Vickery's Glenwood Park Goes Green

Vickery's Glenwood Park has gone green by offering a sustainable menu that includes all natural beef and poultry, and a wine list that features several organic juices. The restaurant has also moved to reduce their waste by switching to 100 percent biodegradable to-go cups that are made from corn instead of traditional plastic in addition to 100 percent biodegradable silverware and to-go boxes as opposed to the typical non-biodegradable styrofoam containers commonly used in most restaurants.

"While the green movement continues to stay to at the forefront of consumer consciousness, the idea is only practiced on a limited basis at the local restaurant level due to financial and logistical constraints," says restaurant owner Karen Ney. "We are hoping that we can lead by example at Vickery's Glenwood Park."
By using all natural chicken and Niman Ranch all natural beef products, it ensures the animals were humanely treated, never given any hormones or antibiotics, raised without the use of confinement farms and fed with 100% vegetarian feeds. All of the Niman Ranch products are pasture raised on sustainable, U.S. family farms. Vickery's also offers a selection of organic, pesticide free wines, some of which use lady bugs to control pest infestation at their vineyards in lieu of dangerous pesticides.

Vickery's Glenwood Park is located at 933 Garrett Street in the heart of the recent Glenwood Park development. It is a green community that harvests its own water from storm and well water for landscaping, and through energy efficient design will save 1.3 megawatts of power per year, which is the conservational equivalent of removing 243 cars off of the roads of Atlanta annually.

For more information about Vickery's, visit www.vickerys.com.