For one week, I agreed that I would purchase only organic groceries for my family and report to Country Living on how it went.

Mr. Sobsey had a notion to combine organic groceries with specialty items like exotic coffees, artisanal cheeses and oils, cookies, nuts, and the like.

He once lived in Switzerland and worked as a street magician, returning in 1981 to New Hampshire, where he later opened an organic grocery called Evergrain Natural Foods.

There is already an organic grocery called Green Earth Natural Foods Market, Ms. Lohneiss said.

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Billy, an old hippie with a history of drug arrests who runs an organic grocery, is an old friend of Sharon Solarz and a former client of Jim's.

Wal-Mart is now the biggest retailer of organic groceries, carrying, among other products, Stonyfield.

It's a bright, well-stocked market with a good selection of organic groceries, dairy products, frozen foods, pet food and baby food, and a limited assortment of fresh produce.

There are food co-ops, where membership fees and volunteer labor buy democracy and organic (and often bargain-priced) groceries.

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