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Michael Twer
Delilah Home

Only Organic has started a new Q&A series highlighting Organic Pioneers throughout the industry. An area of the industry often overlooked is textiles. To shine a light on that industry we have in...

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Marci Zaroff
EcoFashion Corp

Only Organic has started a new Q&A series highlighting Organic Pioneers throughout the industry. In our efforts to bring more attention to organic textiles this week we are interviewing organic p...

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Jesse Laflamme
Pete and Gerry’s Organics

Only Organic has started a new Q&A series highlighting Organic Pioneers throughout the industry. In our efforts to bring more attention to organic food during this time we are featuring an interv...

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Sarah Goldberger
Lord Jameson

Introducing Lord Jameson, a new organic brand partner of Only Organic! We are excited to introduce this new brand to you today with an Organic Pioneer Q&A. Lord Jameson is an organic dog treat co...

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Lundberg Family Farms
Lundberg Family

Lundberg Family Farms traces it’s roots to 1937, when Albert and Frances Lundberg moved to California from Nebraska. Albert witnessed the ravages of the Dustbowl that resulted in poor soil manageme...

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Kamut International
Bob Quinn

Over 40 years ago, Bob Quinn moved back to the family farm in north central Montana and embarked on a path that would lead him on a mission to completely change farming and how we look at where our ...

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Beetnik
David Perkins

The founders of Beetnik always enjoy time around the kitchen table, whether it’s celebrating one of life’s milestones or enjoying a weeknight dinner together. Food has been at the center of cele...

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Pacific Foods

When Pacific Foods was founded back in 1987, we chose to do things differently. We carefully source every ingredient as locally as possible and from trusted growers who are committed to earth-friend...

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Stephen Williamson & JC Hanley
Forager Project

Forager Project is an organic, plant-based California crafted food company established in 2013 by Stephen Williamson and JC Hanley. A father and stepson who share a passion for delicious food. They b...

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Ocho Candy
Scott Kucirek & Denis Ring

"Why can’t anybody make great tasting organic candy bars? That was the question weighing on Denis Ring’s mind. Being a natural food expert, he was certain it was just a matter of time before a de...

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Traditional Medicinals
Drake Sadler

In 1974, community activist Drake Sadler and fourth-generation herbalist Rosemary Gladstar launched Traditional Medicinals, a medicinal herbal tea company. With the goal of reviving herbalism in Nort...

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One Degree Organic Foods

One Degree believes in the connection between healthy soil, healthy plants, and healthy people. The family is passionate about clean, nourishing foods. And they believe that you deserve 100% transpar...

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Handsome Brook Farm

Handsome Brook Farm was founded in 2007 at a small bed and breakfast in Franklin, NY with a flock of 5 hens. Almost immediately, guests started to praise the high quality and exceptional taste of th...

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Dave’s Killer Bread

Dave’s Killer Bread is the pioneer of organic seeded breads, and the #1 selling brand of organic bread in America.  With great taste and killer texture, Dave’s Killer Bread is always USDA organi...

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The Laflamme Family
Pete & Gerry’s Organic Eggs

When predatory factory farms tried to run the family farm out of business, the Laflamme family turned to organic as a way to survive. Twenty-five years later, one of the first organic egg farms in the country is now also the largest organic egg brand in the country. But Pete and Gerry’s Organic hasn’t done that by becoming a factory farm themselves. They’ve done it by partnering with dozens of other small farms like themselves instead.

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Arnold Coombs
Coombs Family Farms

Arnold Coombs is the seventh generation of the Coombs family to practice the craft of sugaring. His first stop after coming home from the hospital as a newborn wasn’t a crib – it was the sugarhouse where his father was boiling down the sap into maple syrup. Not surprisingly, Arnold was tapping Maple trees himself by the time he was eight. Today, as the head of Coombs Family Farms, Arnold is one of the maple industry’s greatest advocates for sustainable and organic maple farmers. He also likes to sell a bit of maple!

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Nikhil Arora and Alejandro Velez
Back To The Roots

In a college class, we learned mushrooms could grow entirely on spent coffee grounds. After watching hours of how-to videos and turning our fraternity kitchen into a big science experiment, we eventually decided to give up our corporate job offers to instead become full-time mushroom farmers. What started as curiosity about urban farming has turned into a passion to Undo Food™ and reconnect families back to where it comes from through fun and delicious ready to grow and ready to eat products.

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Dr. Andrew Abraham
Orgain®

When Dr. Andrew Abraham was diagnosed with cancer at the age of 17, one of the biggest challenges he encountered was nutrition. The aggressive treatment made Andrew nauseous and he dropped to an alarming 100 pounds.

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Andy and Rachel Berliner
Amy's Kitchen

Andy and Rachel Berliner are the co-founders of Amy's Kitchen, the nation's leading source of organic and non-GMO convenience food. The couple got the idea one night in 1987 when Andy brought home what he describes as a 'horrible' ready-made meal for Rachel.

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Barry Cik
Naturepedic

Barry Cik is the founder of Naturepedic. An environmental engineer by trade published in his field, Barry founded Naturepedic after an eye-opening experience shopping for crib mattresses. Sent out by his wife prior to the birth of his first grandchild, Barry was shocked by the chemicals and questionable materials in the crib mattresses he found.

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