High Quality Organics is an organic food ingredient company. It offers food companies of all sizes bulk organic herbs and botanicals, spices, teas, blends, and grains. They also provide custom blending and flavor formulation. serving industrial, food service, and retail customers. They provide bulk spice and herb ingredients, private label spiceand herb products, botanical ingredients, control label spice, and herb products, bulk teas, custom blends, certified organic ingredients, and custom packaging.
In 1977, the founder Jerry Tenenberg, created one of the first natural foods supermarkets in the country and became an innovator in the natural food industry. He learned about herbs, botanicals, spices, teas and grains. It was a challenge to find sources, but he did! He really wanted organic products; ideally he wanted all the products to be organic, but unfortunately at that time there weren’t many… BUT, that was very powerful. And THAT was the seed… and the blessing, that really made everything happen.
In a few years, when Jerry moved to California, he began to grow culinary herbs, and by 1986 we were considered the “Fresh Herb” experts and had pioneered the fresh herb category in supermarkets nationwide. Slowly the business converted the production processes to organics, and expanded with a full line of high quality dried herbs that made their way to all the best spice companies in North America. With unique growing and drying techniques, the company could create programs worldwide and bring the first, full line of organically produced herbs, spices and botanicals to North America.
In the mid 90’s, this quest coincided with the world recognizing the need for social responsibility, sustainable agricultural methods and products. At this time, the tobacco industry was facing many challenges and unfortunately many tobacco farmers were losing their livelihoods. The company saw an opportunity. Partnering with villages in Turkey collaborated with them to covert what had been tobacco farms to cultivated oregano, rosemary and other ingredients that up till then were only grown in the wild. They were inspired and successful.
In India, with over 60% of the population in rural farm areas, the government and large companies recognized they had to develop opportunities for sustainable livelihoods. It was a time of rapid transformation. The growth of technology and its use would benefit business and farmer with advances in supply chain, infrastructure and the exchange of real time information. The first initiatives linked directly with rural farmers via the Internet for procurement of products like soybeans, wheat and coffee.
The company would offer method and market for organic production in rural and semi-urban areas. Organic farming could utilize available skills and resources and at the same time improve agricultural productivity, safety and sustainably. The diversity of our intended product line would procure products from the southern rain forests to the central dry land farms.
High Quality Organics expanded from Turkey to the newly open societies of Eastern Europe, to Egypt and Africa. The business began what would become its legacy – connecting growers in remote regions of the world to the expanding organic markets in the U.S and Europe.
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