Stonyfield Organic

Back in 1983, our co-founders Samuel Kaymen and Gary Hirshberg were running a non-profit organic farming school on a small New Hampshire farm. They were on a mission to help family farms survive, keep food and its production healthy, and help protect the environment. However, the school needed funding. They put the farm's seven cows to work (and all the helping hands they could wrangle) and began selling really good yogurt made without the use of toxic persistent pesticides or chemical fertilizers. Samuel and Gary did most of the work back then. They milked the cows, made the yogurt, and even made sales calls and deliveries. The yogurt was a hit. A big one. And Samuel and Gary realized that a successful organic company could make a bigger difference for family farms, people, and the planet than their school could. So, they decided to run with yogurt.