Some Useful Companies

Here's a short list of some of the non-obvious companies (obvious being Amazon, iTunes, etc) that we have ordered stuff from in order to make this year more comfortable. You might find some of these companies useful whether or not you live in rural Alaska.

Full Circle Farm: This is a CSA from Washington that sends boxes of fresh, organic fruit and veggies to remote areas of Alaska. Every week we get a box of food that we could not get otherwise. It's not cheap and it doesn't always come on the day it is supposed (due to the weather here, not because of them) but it is always awesome.

Azure Standard: This is a bulk health food retailer. They deliver all over the western part of the US and also ship. We ordered most of our dry food from these folks: pounds and pounds of soy beans, almonds, quinoa, etc. The website claims they only ship UPS but they will ship USPS which is far cheaper (and the only option here).

Vegan Essentials: These folks carry all kinds of vegan products: shoes, food, clothes, bath & body stuff, etc. Most importantly they will ship cold and frozen food. We ordered margarine and some soy meat stuff from them.

Fred Meyer Alaska: These guys also ship cold and frozen stuff in Alaska. They tend to take forever to get it out the warehouse but we were able to get frozen fruit for smoothies, veggie burgers and frozen vegetables.

Vegan Chocolate of the Month: This was a birthday gift from S to me. Usually I'm more of dark chocolate and nothing else kind of person. But these chocolates are amazing. They also do non-vegan chocolates.