Support a Hero Farmer
Support a farmer on the path to sustainability.
Two organic food manufacturers, Nature’s Path Organic Foods and Organic Valley, have joined with Organic Gardening magazine to support the Farmers Can Be Heroes program. This program, sponsored by the Rodale Institute, is a great new outreach and education program designed to praise farmers as heroes who feed us—heroes who are mitigating climate change and preserving the earth for future generations. Farmers Can Be Heroes provides an online course for conventional farmers who are interested in making the transition to organic.
You can support these organic heroes by purchasing one Organic Valley product and one Nature’s Path product and mailing in both proof of purchases. In return, you’ll receive a free, one-year subscription to Organic Gardening magazine and a chance to win a year of free breakfasts (organic milk and cereal)! Both Nature’s Path and Organic Valley will contribute $1 each for every proof of purchase mailed in for a contribution of up to $50,000 to the Rodale Institute’s Farmers Can Be Heroes program.
About Nature’s Path
Founded in 1985, Nature’s Path Organic Foods is headquartered in Richmond, British Columbia and employs over 300 people at its four facilities in Canada and the United States. The privately held, family-owned company produces breakfast foods and snacks sold in specialty foods stores and retailers in 40 countries around the world. The company’s innovative brands include Nature’s Path®, Flax Plus, EnviroKidz® and Optimum®.
About Organic Valley
Organic Valley is America’s largest and oldest cooperative of organic farmers and is one of the nation’s leading organic brands. Organized in 1988, Organic Valley is owned by 1,341 organic farmers in 34 states and one Canadian province, and achieved $432.5 million in 2007 sales. Focused on its founding mission of saving family farms through organic farming, Organic Valley produces a variety of organic foods, including organic milk, soy, cheese, butter, spreads, creams, eggs, produce and juice, which are sold in supermarkets, natural foods stores and food cooperatives nationwide. The same farmers who produce for Organic Valley also produce a full range of delicious organic meat under the Organic Prairie Family of Farms label. For further information, call 1-888-444-MILK or visit www.organicvalley.coop and the cooperative’s farmer website, www.farmers.coop.
About The Rodale Institute
Rodale Institute is a non-profit research and education organization focused on regenerative agriculture and its impact on health and the environment. For six decades the Rodale Institute has demonstrated the benefits of organic farming through innovative research on its research farm, the world’s largest research facility of its kind. The Institute has trained farmers throughout the country and abroad in methods that replenish the soil, sequester carbon, thereby aiding the environment, increase nutrient density and provide drought resistance.
Most recently Rodale Institute launched a free Transition to Organics online course and provides information and expertise for farmers, policy-makers and consumers about how regenerative agriculture can help solve global warming, improve nutrition and prevent worldwide famine. www.rodaleinst.org
