RAWGANIC - A NEW WAY TO SHOP
STRAIGHT OUT OF DARTFORD BY SHANNON RANDALL
even cleaning products. As well as this, they bring in a variety of foods from other small local businesses that they try to also sell on with zero waste. Kim loves to partner up with other small businesses and says she is “always on the lookout for new partnerships.” If you’ve never been to a package free food store before, the idea is to bring your own reusable packaging to store all the food you pick up whilst in there. Bring some tupperware or a netted bag or even just a reusable sainsburys bag and go crazy. Another option -and my favourite- is the oat milk dispenser. Bring in a glass bottle I think it is safe to say that eco- or grab one in-store if you have yet friendly ways of living are on the to get one and fill up on all the oat rise recently which is brilliant milk you could possibly want. considering how long we really have left to save the planet (reports To give people a better idea of what vary from saying we have 18 products Rawganic sells, I asked Kim months to 25 years - whatever what the best sellers have been so the correct figure may be, it isn’t far. “Our most popular products at looking pretty). So, that is why in the moment are the local honey today’s piece I am choosing to focus sourced from Ditton in Maidstone, on the new Dartford Highstreet our organic eggs from Fairseat Farm store, ‘Rawganic’ opened by and our cheese selection from various the owner of eco-friendly hair parts of Kent. I honestly thought salon, ‘Raw’, Kim Goodger. the zero waste dispensary would If you are looking to cut down on your plastic waste from food, then Rawganic is the place for you. Raw has a zero waste dispensary for products like pasta, beans and
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about the planet and being as sustainable as possible as well as nutrition and knowing where my food has come from. My existing business [hair Salon, Raw] has become more and more sustainable over the last 3 years and we have made some major changes in how we operate in order to be more eco-friendly. Secondly…not being able to work for almost 10 months of 2020/2021 took its toll on me and my family. I was a single parent and living with my sister who suddenly became a widow at the start of lockdown also with a child. So I thought I needed to do something in order to be able to work if another lockdown occurred. What better business to start than a food business?” With plastic bags taking around 1020 years to decompose and plastic bottles taking up to 450 years, plastic waste is a massive contributor to climate destruction. Who can blame consumers for buying plastic when it is literally in or around every single food product they buy? Well, with shops like Rawganic, that excuse can no longer hold. “Our shop is super important for the Dartford community as there isn’t anything like it around and it’s giving the locals an opportunity to reduce their plastic and food waste by only buying what they need and reusing their packaging. From a nutritional point of view it’s encouraging people to shop organic, know where their food has come from and reduce our carbon footprint.”
So, pop down to Rawganic this week and do your part to support local be the most popular but it’s taking businesses and to save the planet! a little more to get people involved.” Instagram: rawganickent When asking Kim about why she Address: 4 Market Pl, Dartford DA1 1EX decided to open Rawganic, she said, “first and foremost I’m passionate
