Compassion in a Nutshell  Once Again Nut Butter Celebrates 35
Years Written By: WholeFoods Magazine Staff View more articles
in:   Jeremy Thaler and his wife Constance Potter started the
company in 1976 as a worker-cooperative. The couple’s interest
in nut butters began when a nearby museum asked Thaler to make
an old-fashioned peanut butter for them for an exhibit they were
having. Not long after, Once Again Nut Butter was born.  Organic
on a Mission The company got its start when organic
certification was still a fairly new concept, so new that
organic peanut farming wasn’t even fully established in the
United States. That didn’t stop Once Again Nut Butter from
making an organic product.  The firm was instrumental in
developing the organic peanut growing standards and in 1989,
became the first company in the United States to produce Organic
Valencia Peanut Butter. Over the next five years, the company
subsidized the growing organic peanut crop, paving the way for
future organic peanut products.  Once Again