The Fitness Craze of Plogging: What You Need to Know About This Eco-Friendly Exercise

Plogging, a new hobby/exercise originating from Sweden (plocka upp), is the combination of jogging while picking up litter. This new eco-conscious exercise began in 2016, benefitting not only the body, but the planet’s health. This craze grew into a cultural connector, with the UK, Finland, Australia, Italy, India, Canada, and the US joining in. Jogging has taken on a new purpose, shedding light on global waste, and giving us the chance to rewrite the future of our planet.

Reasons to Love Lifeway Organic

Green bottles Here at Lifeway, we care about our carbon footprint just as much as we care about creating delicious probiotic products for you and your family. This is why we switched our Organic kefir bottles to a more environmentally-friendly packaging called green polyethylene, a material that is made of sugarcane, a renewable resource. This […]

Why You Should Eat Those Ugly Fruits and Veggies

The average American throws away 36 pounds of food a month, according to the USDA. That’s enough to fill the 90,000-seat Rose Bowl stadium with foods – much of it perfectly good, nutritious stuff. So why do we toss it? Maybe that banana has a few too many bruises. Or that chunk of cheese has something […]

Keeping it Green in 2015

Green has always been one of our favorite colors (along with Lifeway blue and white, of course). We’re conscious of the environmental impact our business makes and continually assess our manufacturing practices to make sure we’re as clean and lean as we can be. We firmly believe that Lifeway Kefir is good for more than just […]

Word to Your Mother – Happy Earth Day from Lifeway Foods

Four months into the new year comes Earth Day – a great time to reflect on the healthy, green changes you may have made as part of your New Year’s resolution, and to find new ways to preserve our natural resources. Today we thought we would talk a little bit about the phrase “reduce, reuse, […]