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Grow, pack, process, distribute, and sell fresh organic white and specialty mushrooms including portabellas, criminis, shiitake, maitake, pom-pom, hon-shimeji, enoki, and oyster.

Since 1999, Pilgrim's Market has been the Inland Northwest HOT SPOT for the finest natural and organic foods, education, green events and more. As the health-seeking "green" consumer continues to seek and support local food growers and retailers, Pilgrim's natural grocers is the perfect example of a homegrown, locally owned alternative to massive, foreign-owned national chains like Trader Joe's or Whole Foods. Lacking nothing, Pilgrim's 25,000-square-foot store offers everything from organic produce to gourmet cheese, beer and wine, bulk foods, meat and deli departments, supplements, an innovative wellness center and even a sizeable education and event center. Located just minutes off I-90, Pilgrim's Market is a frequent destination for locals and a must see for the health-conscious traveler.

For over six decades, Pilgrim’s has produced healthy, high-quality food products that go into some of the world’s finest recipes. Working with approximately over 4,000 family farms throughout the U.S. and Mexico, we are dedicated to providing these wholesome, high-quality products at a great value. As the second-largest chicken producer in the world Pilgrim’s has the capacity to process more than 34 million birds per week for a total of more than over 7 billion pounds of live chicken annually.

With corporate headquarters located in Greeley, Colorado, we have operations in 14 U.S. states as well as in Mexico and Puerto Rico. We are committed to the 40,000 plus team members who work with us to provide products to foodservice, retail and frozen entrée customers. The company’s primary distribution is through retailers, foodservice distributors and restaurants as well as through the export of chicken products to customers all over the world. Pilgrim's Pride is a part of the JBS USA family. JBS S.A., the world's largest protein company, owns 78.5% of our outstanding common stock.

Pink N Wild Farms is a Black and female-owned farm that has a dual focus on organic practices of growing traditional vegetable crops, microgreens, and mushrooms as well as Agri-Tourism and Education through exposing stakeholders to boutique livestock such as mini-cows, mini-donks, chickens, and guarding and herding canines.

Founded in 2019, Planet FWD is on a mission to help undo climate change by making it easier to bring climate-friendly food products to the market. The company is building one of the world's first climate-focused snack brands, sourced from regenerative ingredients to reduce carbon emissions in the food system and promote carbon-capturing farming practices. Planet FWD is also creating a regenerative food platform, connecting brands and consumers who are hungry for climate-friendly ingredients to farmers and suppliers who are using regenerative practices.

My business is an organic medicinal plants and herbs nursery and farm. We sell plants, herbs, herbal teas and other products to members of the community.

Pondini Imports, located in Somerset, NJ, imports organic foods, including Bio-Hombre parmigiano-reggiano cheese, organic pecorino cheeses, olive oils from Tuscany and Sardinia, organic manchego from Spain, organic balsamic vinegars from Modena, organic Italian rices, and specialty foods.

Poofy Organics is a modern apothecary, a consciously crafted skincare and wellness brand that creates clean botanicals and sustainable products, safe and effective for the entire family.

At Poofy Organics, we believe your family deserves the cleanest, purest, best quality personal care, beauty and household products. We believe in the power of natural and organic ingredients that are toxin-FREE to help protect our loved ones. POOFY ORGANICS was created to transfer our love of natural, organic, clean living from our family to yours.

At Poofy Organics our mission is to provide humanity with clean, sustainable beauty, personal care and household products that are good for the entire family and good for our planet.
We are committed to expanding the use of organic ingredients and maintaining organic certification on products our customers know and love. We are focused on increasing the number of certified organic products to provide the cleanest form of natural ingredients that are clean, pure and potent.

POOFY ORGANICS was started in 2008 after a family member of the founder was diagnosed with breast cancer. The family decided to stop using products infused with chemicals, dyes, irritating fragrances and other questionable ingredients. After searching the market for "natural" products, and not being satisfied with the options, Poofy Organics was born

Greetings! Pouring Violet honors the regenerative, holistic agricultural, and human wellness practices of the past and embraces the ecological and ethical biodynamic principles of the present. The ancestors acknowledged and gave thanks for the mutualistic relationship between humans, earth's creatures, plant medicine, and the universal shifts of the cosmos...and so do we.

"This isn't a business, it's my Soul's purpose." This truth is a beautiful reminder of who I am and why I'm here. I'm led by the Spirits of the ancestors who honored plants as medicine and by the Spirits of plants that form symbiotic relationships with the land and its inhabitants. As a generational BIPOC farmland owner who uses holistic land steward practices, I'm an advocate who reminds us that we are all responsible for caring for the earth and its creatures. I'm an herbalist who encourages all to grow their own medicine and a first-generation beekeeper who sees Divine communal collaboration in the collective and a sacred thread that weaves their wellness into our own. My mission for Pouring Violet is to create opportunities to engage the community in, especially those that have been historically underserved.

Our business is built on the belief that there is goodness in simplicity. POWDERPURE began in the 1990s when our founders developed INFIDRI™, a gentle infrared drying technology, to simplify produce into a convenient, powdered form.

This patented technology utilizes targeted wavelengths of infrared light that resonate with molecules of water to remove only moisture, retaining the delicate, beneficial compounds in food without the need for fillers or carriers. INFIDRI™ extends freshness while keeping our products as close to nature as possible.

Unlike traditional drying methods, INFIDRI™ does not rely on intense heat or vacuum pressure to remove water. While these harsh conditions damage fragile nutrient and color compounds, our gentle technology keeps these molecules intact.

Today, we use INFIDRI™ in our state-of-the-art facility in The Dalles, Oregon to simplify real food of all kinds into pure powders that sustain the very best nature has to offer.

In the beginning: The first family farms were bought back in 1934 by my great-grandfather, Gustav Sasse, who migrated to the USA from Mecklenburg region of Germany. Gustav arrived from Hamburg through Boston harbor. Gustav bought and then sold one quarter of land in Nobles County, MN, to each of his sons. Edward Bernard Sasse, Sr., his 2nd oldest son, farmed 160 acres of row crop, 30 head of beef cattle, and 40 hogs until his death on 27 April 1992. On 26 April 1942, Edward Sr. married Verla Drake at St. Matthew Lutheran Church in Worthington, MN. Their first son, Edward Jr. (my dad), was born on 25 Oct 1944, and passed away on 17 Nov 2014. He married Patsy Jean Mitchell (my mom) at St. Matthew Lutheran Church on 9 April 1966, and their first daughter, Angela, was born on 5 Jan 1969. Patsy Jean Mitchell was born 20 Sept 1943 and passed away on 27 Aug 2012. Both my parents are buried side-by-side at the Bluff View Cemetery in Vermillion after being together for 46 years. My dad helped us on the new SD farm up to his passing in Vermillion, and previously on my former 20 acre farm in Woodbury County, IA.

But it doesn't end there. Angela and her husband, Glenn Pulse, continue farming small-scale in Clay County, South Dakota. Angela is alumni of The University of South Dakota and has made a career in the organic agriculture regulatory field and adult & higher education. The farm today includes greenhouse, row crops, livestock, and pasture on 15 acres 1 mile north of Vermillion, SD, and is certified organic by MOSA. Glenn Pulse owns Pulse Contracting in Vermillion and is a licensed plumber and HVAC installer by trade. There are 5 children between Glenn and Angela: Ryan, Leanna, Jennifer, Rebecca, and Brittany.

2017 brings an exciting new venture for the family as we move into on-farm poultry processing in a new Plant in a Box concept design by David Schafer. Please follow us on our YouTube Channel for upcoming exciting videos.

We are members of the American Pastured Poultry Producers Association, Practical Farmers of Iowa, South Dakota Local Foods Coop, and Dakota Rural Action.

Presence Marketing/Dynamic Presence is a natural, national & independently owned broker, poised to compete in today's rapidly growing market. Over the years we have successfully built sales and partnerships within the natural and conventional grocery channels. Our many years of experience in the industry, coupled with our high energy, strong standards and vision, allows us to help you build and maintain a strong market position through a myriad of retail, wholesale and manufacturer services. We are highly selective about the products we represent, dedicated to the principles of the natural products industry and committed to sustainable business.

Primal Essence is an ingredient/flavor company that produces certified organic water-soluble oils and oleoresins in liquid and powdered forms via a proprietary technology, without the use of any chemicals or anything artificial. This unique process, combined with raw materials extracted using only the safest and most advanced extraction technologies primarily CO2 without the use of harsh chemical solvents, results in the purest, most powerful extracts available today. Our technology can be applied to any oil or oleoresin, so the range of extracts we offer is as extensive as there are oils or oleoresins available. Primal Essence manufacturing facility is organic and kosher certified, operating under the strictest QA Program.

n 1994, PrimusLabs began its foray into auditing by developing G.A.P. manuals, and in 1996, the company became an early force in the produce industry for field level food safety plans. It was the first American company to offer auditing for farms and harvest crews and became an early and strong advocate for complete programs for farms and ranches. Over the next few years, PrimusLabs began offering food industry plans, and GMP audits and consultation for processing plants, cooling and cold storage facilities, packing sheds, terminal market and distribution centers. These audits were known as PrimusLabs Standard audits.

The firm provided extensive expertise in the form of “guides” used throughout the industry and by governmental food safety agencies. Thus, Primus Laboratories advanced the concept of preventing contamination at the earliest point in the production chain, rather than limiting the focus to downstream packing or processing operations, a concept not acknowledged by the FDA until 2011 with the passage of FSMA.

Marrone Bio Innovations makes pesticide a little less poisonous. The company's biopesticides are made from eco-friendly ingredients such as plant extracts, bacterium, or fungus. Marrone Bio Innovations has three products on the market and three in development awaiting EPA approval. Its pesticide Grandevo contains bacteria that repels plant-eating insects and kills them if ingested. The company's plant extract-based fungicide Regalia is also used as a seed treatment for corn, cotton, and soybeans, and Zequanox kills mussels found in water pipes. Its products are primarily sold to vegetable growers as alternatives to conventional agricultural chemicals. Marrone Bio Innovations went public in 2013.

Pro-Cert was founded by Wallace J. Hamm over a quarter-century ago. Now his son Byron works alongside him, running the day-to-day operations together at Pro-Cert as Byron’s daughter learns to follow in her father’s – and grandfather’s – footsteps.

Pro-Cert’s certification program is recognized globally providing international access to the products and brands we certify.

NOP (USA)
COR (Canada) andBIO (Quebec)
JAS (Japan)
Bio-Suisse
KOC (Korea)
Our program is accredited to by IOAS – a globally recognized accreditor and member of the International Accreditation Forum (IAF).

Established in 1943, Producers Rice Mill Inc. is a farmer-owned cooperative that has been a significant supplier in the rice industry for over 75 years. With established customers worldwide, Producers Rice Mill Inc. focuses on the benefits of rice and rice ingredients in multiple market segments including food service, retail, and industrial. Producers Rice Mill’s full ownership of Producers Rice Ingredients has enabled our teams to leverage our extensive knowledge and experience in the rice industry to expand our reach across developing markets.

PRI manufactures a diverse offering of rice products that are utilized by multiple segments of the food industry. Through a combined effort working closely with our customers on innovation and new product development, we seek to maximize the natural and beneficial qualities of rice as an ingredient. With a focus on the future, we continually look for options to improve our current product offering in support of our customers’ demands.

Our mission is to share the conversation about chemicals
in everyday products found on the grocery shelves that contribute
to breast cancer; empowering women to make safer choices to protect
their breasts during the most vulnerable periods of their lives.

Alliance of natural products retailers, manufacturers, brokers, distributors, consultants, organizations and individuals addressing such issues as food safety, ethical business practice, sustainable agriculture and environmental integrity, communications, networking and advocacy.

At Next Gen Pet Products we have built our business by searching the world for truly unique pet products. Many of the products from Next Gen have been in the international market for a number of years, and now Next Gen brings them to you in North America. Next Gen partners with many of the largest pet product manufacturers and distributors around the world to develop innovative pet products based on well established and market proven ingredients and formulas.