Well Earth promotes the sustainable production of natural and organic products and creates partnerships built upon a mutual respect for quality botanicals and sound social and environmental principles. Below are some of the programs we've worked on to date.
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In February 2009, Commodity Manager Kai Stark and Kathy Larson, Frontier's VP of Sustainability and Education, made a sourcing trip to India. One of their stops was at a Well Earth™ supplier of Fair Trade vanilla closely associated with Akshaya Patra, a charitable foundation that provides meals to schoolchildren in India. While there, Kai and Kathy were able to attend the dedication ceremony for a truck purchased by the Frontier Foundation to transport meals to remote schools in the south-central region of the country. Learn more.
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A Well Earth™ supplier in India used a grant from the Simply Organic 1% fund to bring 790 farmers to their training center for a day of intensive training in organic agriculture. On a recent sourcing trip, Kai and Kathy visited the training center and traveled to some of the small farms in the rugged terrain. Learn more.
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