Choice Organic Teas
Seattle, Washington
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A firm belief in organics, with a dedication to ensure the ethical treatment of workers who cultivate tea, and a team of dedicated employees at Choice Organic Teas, has made the company a modern day tea pioneer. A brand of Granum, Inc. of Seattle, WA, Choice Organic Teas made its debut in 1989 as an outgrowth of the company founder, Blake Rankin’s active involvement in the organic marketplace. As North America’s #1 selling exclusively certified organic tea line, we have promoted the growth and development of organic agriculture in tea estates worldwide. In 2000, Choice Organic Teas became the first tea crafter in the United States to offer Fair Trade Certified™ tea. Today, they offer more varieties of Fair Trade Certified tea than any other tea company in North America, expanding awareness of a just form of trade with the developing world. Choice Organic Teas are manufactured in a certified organic facility where Green-e Certified renewable energy certificates (RECs) from wind power are purchased to offset 100 percent of the facility’s electricity.

The Essential Baking Company
Seattle, Washington
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Since 1994, The Essential Baking Company has set out to preserve, cultivate, and honor traditional methods of food preparation with a commitment to using organic ingredients. The bakery has grown in size and production to meet the demand for a high quality, authentic culinary experience, while maintaining the same production techniques, service, and values of a small neighborhood bakery. Using organic ingredients, Essential baking Company makes fresh artisan breads, European pastries, and luscious desserts, all at their Wallingford bakery.

Fresh Breeze Organic Dairy
Lyndon, Washington
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Ernst & Teuntje Zweegman came from the Netherlands in the late 1800's. They homesteaded their dairy north of Lynden in 1901. Their daughter Helena married Arnoldus Blankers in 1905, and in 1911 gave birth to Bertus, Shawn Langley's grandpa. Grandpa Blankers started farming on his own across the fields, and soon married Angeline. Their daughter Joyce married Ken Douma, who later passed away, and had Rachelle, Shawn, and Heidi.

Shawn and his wife, Clarissa, took over the management of the dairy 15 years ago. Located near Lynden, Fresh Breeze Organic Dairy still harvests grass and corn off some of the same land as Shawn's great grandparents did in the early 20th century. As most of their farming practices were already organic, they decided to make the switch to operating a certified organic farm. Fresh Breeze is unique among organic dairies in that they raise and pasture their 180 dairy cows from birth, grow all of their own organic feed on their 400 plus acres, and bottle their milk products right on site.

Grounds for Change
Pacific Northwest
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Grounds for Change is a certified organic coffee roaster specializing in 100% Fair Trade Coffee. We roast Organic Fair Trade Coffee that is grown in shaded conditions and our Coffee of the Month Club is the perfect coffee gift for any occasion. Grounds for Change has a comprehensive Wholesale Coffee program for independent coffeehouses, as well as a Coffee Fundraiser for organizations. Every single bean they roast is certified Fair Trade Organic coffee.

Heritage Meats
Rochester, Washington
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Heritage Meats is an artisan butchering company that specializes in organic, locally grown and sustainable meat products and services. They are a certified USDA meat processor and also a Charter Member of the Puget Sound Meat Producers Cooperative.

Heritage Meats is owned and operated by Tracy Smaciarz. His father, Tom Smaciarz, acquired his meat cutting skills growing up on a farm slaughtering and processing the livestock. In 1968 Tom turned those skills into a career as a meat cutter for Safeway. Knowing he wanted to have his own business someday, he began purchasing meat equipment and cutting beef, game and making sausage for friends and family.

In 1977, East Olympia Meats officially opened. By 1989 Tom had retired from Safeway and East Olympia Meats became his full time job. From the very beginning Tracy was by his side, learning his father’s skills. After 19 years of successful business, Tom put away his knives and handed the business over to Tracy. Having outgrown the location in East Olympia, WA, he relocated the business to Rochester, WA and in turn renamed the company Heritage Meats.

A lot of things have changed over the life of the family business, but the quality and pride that goes into their work remains the same.

Island Spring Organics
Vashon Island, Washington
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Since 1976, Island Spring has been in the business of good health, making tofu and tofu-based products at their plant on Vashon Island in Washington State. Island Spring has grown from a small cottage industry, occupying an outbuilding on the Island's westside, to an established producer of healthy soybean-based products. It now serves the third-largest soyfood consumer base in the U.S. While demand for Island Spring products has grown, the company's growth has not been uneventful. In early Spring 1986, a fire destroyed all of Island Spring's manufacturing facility, leaving little intact. Undaunted, however, the dedicated Island Spring employees braved the freezing rain and snow salvaging what they could of the equipment. And, Phoenix-like, a new vision of the company emerged out of the ashes of the fire. In just 58 days, Island Spring built a new 4,000-square-foot facility just south of the town of Vashon. They began to develop plans to build a fully-automated, state-of-the-art 37,000-square-foot manufacturing facility -- on Vashon Island, of course.

Larsen's Creamery
Clackamas, Oregon
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Larsen’s Creamery is respected for its quality butter products and for its integrity, value, and long-standing dedication to the Northwest's grocery and food service providers.

Larsen's produces and packages its own Mother's Choice brand of sweet cream butter. We also produce butter products for the grocery, food service, and ingredient industries, including butter quarters, butter solids, and Continental Foil butter chips, whip, and bulk butter.

Located on over nine acres just outside of Portland, Oregon, Larsen’s operates a state of the art butter production facility, refrigerated cold storage, and convenient distribution center.

Marilyn's Nut Butters
Seattle, Washington
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Since the 1970s, founder Marilyn Taylor has passionately entwined her love of cooking with a consciousness of fine, high quality, organic ingredients. A creative moment in the kitchen brought her a new passion with the conception of her delectable line of finely crafted roasted nut butters. The sweet and savory blends of high-quality nuts and organic seasonings combine to make perfect dips, spreads and marinades for any occasion. She has made a commitment to the highest quality, healthiest and purest products, which means you can rely on Marilyn’s Nut Butters to always be delicious, nutritious, and environmentally conscious. You can always feel good about Marilyn's Nut Butters, whether you're giving them as a gift to a friend, an appetizer at a dinner party, or an after-school snack to your kids. All Marilyn’s Nut Butters are completely vegan and gluten free.

Moon Valley Honey
Deming, Washington
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"Our products are developed with the intention to nourish and heal your body, mind, and spirit, as well as to care for the Earth." Kim Denend and Aaron Otto, creators of Moon Valley Organics, share their combined experiences in farming, healing, creativity/artistry, and activism to nurture a thriving business. Their quest for wholeness and well-being led them to develop their unique healing body care products. They recently collaborated with Dr. Daniel Newman, MD, ND, and DOM, and other licensed herbalists to formulate their newest medicinal salves. Daniel brings over 20 years of experience with internal medicine and pain management. He contributes his knowledge to formulating these unique blends of medicinal salves, which combine our favorite western herbs with traditional Chinese medicinals. The bulk of their ingredients are grown and processed in the Cascadia Bioregion, or meet high standards of integrity, quality and sustainability.

Mt. Townsend Creamery
Port Townsend, Washington
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Mt. Townsend Creamery is founded on the belief that Pacific Northwest dairy is a regional treasure. They source only the best local milk from the region to craft cheese with a sense of place. Owners Matt Day and Ryan Trail have worked to reinvigorate the dairy processing industry in the Northwest by introducing specialty cheeses made using traditional methods with a northwest flavor. It’s their goal to help rebuild the region’s dairy processing tradition while paying homage to the dairies that have allowed them to thrive. Workers at Mt. Townsend Creamery know cheese. The small staff depends upon teamwork and versatility as cheesemaking requires constant attention. Their cheesemakers are often seen at the farmers markets selling cheese and their retailer routinely leaves the store register to help drain whey and ladle curds. They are as dedicated to quality cheesemaking as we are to growing organic produce.

Organic Valley Coop
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Since 1988 Organic Valley Coop has been a cooperative of family farmer-owners whose central mission is to support rural communities by protecting the health of the family farm — working toward both economic and environmental sustainability. Organic Valley's stable, self-determined farmer pay prices and their love of the land are the best assurance that their co-op members will be able to continue the tradition of organic farming into the next generation.

Quillisascut Cheese Company
Rice, Washington
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In 2002 Lora Lea and Rick Misterly started the Quillisascut (Quil-li-sas-cut) Farm School of the Domestic Arts, “We want our farm to be a place where people can learn together, to understand where their food is coming from,” says Lora Lea. The Misterlys’ vision for the farm soon encompassed the larger community of farmers, chefs, restaurateurs, and others who have a place in the farm-to-table continuum. Lora Lea and Rick want to show the intricate web that links producers and consumers with the land. A love for the farm house cheese that her Mother made led Lora Lea and Rick on the journey from farming the land to starting Quillisascut Cheese Company. Using only the milk from their own herd of goats, they produce a variety of limited availability aged raw milk cheeses.

Ritrovo Italian Regional Foods
Seattle, Washington
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For six years, Ritrovo founders Ron Post and Ilyse Rathet lived in Italy, studying, traveling and researching Italian foods and wines. Along the way they met and gradually built relationships with talented, small scale producers throughout the country. Ilyse and Ron also developed a passion for the food and products that they found. These foods came to "tell a story" – of centuries old tradition, the value of diversity, and the implications of supporting small farm production.

River Valley Ranch
Fall City, Washington
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Fall City's own cheesemonger! It doesn't get more local than this. River valley Ranch makes cow, goat, sheep, and yak cheese. With a rotating stock of over 16 different types of cheese to choose from and we are excited to bring on River Valley Ranch as a Full Circle partner producer!

Theo Chocolates
Seattle, Washington
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Theo produces premium organic and Fair Trade specialty chocolate. Their founder, Joseph Whinney, pioneered the supply of organic cocoa beans into the United States in 1994. He had always dreamed of building the first organic chocolate factory in the US, as prior to Theo’s inaugural chocolate run in March 2006, all organic chocolate was manufactured in Europe and imported into the US market. As the first and only organic and Fair Trade chocolate factory in the country, all of Theo’s ingredients are carefully screened to ensure they meet the highest standards for social and environmental responsibility.

Willapa Hills Farmstead Cheese
Doty, Washington
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Three generations are involved in raising dairy sheep and making farmstead and artisan cheese on the Willapa Hills farm in Southwest Washington State. At Willapa Hills, they have a passion for blue sheep and cow milk cheese and their emerging family of cheeses reflect a love of blue! Inside their century old barn on the banks of the Chehalis River you will find a flurry of activity from sunrise to sunset. Many years of hard work has turned their historic gambrel barn into a fully functioning single 24 milk parlor and state-of-the-art creamery. Their sheep are raised on pasture without exposure to pesticides, commercial fertilizers or growth hormones.Their feed is free of animal byproducts and their grass hay is locally grown and nourished by the 70+ inches of rainfall that keeps the eastern edge of the Willapa Hills lush and green. The cow milk for Willapa Hills cheeses comes from a local family cow dairy that shares a commitment to fresh and natural milk.