Oikos Introduces Honey and Blueberry to Line Up

"Stonyfield Farm has introduced new flavors in the Oikos Organic line of Greek yogurts. The new flavors include blueberry and honey.

The company said that the blueberry, honey and vanilla flavors are available in a 5.3 ounce size, and the plain variety is available in 5.3 ounce or 16 ounce containers. Oikos Organic Greek yogurt is available throughout the US in natural food stores and select grocery stores, the company added.

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Big Stonyfield News: Everything's Organic!

"This month, we achieved a dream I've had for 25 years. With the conversion of our 6-oz fat free yogurts to organic, everything we make is now organic! I could not be more excited. A couple weeks ago, we even shut down our Yogurt Works for an afternoon so we could all get together to celebrate.

Our now-retired founder and my former longtime partner Samuel Kaymen came to the party and said a few words about why, in the early ‘80s, he started the little farming school that eventually became our yogurt company. He told us how the demise of agriculture has nearly always preceded the fall of great civilizations, and said he’d begun teaching sustainable, organic farming to encourage an alternative to unsustainable, chemical-intensive farming."

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So exciting!

YoBaby Simply Plain from Stonyfield

"Stonyfield Farm, the world's leading organic yogurt maker, announces the creation of baby's first yogurt, YoBaby Simply Plain.

Made with organic whole milk that provides calcium and protein essential for baby's proper development, YoBaby Simply Plain also includes Stonyfield's six live active probiotic cultures to ensure good intestinal health.

YoBaby Simply Plain will be available in mid-January, 2008, in major grocery stores and in natural food stores nationwide.

"YoBaby Simply Plain is a great introduction to solid foods for babies six months and older," says Stonyfield Farm President and CE-Yo Gary Hirshberg. "Fresh organic whole milk and our exclusive blend of active cultures provide a great start for any baby and help establish a lifelong habit of healthy eating."

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Stonyfield Sponsors Museum

"The Children’s Metamorphosis today announced that Stonyfield Farm has committed to a three-year, $10,000 per year sponsorship of the struggling children’s museum. Part of Stonyfield’s Profits for the Planet initiative, the funds will be used for Met operating expenses and for a new exhibit aimed at educating and exciting young Met patrons about organic farming.

“The Met is a perfect match for our efforts to encourage healthy food, healthy kids, and a healthy planet,” said Maureen Wolpert, senior product manager at Stonyfield Farm. “We’re pleased to help the museum get back on solid financial ground, and excited about sharing our vision of natural, organic-based agriculture with the thousands of kids and families that visit the Met each year.”

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The Next YoBaby

"Some posed with stuff animals. Others wore bunny ears, Halloween outfits or - gasp! - nothing at all.

Entrants in the first Stonyfield Farm YoBaby Cover Contest in 2005 were all pretty darned cute, so YoBaby is once again searching the nation for a baby and toddler who may appear on its organic yogurt packaging in the months to come.

Partnering with Stonyfield Farm, the world's leading organic yogurt maker, is The Picture People, family portrait experts with 175 locations in malls nationwide.

The YoBaby Cover Baby Contest will include two grand prize winners: a baby, age 6-12 months, and a toddler, 13-24 months. Winners will receive a $5,000 US Savings Bond, a childhood of portraits from The Picture People, and an all-expense paid trip - parents in tow, of course - to San Francisco for a professional photo shoot."

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Stonyfield Takes Part in Live Earth

"Stonyfield Farm's environmental mission and the debut of its non-profit focusing on climate change made its participation in Live Earth a foregone conclusion.

The world's leading organic yogurt maker - which has supported healthy food, healthy people and a healthy planet for almost 25 years - is an Official Partner of the worldwide concert event that will bring attention to climate change.

Live Earth is a 24-hour, 7-continent series of nine concerts taking place July 7 that will bring together more than 100 music artists and 2 billion people to trigger a global movement to solve the climate crisis. Live Earth will reach this worldwide audience through an unprecedented global media architecture covering all media platforms - TV, radio, Internet and wireless channels.

"Live Earth hopefully will be a global moment of truth when it comes to climate change," says Gary Hirshberg, Stonyfield Farm President and CE-Yo. "Millions will learn more about how we can secure our futures and save the planet, but we must act. Live Earth will help spread the message that our future is now."

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Bid With Your Lid 2007

"Grab your spoons, America! This summer, the National Park Foundation will receive a contribution from Stonyfield Farm Yogurt through their "Bid With Your Lid" program.

Through the "Bid With Your Lid" initiative, Stonyfield Farm makes an initial $20,000 contribution to the National Park Foundation and the other two participating organizations -- Sustainable Harvest International (SHI) and The Center for the New American Dream. An additional $40,000 -- for a total donation of $100,000 from Stonyfield Farm -- is allocated among the three causes based on public voting online or by mail with specifically marked yogurt lids."

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Stonyfield Wants You to Take Action

"Stonyfield Farm and Environmental Defense today launched a petition drive to urge Congress to expand farmland stewardship and protection programs in the 2007 Farm Bill.

This month, a message printed on over eight million Stonyfield Farm yogurt lids will tell consumers: “In the time it takes to eat this yogurt, ten acres of farmland will be lost to development” and urge consumers to take action such as signing a petition to Congress seeking more funds for USDA programs that reward farmers when they help preserve open spaces and provide a healthier environment."

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Stony, Yogurt on a Mission Launches in UK

"Stonyfield Farm, the U.S. brand that made its name with quality products and a unique social-environmental mission, has created a new European organic yogurt brand in its own image -- albeit funkier and more politically charged.

Stony, Yogurt on a Mission™, a brand with a healthy dose of humour and a little gang of cartoon activists called "Stonies' each with their own "mission of the day" includes organic yogurts, low-fat yogurt desserts and children's fromage frais products. It is the UK's first healthy planet brand, according to the company founder.

.."We surely will appeal to people's appetite for organic, delicious products, but we also want to engage their hearts and minds," says Hirshberg. "The health of our planet is too important to leave to scientists and politicians. We want our consumers, their families and friends, to learn more about healthy food and how they can help create a healthy planet, for all of us. Stony's message is one of hope - we can make this planet a better place."

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Everyone probably already knows how much I love Stonyfield. I'm glad people in the UK now have the chance to experience such great organic yogurt.

Stonyfield Ups Oikos Website

The Oikos website is up! There isn't really much new information, but it does say Oikos is available at natural food markets nationwide! (A store locator is also being added to the site.) Check out their website in meantime.

Stonyfield's New British Sister

There's a new banner on the Stonyfield website that says "And now, introducing our new UK sister company." The announcement banner links to this website which tells UK consumers to "ask for a Stony this June at your favorite shop and cafe."

So, I guess Stonyfield is going global.. or something like that. The lack of information is irritating, but I'm assuming people in the UK will now be able to get their hands on some great yogurt. Their website is kinda odd though, don't you think? I also think the slogan is a little too familiar. "Yogurt on a Mission." Makes you think of "Kashi: Seven Whole Grains on a Mission" doesn't it?