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Mountain Rose Herbs is honored to announce that longtime Owner and President, Shawn Donnille, has been awarded the prestigious 2023 American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) Environmental Impact Award.

But going non-alcoholic or cutting down on alcohol intake doesn’t mean you have to lose your nightlife. The alcohol-free scene has grown throughout Eugene-Springfield as people are cutting back on the booze to focus on mental and physical well being. And some local drinkeries and companies have joined the trend, offering creative non-alcohol cocktails.

Springfield, Oregon based Young Mountain Tea caught the eye of the Food Network with its recently released compostable tea bag products.

Springfield Creamery, the makers of Nancy’s Probiotic Foods, announced that Monica Davis will join the company as director of national sales, effective February 27, 2023. Davis brings nearly 20 years of sales leadership experience to her role; she will be responsible for overseeing all retail sales across the natural and conventional channels.

2023 looks to be one of ColdFire Brewing’s biggest years yet, as they recently promoted pFriem Family Brewers veteran Shawn Grover to head brewer as they gear up to open a second production brewing location in Junction City.

The Oregon Department of Agriculture and Travel Oregon are teaming up to offer booths at the show in a special Bounty of Oregon Pavilion at the 2023 Good Food Mercantile, featuring food and beverage companies from all 7 regions of the state.  Each region will feature (3) producers in which they will have their own table and ability to showcase and sample products. 

120 N. Seneca is currently the headquarters and main production facility for GloryBee Foods,

Oregon’s acclaimed makers of fruited and smoothie sours, West Coast and Hazy IPA, and barrel-aged monsters - Oakshire Brewing - has launched limited self-distribution in the Seattle metro-area.

For Raj Vable, founder of Springfield-based Young Mountain Tea, his early interests were music... not tea. “I knew I would never be a big star, but music brought me into sound engineering which led to electrical engineering at the University of Michigan,” he said. While he thrived in that course of study, he also knew he wanted to do something with more connection to the environment and people.

This wheated bourbon is limited to just a couple hundred bottles for now, and it’s available in the Thinking Tree Spirits tasting room, online, and for shipping across Oregon and Washington

WFFC is seeking sponsors for this year’s event.

Mountain Rose Herbs is honored to announce that the Mountain Rose Aroma Bar retail design and marketing has been awarded a Gold Stevie® Award and selected as the Marketing Campaign of the Year in the retail category of The 2022 American Business Awards®.

The traditional model of enacting sustainability projects, across industries, requires a significant amount of work merely to scope and plan an intervention. Pre-competitive partnerships offer a compelling way for firms to keep pace.

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Mission-driven tea company Young Mountain Tea (YMT) has secured over $1,100,000 from a wide range of sources to support its mission of working with Himalayan farmers to raise the quality of their tea, so they can earn more and raise the quality of their lives.

Eugene’s very own Falling Sky Brewing is one of the nine breweries participating in the event.

Last month Farmers Union Coffee Roasters introduced it’s new rebranded product line and coffee shop experience.

Ninkasi is working with Australian manufacturing performance software company OFS to remove manual processes for its manufacturing team. Thus far, results show an increase of on-time-in-full (OTIF) orders from 40 percent to 94 percent as the brewery expands its production portfolio.

Those planning a wine country crawl frequently visit McMinnville or Newberg, or spend a day among the urban wineries in central Portland. But people looking for something different— both in geography and wine types should consider Eugene.