Mama Earth Organics

I customized my basket which included living arugula, wild baby leeks and portobello mushrooms — all delicious. They carry nice organic add-​ons like chipotle kale chips (awesome) and the cowgirl cookie by Earth + City. Village Juicery items are also great, giving a well rounded, if not small, selection of healthy eats. The customer service is generally prompt and excellent.

I got my second Large Juicing Basket plus some additional items. Everything was perfect and in perfect condition. Minor substitution of Broccolette for Broccoli was just fine. Check out my photos packed and unpacked.
1 Large Juicing Basket (as customized) ($ 60.00)
1 Beets, Red 2lb (ON)
2 Celery (US)
1 Collard Greens (ON)
2 Cucumber, English (ON)
2 Kale, Green (ON)
1 Kale, Black (ON)
1 Pepper, Green (ON)
2 Spinach, bunch (ON)
5 Apple, Gala (BC)
1 Bananas, Fairtrade 1.5lb (EC/​PR)
3 Pear, Bosc (WA/​BC)
Additional Items ($ 22.86):
1 Broccoli (US) $ 4.45
1 Carrots, Juicer 2lb (ON) $ 2.45
1 Carrots, Rainbow bunched 2+lb (ON) $ 2.60
1 Pepper, Green (ON) $ 4.50
1 Bananas, Fairtrade 1.5lb (EC/​PR) $ 3.46
2 Lemon (MEX) $ 2.66
2 Pear, Bosc (WA/​BC) $ 2.74
HST $ 0.00
Total $ 82.86

Been using Mama Earth Organics for a year now and we do most of our groceries with them (i.e. Vegetables, selection of fruits, milk, eggs, yoghurt and occasional speciality items).
Great customer service, super responsive and eager to resolve issues
Only downside to the service is the basket gets boring over time. Like having beets, fiddle or squash for 4 – 6 weeks in a row. You can add $ 2 to customize your basket choice but usually within the price range the alternatives are limited. Sometimes the compromise for vegetable is 1 avocado or 2 – 3 fruits When replacing items like Bok Choy, most of the time I am only allowed 0.5 lbs
Would be nice if they can do meats as well so it can become my full organic /​delivery grocer

Great service… fresh food… only downfall is the limited items that you can get for groceries. I really loved getting my baskets each week but due to their cut back on the gluten free products I had to put my order on hold. I hope they bring in more gluten free products and bread as well as the organic tomato sauces they were absolutely delicious. I continue to watch the website and look forward to reopening my account.

Going on our 3^rd delivery and so far I’m very pleased. Food tastes great, if you don’t like something don’t worry because their customer service is the best! They will credit you and replace the item the next time around. I agree with other reviewers-it’s so great getting fresh, amazing tasting organic produce delivered right to your door and to know you are supporting local organic farmers and not GMOs. Now all I have to do is buy the meat and a few other items from the grocery store. Having a basket delivered saves us so much time shopping now. The other major benefit is that the produce tastes amazing. I recommend trying some of their add-​ons, so far we’ve tried the free-​range eggs from Kawartha, Honey, Brioche bread, chocolate chip bagels and chocolate almond cookies. Everything is wonderful. My fav is Brickstreet Bakery Brioche which is now on my ‘standing order’. I hope they get more add-​ons in the future, the more options the better :)

I will never go back to normal grocery shopping. I really don’t have enough good things to say about this company. I can’t imagine life without my weekly bin. It’s always fresh and on time. I recommend this service to everyone! :)

Edit: This review is based on my experience this past (September/​October/​November 2014).
I signed-​up for this popular delivery service because everyone has great things to say about them.
My review is specifically regarding the large fruit basket and not any other baskets.
I must say, their customer service is exemplary, my emails were always answered within a couple of hours :)
My problem is that I kept on receiving bad navel oranges, they were tiny and almost green and dry inside. The customer service representative offered to give me free oranges and again, the oranges were bad. They admitted that there’s been some problems with that specific supplier.
Next they offered to give me a 1 large basket for free when I asked them to cancel all deliveries, which was very nice and I thought that if the free basket had good oranges, we’ll resume the delivery. Guess what? The complimentary basket arrived and the oranges that were included were really bad. again :(
We eat a lot of oranges, it’s a staple in our household.
Even though I appreciate their offers of free baskets, complimentary fruit and prompt responses to my emails, I still got bad quality product in the end.
If you are one of the owners who is reading my review, please know that I’m still hoping to give your service one more chance in the future, I really like the fact that your deliveries were very regular and drivers were very polite, it’s nice to get organics delivered to a neighbourhood where I simply can’t buy them at the moment.

I started ordering from Mama Earth 2 months ago and have been very happy with the produce. The vegetables (especially the kale!) always arrive fresh and often in bigger quantities than what you would find in the organic section of thetypical supermarket.
The box always comes with a few recipes printed on the back of your invoice, which have totally inspired me to try different flavour combinations and ways of cooking.
I did a fair bit of research before choosing Mama Earth, and one of the things that won me over was their super user-​friendly website. Each grocery item is marked clearly to let customers know where the produce is from, along with storage tips. The sale section is also a fun place to check out with different items marked down each week.
I will be sticking with this service for a good while. It’s a great way to get healthy, to explore different foods, and to support local and organic farming!

I love this service. The vegetables are always fresh, the service is always timely, and the quality is great. Getting a bin every week feels like opening a gift, and the service has led me to try a bunch of new recipes I’d never have looked at twice, before. This is a great way to eat healthier food from local farmers. If you want to incorporate more fresh fruit and vegetables into your diet, this is how you do it.

I really enjoy Mama Earth service and product. The produce is fresh and plentiful. I find I need to skip a week every 2 – 3 weeks to use everything before I get new stuff and I’ve learned that unless you are willing to look up a recipe for a vegetable that is out of your regular repertoire I would recommend swapping it out for something you know you’ll use. The waste I’ve had always seems to come from not using something a little foreign to me. All in all I would recommend Mama Earth.

I love mama earth organics! Their products are fantastic. Fruits & veggies are delicious. There is always a wide selection of produce and we can make changes if needed. They deliver to your door and there is no service delivery fee. Their prices are affordable. I like to know where my food comes from and they work with farms worldwide and with Canada to provide us with organic produce. I care about what I eat and knowing that my food is 100% organic and where it comes from, makes me feel great about what I am eating.
Suzana

I decided to give them another try. But still like Wanigan best. Mama Earth requires a minimum of $ 25.00 produce for them to deliver to you. But with Wanigan I just need to order $ 25.00 of anything they carry. Also, I don’t eat much bread or tofu anymore so a lot of their items isn’t stuff that I want. I wish they had carried meats & fish. But I guess that’s too difficult for them to ensure freshness. I will have to check out fooddel.

I’m on Month #2 with Mama Earth. The produce and choices provided to you are fantastic. They deliver to my work and it all comes home in my back pack. It’s amazing how much fruit and veg you tend to eat when it’s fresh and flavourful.
I now get my coffee beans and butter delivered too, hello time saver. It’s so much easier having it all come at once and then it’s always in your fridge. I look at my order for the following week, decide what I plan on cooking and add anything I need to my basket.
The customer service has to be discussed too, outstanding, incredibly helpful and quick to respond with questions or if you are concerned about something. I get the $ 25 basket but with extras it varies from $ 35 — $ 40 a week, which fits right in my budget.
I am very grateful to my friends Agnes and Paul for advising me about this service.
Mama Earth you are amazing
p. s. try the raw honey it’s amazing…

I have been using Mama Earth Organics for over a year. I have tried a few other organic food deliveries and in my opinion, Mama Earth has been the best by far. It’s a wonderful service, moderately priced, easy to place an order and customize your basket as well as make changes if necessary. There is always a fairly wide selection of produce and you can add other items such as: dairy (Stirling butter!), bakery (St. Urbain Bagel, St. John’s and Brick Street.), Ying Ying Tofu, Remarkable Bean Coffee and pantry items, with new products being added. The quality of produce is awesome! In the rare instance you get something that doesn’t look too good, Heather and the team have been happy to credit or replace the item at no charge the following week.
Their priorities, as listed on their website (
):
Taste: Comes in above everything and is the only necessary element. It must taste excellent and be as fresh as possible.
Local: Search out and find locally sourced food if it’s available.
Organic Required for all produce. For other items, make the choice on a case by case basis based on an evaluation of all four variables.
Small Scale Food Production: Our preference.
Fun bonus, they include several recipe ideas with your weekly invoice.
One of my favourite items to order are the fresh, local, organic, free-​range farm eggs!

We signed up with Mama Earth in September 2012 and we are very pleased with the products, selection, prices and most of all their service. You can pick a basket, change and add to your basket. So pleased that I tell everyone to sign up and the results will be that you will only feel better knowing you are only eating fresh organic food. Quality fresh food delivered. Skip a week if you are on vacation too.
Thank you Mama Earth! Excellent product guarantee!
I spend very little time in the grocery store. Oh try the spelt bread too ;)

We signed up with mama earth in early May and are very impressed thus far. You can add to your order, customize your basket, even blacklist your most hated veggies. We have never had a problem with delivery and items are very fresh. In our basket we receive tips and recipes for not so common produce. We have tried so many veggies we have never tried before thanks to mama earth! We have also been able to make lots of baby food with what we have received. Some fruits and veggies are so hard to find organic in the supermarket but mama earth has a fantastic selection.
We have also tried the bagels and the tofu — great stuff!
Also important, customer service is fantastic. I ordered chocolate chip bagels one week. They sent a note apologizing that St Urbain had no chocolate chip so they gave us a different variety at no charge. Also, wording on one of their tofu products was unclear and what I ended up with was different from what I was expecting. I dropped them a line to suggest a change in the product description and quickly received a reply back with an apology and a credit to my account. Like I said, fantastic customer service.

I just signed up with Mama Earth about a month ago, having been with another service previously. I have to say that I’m really impressed with them. The produce is of top-​notch quality; I have yet to receive anything that wasn’t absolutely fresh. The selection is also extremely good; it’s rare that I have to make a trip to the grocery store for fresh fruits and vegetables anymore because Mama Earth has most of what I need. The food is delicious – they sent the most incredibly luscious and juicy grapefruit the other day, and the MacIntosh apples are tart and tasty. And for $ 45 a week (the family basket), I have enough to last through the week.
Mama Earth shows up reliably, about the same time each week, and there’s never anything missing from my order (quite a problem with the previous service). As I don’t live that close to a grocery store, I really appreciate the fact that I can depend on their showing up and delivering exactly what I ordered.
I’ve been buying some of the non-​produce items as well, and just today sampled their organic eggs from the Kawarthas. Very impressive! They tasted much fresher than the standard grocery store eggs.
They are really doing a superb job of serving their customers.

I have been receiving organic goodies from Mama Earth since April of this year and I’m thrilled! They are the only organic food delivery service to Markham that I know of so far. I am very happy with the quality of the produce and the selection of other items. They are very customer service oriented and thoughtful, eg. they will deliver a little later in the day on hot days so the bin stays outside for a shorter time. They are friendly, always return emails promptly and answer any questions I have. Recently they were unable to procure one of the items I had ordered but they provided me with a perfectly reasonable substitution and threw in an extra item without me ever asking. They treat their customers well and I would definitely recommend them to everyone.

I am completely hooked on the Organic delivery services. Every Wednesday, I have an entire bin of fresh organic fruits and veggies waiting for me when I get home. I am now picking up odd things here and there (meat, seafood, bread), and only visiting the grocery store once or twice a month to pick up pantry staples.
We started with the $ 55 family size bin, and downgraded to the couples bin for $ 35 a week. The $ 55 would last a couple two weeks if they ate out a couple of meals. Check out the sample baskets on their website to see just how much food it is. A couple would each get a fruit to bring to work each day, and there is enough for two or three full meals or soups. The add-​ons help, I usually have some onions or garlic added to my order.
If you know how to cook its a bonus, as you will be exited by the more «unique» vegetables like black kale, swiss chard. If you don’t, they provide a recipe for any more foreign offerings.
You can add, change, cancel your orders anytime on line. You can also have the payments come directly off of your credit card.
The quality of the produce is fantastic, as is the customer service. I have used a different service in the past, and I like Mama Earth better.
High quality produce, unbelievable convenience. Recommended.

It’s an organic extravaganza. At least every Wednesday that is. Mama Earth is a fresh food delivery service that is changing the way I eat. It’s like a choose your own adventure at every meal. Blood oranges for breakfast, and rainbow chard for dinner the possibilities are endless.
For between $ 25, $ 35 and $ 45 you can have small, medium, or large bin of produce delivered to your door. The fruits and vegetables are certified organic as well as free trade and are in season. And for a mere $ 2 more you can customize your fruit basket. Alongside the delicious vegetables you can add other organic goodies like honey and cheese. However, while the vegetables are relatively inexpensive the other add-​ons are slightly pricey.
Bottom line… this local live food delivery service is rocking my world and my waist line.