{"id":1073,"date":"2013-05-04T17:52:39","date_gmt":"2013-05-04T21:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/youthinkwhat.com\/now\/?p=1073"},"modified":"2013-05-08T00:52:44","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T04:52:44","slug":"coming-to-costa-rica-in-june-2013-barefoot-gourmet-organic-food-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youthinkwhat.com\/now\/coming-to-costa-rica-in-june-2013-barefoot-gourmet-organic-food-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming to Costa Rica in June 2013: Barefoot Gourmet, Organic Food Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youthinkwhat.com\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/barefoot1_newsfull_h.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"barefoot1_newsfull_h\" src=\"http:\/\/youthinkwhat.com\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/barefoot1_newsfull_h-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A recent report in the English language Costa Rican online news site, <a title=\"AOL mogul will introduce farm box concept to Costa Rica\/Weekend\/Costa Rica Newspaper, The Tico Times\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ticotimes.net\/Weekend\/AOL-mogul-will-introduce-farm-box-concept-to-Costa-Rica_Friday-May-03-2013\" target=\"_blank\">The Tico Times<\/a>,\u00a0 tells us Barefoot Gourmet founder Andreas Schmidt and his team will launch the company\u2019s new Local Food Network, an online service with its goal to change the way Costa Rican residents eat by connecting consumers directly to organic farmers across the country.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/youthinkwhat.com\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/barefoot1_newsfull_h.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a>Despite Costa Rica\u2019s worldwide image as leader in sustainability and green practices the <a title=\"World Resources Institute|Global Warming, Climate Change, Ecosystems, Sustainable Markets, Good Governance &amp; the Environment\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wri.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">World Resources Institute<\/a>, WRI, provides data that sharply contradicts this image. According WRI to <strong>Costa Rica uses more pesticides in agriculture than any other country in the world<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;Barefoot Gourmet founder Andreas Schmidt and his team will launch the company\u2019s new Local Food Network, an online service with its goal to improve the quality of foods available to Costa Rican residents.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Schmidt, former CEO for AOL Europe, was also a co-founder of Napster the online music service. He says after the loss of its legal battles thus causing its demise, he decided to take a break from twenty-five years of working to sail around the world. That was five years ago when he first visited Costa Rica. Two years later he and his wife, who he met when she was the manager of an\u00a0eco-resort in the jungle, decided to settle in Costa Rica.<\/p>\n<p>The Schmidts found it difficult to find any fresh or organic food in the Nicoya Peninsula; as a result they developed the Barefoot Gourmet concept. It&#8217;s\u00a0 a system designed to help bring change to one of the biggest problems faced by the inhabitants of the country: healthy food, nutritious food that doesn\u2019t destroy the earth.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned folks&#8230;this looks like a very promising enterprise!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent report in the English language Costa Rican online news site, The Tico Times,\u00a0 tells us Barefoot Gourmet founder Andreas Schmidt and his team will launch the company\u2019s new Local Food Network, an online service with its goal to change the way Costa Rican residents eat by connecting consumers directly to organic farmers across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[59,1],"tags":[47,37,141,268,27,269,67,16,106,140],"class_list":["post-1073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-and-beverage","category-you-think-so","tag-agriculture","tag-business","tag-costa-rica","tag-food-and-beverage","tag-health","tag-human-rights","tag-international-politics","tag-mental-health","tag-nutrition","tag-organic-foods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youthinkwhat.com\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youthinkwhat.com\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youthinkwhat.com\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youthinkwhat.com\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youthinkwhat.com\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1073"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/youthinkwhat.com\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1081,"href":"https:\/\/youthinkwhat.com\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions\/1081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youthinkwhat.com\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youthinkwhat.com\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youthinkwhat.com\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}