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The new 24,000-square-foot market is located next door to the old space in a newly-erected, LEED-certified building inside the village center. In addition to offering more room for David's existing offerings, the new store will house a revamped deli cafe with indoor and outdoor seating.

Nutritional studies and an increase in consumer knowledge have put the benefits of organic and all-natural foods in the national spotlight. If simpler ingredients are proven to be healthier for humans, should we consider the same standards for our pets? Bark! Pawsitive Pet Food thinks so.

From fruits and vegetables to meat and cheese, organic foods are in high demand. But what about organic highlights?

The Natural Products Expo East 2014 in Baltimore, opening Wednesday, is billed as the largest trade show on the East Coast devoted to goods made from ingredients found in nature treated with relatively little processing. The category that the industry claims is growing more than eight percent a year includes people and pet food, diet supplements, cosmetics and grooming products.

Harford County farmers are taking steps to protect the environment while running a healthy, thriving farm.

Enzo Fikru and Sarah Dunn will open the first vegan and vegetarian restaurant in Catonsville on June 30.

Walmart is moving into organic foods with the relaunch of the Wild Oats brand, the retailer announced Thursday

Catonsville Cooperative Market is a group with a vision to bring natural and organic foods to its members.

JHU is one of 19 colleges or universities in the U.S. to join the Real Food Challenge, a burgeoning campaign to encourage institutions to buy at least 20 percent of their food from small nearby farmers and butchers by the year 2020.

Besides giving a boost to start-ups, the show is a welcome start to the fall convention season for the city

Sesame Noodles with Broccoli

Relay Foods is one of several grocery delivery services operating in the Baltimore area, each with a different niche. Giant-affiliated Peapod home-delivers some 12,000 items that can be found in Giant stores to nearly 400,000 customers. Hometown Harvest, based in Frederick, delivers locally grown produce and is adding meats, dairy products and even salmon.

Does eliminating specific foods from the diet, such as sugar or wheat, provide health benefits?

Susan Heisler, a retired grocery store merchandiser and recreational pool player, died of lung cancer March 3 at the Chesapeake Hospice's Mandrin Center in Harwood. The Glen Burnie resident was 55.

Across Baltimore, colleges and universities are working to revitalize the neighborhoods surrounding campuses – pushing development in dilapidated areas, advising community projects and organizing programs to improve education, health care and even housing for nearby residents.

Organic foods don't lead to better health over the long-run American Academy of Pediatrics finds

Organic and natural foods and products companies display their products at the Natural Products East Expo in Baltimore

If organically grown foods aren't healthier to eat, why pay more for them?

Laurel Health Foods, a family-owned business in Laurel for four decades, has moved from Bowie Road

Should you choose the organic strawberries versus conventional ones? Both are bright and colorful at the perfect ripeness and provide vitamins, antioxidants and fiber while being low in sodium.

As a supplier of organic produce to AIDA Bistro & Wine Bar last summer, John Dove felt no pressure to stick to a rigid delivery schedule.

Meet Nick Hyson, manager of the new Giant store in Hampden. He came over from the Rotunda, knows many of his customers by name, and is a tireless, youthful, engaging, rise-through-the-ranks kind of guy, who says he has not had a day off in three weeks — "by choice."