Stop in Caineville at Mesa Market for straight-from-the-garden organic salads and freshly baked artisan bread from an outdoor stone-hearth oven.

Over 60 organic salads, everything from tuna to tabbouleh, are made fresh daily for take-out or eat-in.

Urth Caffé on Melrose Avenue (310 659 0628; www.urthcaffe.com) is a trendy but hippie hang-out serving organic salads.

Now, those protected fields are being used to grow or raise everything from ginseng and emus to Saskatoon berries and organic salad mixes.

At Whole Foods, 2421 Broadway, not only is the salad bar organic, but it is also kosher.

The organic green salad deserved better than its insipid dressing.

You'll also find organic salads and a few choice pastas.

Food is more healthy than exciting; the slim menu board offers crisp organic salads, home-style pastas and veggie burgers.

For Earthbound Farm, the country's largest producer of organic salads, it all begins in fields here.

The menu features organic salads, low-fat but still juicy burgers, popular Mexican food including some quality guacamole, and plenty of alcohol.