When spring comes, you can't help but appreciate the wonders of Mother Nature. So it's fitting that spring also brings a time to appreciate mothers. Why not celebrate Mom and Mother Nature with a natural Mother's Day?

Organic, green, and fair trade products are becoming more popular, so it won't be hard to find something to please mom.

 

• Treat mom to breakfast in bed. Serve waffles, French toast, scones or coffeecake as breakfast-in-bed. Top them with delicious, flavored butter pats made from organic butter. Certified organic butter, like the butter from Organic Valley, is produced by family farmers without antibiotics, synthetic hormones or pesticides. The animals are raised humanely and given certified organic feed, and pastures are also certified organic.
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• Getting mom organic flowers ensures that the blooms you give haven't been treated with pesticides. Choosing locally grown flowers or potted plants - over those shipped from another state or country--supports local producers while reducing transportation costs and emissions.
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• Mom deserves to be pampered. So how about a natural spa treatment at a local salon? You can also put together a gift basket made up of lotions, soaps and scents with organic ingredients.
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• Fair trade clothing and jewelry comes from artisans all over the world. Mom gets a beautiful gift, and the artisans get paid a fair wage.
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• Put mom's breakfast on a tray made from bamboo, a fast-replenishing grass, along with a pretty soy candle and organic cotton napkin.

So take care of your mom and Mother Nature by celebrating Mother's Day the natural way.