by Svetlana Konnikova

 Blue sky, green leaves and smiling sunflower…  When you see this natural beauty, it makes you feel so good and happy, isn’t it?  Today I am not talking about going green. Everybody talks about it today.  What about giving green? Did you ever thought about it?

Giving green has never been easier. Think organic, natural, nutritional products that are produced for us by creative entreprises and ready for us to order them. At first spoil yourself and try some of them. Then go on giving green on the 4th of July.  Surprise your family members and friends with nice natural gifts and show them how much you love and care about them, and appreciate them for who they are.

As Hans Chistian Andersen said once, “To live we need sun, freedom and a small flower.” I can add to his expression that we all really need love, a peaceful sky above our head, and a small sign of attention. Don’t be shy, show your thoughtfullness, attention and affection to dearest people in your life! You’ll feel great about it, and you don’t have to spend lots of money to do that.

I researched numerous products on the Web and made a List of Giving Green Natural Gifts for the 4th of July. These unexpensive and surprising gifts, a bounty of wonderful organic goodies is sure to please everyone’s palate, and can be useful and enjoyable all year around.

Quality organic chocolates that will blow away any of recipients of your gifts. Do you love fudge?

Earth’s Sweet Pleasures makes the highest quality organic gourmet fudge while supporting sustainability of the planet and its inhabitants. The delicious dark chocolate is grown by fair trade farmers in Central and South America.

1. You can choose Rich Rainforest Dark Fudge with walnuts (my favorite!), 8 oz Price: $13.95 or

 2. Rich Rainforest Dark Fudge (no nuts), 8 oz Price: $13.95

 3. Seth Ellis Chocolatier, a Boulder, Colorado artisan Chocolate company, makes the highest integrity chocolate using only organic and natural ingredients. Each hand- decorated chocolate is a miniature piece of art. A delicate creation of fairly traded Ecuadorian chocolate, like these Chocolate Mint Truffles.

4. Smith & Truslow Freshly Ground Organic Herbs

This sure-to-please set is beautifully packaged. 6-jar set of Smith & Truslow freshly ground organic herbs includes: rosemary, basil, thyme, tarragon, parsley and oregano. It is a fresh, flavorful, useful, and classy gift. Price: $39.00

5. Garden in a Bag–Tomato

Imagine picking sweet delicious cherry tomatoes right from the tomato plant that you grew in your windowsill or on your kitchen counter.

This Mini-Tomato Garden-in-a-Bag is a perefect gift for people who love gardening. It contains everything to help you grow a very special dwarf variety of tomato. It has been tasted and proven to produce extra-sweet, red 1 1/2″ fruits when grown inside. The seeds supplied should germinate in 7-10 days. Expect to harvest sweet, delicious tomatoes in about 60 days from germination. Price: $12.00. Buy the Garden in a Bag as is or add extra gifts like organic chocolate.

6. Organic Coffee Break Price: $16.50

Here is a great gift that you can combine together; organic coffee and biscotti. When it’s time for a break during working week or on a holiday , one of the best things ever is a crisp biscotti cookie dipped in hot chocolate. This package contains two smooth Organic Arabica coffee blends, Java Love and Zen Blend with Classic Almond Biscotti, made with organic ingredients in California!

2 ounce Bag of ground Java Love Organic Coffee ; 2 ounce Bag ground Zen Blend Organic Coffee, and 8 ounces Classic Almond Biscotti, made with organic ingredients.

The Java Love coffee made with Indonesian Arabica beans and the Zen Blend with Central American Arabica beans. Both products are outstanding smooth in taste blends. Enjoy a cup of hot gourmet coffee with almonds biscotti which are baked with love and pride by Mother’s Touch Kitchens. Give yourself organic coffee break that revives and refreshes!

And this is not all. All these goodies are packaged in a US made reusable fabric gift bag with pretty coffee-themed print design.

7. I love this natural beverage, Guayaki Yerba Mate Organic and Fair Trade Tea. It is revered as the drink of the Gods. It comes with different flavors: Guayaki Yerba Mate Greener Green (my favorite!); Guayaki Yerba Mate Chai Spice; Guayaki Yerba Mate Chocolate and Guayaki Yerba Mate Pure Empower Mint. Price for each pack: $5.95

For only $5.95 you have a perfect gift for anyone you want to please with your thoughtfullness. In South America, yerba mate has been considered for centuries as “the drink of the Gods.” People there drink it daily for optimum health, sustained energy and mental clarity. Do you know that yerba mate, coffee, tea, kola nut, cocoa and guarana are the six commonly used stimulants everywhere in the world? Yerba mate is recognized as the nature’s most balanced stimulant, delivering both energy and nutrition.

The Paris Scientific Society and the Pasteur Institute in 1964 made a conclusion that “it is difficult to find a plant in any area of the world equal to mate in nutritional value” and confirmed that yerba mate contains “practically all of the vitamins to sustain life.”

8. Napa Valley Winecountry Wildflower Honey. Price: $3.50 for 2 oz. An excellent gift or addition to the Organic Yerba Mate tea.

The flowers of Napa Valley, including delicate white grape flowers, create the tasty nectars that make this honey so delicious. It comes from Marshall Farm’s apiaries at some of Napa Valley finest wineries. There millions of bees forage the nectars from the flowers and grapevines of the most impressive estates, such as Cakebread Cellars, Francis Coppola, Domaine Chandon, Honig, Rudd.

Marshall Farm also have apiaries at the St. Helena campus of the Culinary Institute of America and at the renowned French Laundry’s organic garden. For $3.50 a jar you can have so many presents for people you care about and spoil yourself with a cuppa of steaming Organic Yerba Mate Tea with the best California’s Napa Valley can offer, which is natural, delicious wine country wilfflower honey. What can be better than this healthy and refreshing combination?  Enjoy!

9. Dazed and Infused Gift. Price: $74.00

This set  brings to you all the ingredients for summer salads and dips. Creators of this gift thought of everything to make it a real treasure for you to cherish. There is included recipe card that will help you to make a fabulous fragrant concoction.

Do you know that fresh ground oregano and lemon peel, when infused with creamy mustard in olive oil, and balsamic vinegar, will produce a most enticing salad dressing or a dip for organic, crispy crackers that come with the set.

A re-closeable clear pyramid-shaped bottle is included, too. This attractive gift is wrapped in a canvas bag with a beautuful grape design, which is known as a sign of Welcome. You can use this natural tote when you go grocery shopping and place your food products there instead of using supermarket’s plastic bags. All products in the set are gluten and wheat-free.

The following products are included in Dazed and Infused set:

  • Smith and Truslow Fresh Ground Organic Lemon Peel
  • Smith and Truslow Fresh Ground Organic Oregano
  • True Natural Tastel Organic Creamy Mustard
  • Napa Valley Organic Olive Oil
  • Bionaturae Organic Balsamic Vinegar
  • Mary’s Gone Crackers Original Flavor
  • Clear Re-closeable Pyramid Bottle
  • 100% cotton canvas bag with grapes image 13.25″ (w) x 12″ (h) x 4″ (g) with 15″ mesh handle.

So, make up your mind and choose what you like the most.

Source: Photo Sunflower by Vera Volsanska

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