About Us
Championing Natural Foods for 30 years!
FoodWorks is proud to serve the Connecticut shoreline in Guilford and Old Saybrook. Our stores carry an outstanding selection of organic produce, grocery, frozen, and bulk items, as well as vitamins & supplements, natural health & beauty care products, pet food & treats, kitchen gadgets, glassware, books, gifts, and more.
We also have a full service juice bar with fresh juices and smoothies; a selection of made to order hot sandwiches and a delicious selection of grab-and-go meals including gluten free and raw options.
Shopping with us makes it easy to maintain your Vegetarian, Vegan, Wheat & Gluten Free, Raw Food, or Paleo diet.
At FoodWorks we also work to support our local communities and donate to non-profit groups that serve the world such as Green Peace, Doctors without Borders, Public Land Trust, Organic Farming, and more. We are committed to working to help make our world a better place.
We are also dedicated to doing our best to ensure that natural foods are accessible to all, and to that end, we offer a senior discount of 15% off all items 7-days per week. We also have a Frequent Shopper, Health & Beauty, Vitamin and Juice Cards, which provides for cash off after 10 purchases.
FoodWorks Natural Market was founded in 1992 by Ralph and Bonnie Johnson in Guilford, CT.
Ralph Johnson became interested in natural foods in the 1970s and started his first business delivering natural foods directly to homes in New York City in 1976. Although that business was unsustainable due to gas shortages, Ralph went one to work at a number of different natural foods stores in New York City before he and Bonnie purchased FoodWorks Natural Market in 1992. The first store was located at 1055 Boston Post Road in Guilford and was expanded a few years later. A second location in Old Saybrook was opened in 1996. Today FoodWorks has two locations in Guilford and Old Saybrook, CT.
Ralph’s vision was to help people discover the joy of eating good, clean food and to make natural foods as accessible as possible to the community. He strove to ensure that the products sold at FoodWorks were the cleanest possible and that customers could find variety with an emphasis on local and small batch products.
Ralph passed away in August 2019, but FoodWorks continues to be a family run business and his legacy of eating well and consciously lives on.
“Awesome selection! Found all kinds of healthy, organic, non-gmo, and gluten free snacks! The workers are next level considerate and kind!”
— Anastasia White