Sunflower Oil Vinaigrette

This is just a basic recipe. Feel free to add fresh herbs, scallions, etc.

Ingredients

• 1 teaspoon dijon mustard
• 2 teaspoons pure maple syrup or honey
• 3 tablespoons apple cider vinegar or white wine vinegar
• ½ cup Driftless Organics sunflower oil
• salt & pepper to taste

Instructions

Combine mustard, vinegar and maple syrup/honey in a small bowl or half pint jar. Mix with a fork. Slowly add sunflower oil while whisking with your fork until emulsified. Add salt & pepper to taste. Serve immediately or store in refrigerator for a couple of weeks.

Sunflower Oil Vinaigrette

This is just a basic recipe. Feel free to add fresh herbs, scallions, etc.

Ingredients

• 1 teaspoon dijon mustard
• 2 teaspoons pure maple syrup or honey
• 3 tablespoons apple cider vinegar or white wine vinegar
• ½ cup Driftless Organics sunflower oil
• salt & pepper to taste

Instructions

Combine mustard, vinegar and maple syrup/honey in a small bowl or half pint jar. Mix with a fork. Slowly add sunflower oil while whisking with your fork until emulsified. Add salt & pepper to taste. Serve immediately or store in refrigerator for a couple of weeks.

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Our mission is to provide all-natural, Non-GMO, unrefined foods and help grow awareness of the health benefits of a health centered diet. All of our products contain  a variety of naturally provided nutrients. Our processes are designed to maintain the highest level of quality and retain as much of the natural vitamins and enzymes as possible. We strive to give you the best opportunity available to put good food in your cupboards and on your table with a focus on quality and service.

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I grew up in the city with a mother that was very health conscious and politically active around how food was produced and the people that cared for it. She taught me how important unprocessed, organically grown food that used no pesticides or additives in the farming and storage was. She showed me how it was done naturally in our vegetable garden and small greenhouse that my father built. The greenhouse was attached right off our kitchen so mom could go straight from soil to table. We were members of the first co-op food store in Seattle and I remember spending many hours attending to the shelves and foods there. 

As a young child I noticed the food tasted different, yet I had no real appreciation for it then. Growing older I ventured out on my own I strayed from the path she laid down. Easy processed foods became a staple for a college kid that wanted to spend all of his free time socializing. It wasn’t until I had a child of my own that I started to pay attention to what I put in his body. I noticed the difference that eating these foods had on his system and how much better it made me feel eating the same way. His mother and I were the beneficiaries of this change as the information and lessons from my mom resurfaced in my head and practices.

Scott is the one with the background in all-natural, sustainable farming. He started with the desire to feed his family better food by feeding his livestock better foods, after all, you are what you eat. After learning all he could about producing his own feed, raising his own livestock for food and growing fresh produce to feed his family he started to think a little more globally. Having grown up on a farm in Ohio, Scott has seen the change in how the agriculture industry worked. How it depleted the nutrients of the soil on farms by focussing too greatly on one crop, leaving behind un-useable earth. How genetically modified organisms, pesticides and other chemicals have affected our people and our planet.

I met Scott several years ago through a high school friend that needed help with marketing healthy, sustainably grown poultry and livestock feed. Scott and I struck up a friendship over food, food production and how our philosophies of eating fresh and unrefined foods helped us, our families, and the ecosystem. Somewhere in the years of discussion and passion we decided to strike out on our own and help as many people feel the way we do as possible. Thus was the beginning of the Existing naturally LLC and the “natural” product line.

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