Organic and Non-GMO Company Profiles

Shooting for the Moon: Using the power of food to rescue the planet

Moonshot Snacks is “climate-friendly snack brand” with strong commitment to regenerative agriculture Entrepreneurial visionaries can often be spotted early on. When Julia Collins started the WORM (World Organic Recycling Movement) compost club in seventh grade, it was clear she was already thinking big. And despite a detour into biomedical engineering when she was at Harvard, […]

Celebrating a career of dedication to organic farming

By Brianna Gwirtz, Ohio’s Country Journal field reporter In 1973, a young Dean McIlvaine was plagued by the problems caused by the energy crisis. The crisis was causing gas prices to skyrocket and fuel shortages were abundant. McIlvaine often thought about alternatives to using fossil fuel, something that would be better for the planet. A […]

Ciranda navigates challenges in organic ingredients market

Ingredient supplier builds on founders’ vision of clean, organic food for all Organic ingredient suppliers often have to source products from far-flung regions of the world due to a shortage or unavailability of many ingredients in the U.S. Ciranda, is a good example. The Hudson, Wisconsin company supplies organic, non-GMO, and fair trade ingredients such as […]

Montana lentil farmers go against the grain to build thriving organic business

Timeless Seeds’s “lentil underground” continues to grow, producing nutrient-dense specialty crops while regenerating Montana’s soils and rural communities David Oien doesn’t seem like a renegade. He’s a friendly, down-to-earth, third-generation Montana farmer. But David and his fellow farmers at Timeless Seeds are renegades. In Montana, a state dominated by conventional wheat, David and Timeless Seeds went […]

Building direct brand-farmer relationships is essential to ensuring integrity of organic cotton

Gallant International sources regenerative organic cotton directly from organic farmers in India The integrity of organic cotton in India was called into question earlier this year when the New York Times published an investigative report claiming to uncover significant fraud in the country’s supply. The article said that as much as four-fifths of India’s organic cotton supply was actually […]