Red Valley Natural Foods offers panoply of organic options [Video]

Red Valley Natural Foods owners Jordan and Vianna Hobbs were spurred to start their business after several years of gravitating toward healthier options in their own lives.

“We have been eating organic, as a family, for the past few years now,” Vianna Hobbs told The Journal just before the store’s opening in October 2023 at 600 Water St. “And we have just discovered how well it’s been on our health, and how lacking the Siouxland area is in those particular products, and how hard it is to find certain things. So we decided, just this past February, to start this new journey, to basically open this organic grocery store.”

Their plan was to offer meat, dairy, vegetables, fruits, soap, tea, flour, sugar, herbs and seasonings and other staples. Since opening, they’ve branched out in a number of ways.

Sioux City Chef Paula Khatchatourian came on in January to offer an …