NH Business of The Month- Stonyfield Farm

Many yogurt lovers know this brand of yogurt it's the number four leading yogurt manufacturer in the country. I just found out they were from NH a few months ago. I was turned onto an initiative of theirs before I got to know the yogurt side. The initiative is Climate Counts which is a non-profit organization that holds businesses accountable for their ecological footprint. It calls to action investors who care about the environment to act with their money and not invest in companies that show little to no acknowledgment of their footprint (the rankings can be found here). Now again whichever side of the debate you're on you can acknowledge the fact that they are doing their homework with this and that they have set out to make a difference in a cause they truly believe in which is admirable.

Aside from Climate Counts.org the company is the #1 organic yogurt maker in the country and does it all within the state of NH. You can go check out their farm in Londonderry, NH (Tour information is here). They also give 10% of the profits to environmental causes and use only milk from New England and the Midwest.

I guess after gushing over this company for two paragraphs I can provide one more example to why this company is pretty cool. Earlier this year they had a mishap with their low-fat blueberry yogurt (full article). People were reporting glass fragments in their yogurt and actually the article is still showing up #3 on searches when you search 'Stonyfield Yogurt' but they were the ones that reacted going as far as a full investigation with the findings being revealed here two weeks after the first cases were announced.

So my unannounced celebratory post about a yogurt company may lead to frequent spotlights on cool companies based out of NH that I find or decide to learn more about. They might not all be on the extreme positive side.