Producer Profiles

Full Circle Farm

In 1996, on 3 rocky acres in North Bend, Andrew Stout and Wendy Munroe started Full Circle Farm with a tractor, a vision of growing high-quality organic food, and a deep-seated belief that farms and businesses play a vital role in the community.

Eleven years later, the matured farm is now located on 260 acres of Snoqualmie River Valley land near Carnation, Washington. This responsive local farm cultivates more than 75 different fruits and vegetable year ‘round: from tender salad greens to fragrant melons.

Alvarado Street Bakery

Sonoma County’s Alvarado Street Bakery is a worker-owned and managed cooperative producing whole grain, organic baked goods. Originally the Red Clover Worker’s Brigade, the company was borne of the Bay Area’s Food for People Not for Profit Movement, circa 1979.

In 1981, five brigadiers formed the Semper Virens Bakery Food Cooperative, later renamed Alvarado Street Bakery due to a road sign’s conspicuous placement. This established co-op, “changing the way the world eats – one slice at a time,” continues to thrive with more than 100 worker-owners and 30 varieties of bakery items.

Emerald Touch

Emerald Touch, a local company owned by co-op member-owner Lillian Quarles, promotes holistic hair care through their herbal hair care line specifically designed for people of African descent (though everyone can benefit from their products’ purity).

With offerings like the Natural curl Pomade, made with herbal extracts of basic, bergamot, birch leaves, jasmine, lavender, rosemary, and sage, or the Natural Curl Herbal Vinegar Rinse, containing comfrey and jaborandi leaves, nettles, and southernwood, you can improve your hair health, and leave petroleum-based beauty behind.

Country Natural Beef

For more than two decades, Country Natural Beef has operated as a producer cooperative in which member ranchers raise their cattle from birth on open ranges without the use of antibiotics or growth-stimulating hormones.

The Country Natural Beef cooperative is third-party certified by the Food Alliance for their environmentally friendly and socially responsible ranching methods. Each family practices sustainable land management, the ethical handling of livestock, and the cooperative principles.

Supporting Country Natural Beef means your dollar goes directly to the ranchers that produce your beef, not to anonymous stockholders divorced from the land and the traditional production of wholesome foods.

Higher Power Trail Mix

Higher Power Trail Mix strives to make the best, dried, organic, natural snack possible. Reluctant to call their snacks trail mix as the term is often associated with candy, preservatives, salt, and sugar, this Ashland, Oregon-based company does things differently. Their combination of fruits sliced at peak-ripeness and gently dried at low temperatures and purified water-soaked nuts and seed maintain the ingredients’ raw qualities and preserve temperature-sensitive enzymes, maximizing their nutritional value.

Suitable for everyone (even the youngsters like them), but specially created for those who choose organic, raw foods, Higher Power makes healthy nibbling easy without sacrificing the yum.

Redwood Hill Farm & Creamery

Since 1968, Jennifer Lynn Bice and her family have created award-winning natural goat cheeses from their Sonoma County dairy. Though their cheeses are not certified organic as Bice and her clan can’t consistently obtain organic feed, Redwood Hill was the first dairy in the United States to be certified humane by Humane Farm Animal Care, guaranteeing all the rBGH-free goats, who receive a hormone- and antibiotic-free diet of alfalfa and bean hay, are raised with space sufficient to support natural behavior and milked and sheared with compassion.

Local Roots Farm

Founded in 2007, Local Roots Farm sits on 5 acres of farmland in Carnation – only 25 miles from urbane Seattle. With Dan Beyers’ landowner partnership, Siri Erickson-Brown and Jason Salvo work area farmers’ markets, administer a thriving Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program, and sell the farm’s holistically grown fruits, herbs, and vegetables to select restaurateurs and grocers. In March 2008, our co-op committed needed funding and labor to a CSA workshare partnership wherein co-op workers, member-owners, and the board of trustees committed 1,000 hours of farmwork to this innovative operation.

Enjoy Local Roots Farm’s harvest when it is seasonally available, and contact us for more information about the co-op’s get-your-hands-dirty workshare program.

Organically Grown Company

An employee- and grower-owned organization, Organically Grown Company is staunchly committed to sustainability as demonstrated through their use of alternative energies and fuel, organic growing practices, ethical workplace practices, and comprehensive recycling, reuse, and composting programs.

Organically Grown Company’s LADYBUG line brings a recognizable, top-quality brand to the market. LADYBUG growers operate small- to medium-sized, family-owned farms throughout the Pacific Northwest, yielding more than 100 seasonal crops.

LADYBUG produce, harvested at peak ripeness and immediately shipped to Organically Grown Company, meets strict requirements for organic production and is certified by Oregon Tilth, the Washington State Department of Agriculture, and other third-party certifiers.