GO. Go shopping. Go get the best organic produce. Go drive and create emissions. Go use gas. Go wait in the grocery store line. Go and miss time with your loved ones. Go and miss a call you were waiting for. You get the point.
So to COMBAT all this GO, GO, GO… call G.O. — Guerrilla Organics!
I met Mark Deutsch and Martha Matsuda in around 2003. About one year prior, their business Guerrilla Organics indeed started organically. Mark Deutsch began this company in 2002 when he moved to San Francisco from St. Louis. Going to a local organic foods store to stock his refrigerator, Mark was shocked at the cost ($200!) for two bags of groceries which contained mostly produce. Going to San Francisco’s Wholesale Farmer’s Market, Mark bought something affordable – a box of potatoes. He shared his potatoes with housemates and friends, who told other friends, who wanted in on the deal; someone else asked if he delivered. Thus was born Guerrilla Organics – a small organic produce delivery business that still operates guerrilla-style… but now in Oakland, Berkeley, SF, Daly City, & Pacifica http://guerrillaorganics.com/html/boxes.html
The cool thing for me, personally, is that Mark invented and patented the most amazing musical instrument, called a Bazantar. He plays mesmerizing, heady, transformative music that can deliver you into a new consciousness. And Martha shares her passions in a unique and fascinating art form — Butoh dancing. So they support their performing arts habits by slinging local, organic produce. They are SUPER consistent in their organic produce delivery and they are particularly enlightened and spiritually developed people… made it a very easy decision for me to switch to them from my previous “Box” delivery service. I think participating with arts and cultural events is an important Longevity Practice. It can re-connect us with all of humanity, and also with our Purpose. And gives us a vehicle to bond more deeply with our loved ones and friends.
Can you imagine how cool I felt when I realized that my organic produce delivery purchases would create proceeds that help 2 cutting edge community artists practice their crafts in the arts? AND that staying with their services meant that I get an “organic” way to continue developing my own connection with that kind of people?
YUMM.