Green B.E.A.N. Delivery Gets Healthy
One local woman offers delivery of health-worthy foods through her new service called Green B.E.A.N. (Biodynamic, Education, Agriculture, Nutrition) Delivery.

photo courtesy of Green B.E.A.N. Delivery

Green B.E.A.N. Deliveryis changing up the way you do your grocery shopping in the Cincinnati area. The organic food service business offers home delivery at a competitive price, compared to the supermarkets where you typically pick up your healthy foods. Not only are they offering competitive prices, but they also provide a wide range of variety when choosing your organic foods.

If you want to order from Green B.E.A.N. Delivery, you can decide to be healthy for less than what it costs to eat fast food every day. The minimum order for home delivery is $35, with no delivery fee. Thanks to the free delivery, you can get everything you need with prices that are "competitive with any major health food grocery store." As a member of B.E.A.N. Delivery, you can "customize delivery orders, schedule online and cancel the service at any time."

Not only is it focused on local and sustainable products, but "300+ grocery products" are available in any given week. B.E.A.N. Delivery is making "sustainable and healthy food convenient, affordable and accessible to the Greater Cincinnati area." Not only is there a market in Cincinnati, B.E.A.N. also has markets in Indianapolis, Columbus and Louisville. Each of these markets has a warehouse located within the cities, which helps to "create local jobs and provide an access point for local farmers and artisans." Not only is B.E.A.N. providing healthy food for the surrounding areas, it's also helping out the rebuilding of the economy by creating jobs and opportunities for those who live in the Cincinnati area.

With the help of creating jobs, B.E.A.N. is supporting local farmers. They "provide as much local food as possible in the growing season, and have the most extensive local and regional network of farms available in the Midwest." So not only are local farmers being supported, but farmers throughout the entire Ohio Valley are being supported by B.E.A.N.

Once the winter seasons impede upon us, they are still able to get fresh produce to their customers faster than "conventional grocery stores because of their direct distribution lines from the producers." Because the winter months are so cold, however, they must "stretch sourcing out during winter months, but operations are very efficient and allow for quick turn-around to their members." Fresh produce is the best produce you can get because it not only tastes better but because it has "more nutrients available to the consumer."

By choosing B.E.A.N., customers are getting better, healthier food. Socially, the company "is set up to support local family farms and add a convenient way for community members to support local economy and the growth of local and sustainable agriculture."

Not only do customers of B.E.A.N. get to avoid the dreaded trip to the grocery store, but the company "provides only healthy products, leaving members with only healthy choices." By shopping with B.E.A.N., there's no pressure to pick up that pack of muffins or brownies tempting you. The product is dropped on your doorstep, letting you avoid the luring snare of the snack aisle.

B.E.A.N. does nearly everything, "stopping just short of cooking the product for you." On its blog, B.E.A.N. provides recipes and nutrition tips to help you get the most out of your products. B.E.A.N. is going to provide customers with "better eating habits and protect them from impulse buys at the grocery store." Eating healthy is also going to make you feel and look more healthy; B.E.A.N. offers several testimonials of customers who lost weight when they chose to start shopping with them. This isn't a diet being offered to customers; it's healthy eating habits that change a "family or individual's approach to food" and eventually becomes a new way of life.

Currently, B.E.A.N. is focusing on the agricultural side of the company. In 2011, they started The Feel Good Farm, which is "a 60-acre organic farm located just north of Indianapolis" and in the Spring of 2012, they plan to cultivate 50 acres north of Cincinnati in Mason. They've also got more surprises in store for the Cincinnati area, but you're going to have to stay tuned for those goodies.

Since B.E.A.N. started in the summer of 2007, the company has donated more than 100 tons of produce to Midwest food banks. They firmly believe giving back is a responsibility as a sustainable food business.

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