We make our nutritious, high-fiber organic penne pasta with just two ingredients: durum wheat flour and flour from Kernza®, a wheatlike perennial. Both are 100% whole grain. That gives the pasta a high fiber content (25% Daily Value) and plenty of warm, nutty flavor. Bronze dies, used to cut and shape the dough, create a rough surface that allows sauces to cling, adding even more flavor. We love this penne in pasta salads, pasta bakes, and classic penne alla vodka.
This is the first ever Regenerative Organic Certified® pasta. This certification is the world's most rigorous standard for agriculture.
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The short answer: This product made it to our curated list because it has achieved certification through well-established and respected organizations with its ingredients sourced from regenerative agriculture. FYI: We are currently establishing a way to list non-certified products with transparency about the farm's regenerative practices.
Why is an outdoor clothing company making food?
Industrial agriculture depletes soil, poisons water, and threatens the outdoor places we love. Protecting the earth, and our future on it, means we have to find a better way. So we make foods that restore the planet instead of destroying it. As our founder Yvon Chouinard says, "People buy a jacket every few years, but they eat several times a day. If we're going to save our home planet, it starts with food.”
Regenerative Organic Certification
In 2017, we partnered with several other brands, including Dr. Bronner’s and the Rodale Institute, to establish Regenerative Organic Certified®, the world’s highest-bar organic designation for food and fiber. To be Regenerative Organic Certified, farms must meet stringent standards for soil health, animal welfare, and worker fairness. Well over 5 million acres of farmland are now certified around the world.
Regenerative Organic Certified® is a revolutionary new certification for food, apparel, and personal care ingredients. Regenerative Organic Certified® farms and products meet the highest standards in the world for soil health, animal welfare, and farmworker fairness.
With regenerative organic agriculture, we can rehabilitate soil, respect animal welfare, and improve the lives of farmers. We can sequester carbon, build healthier communities, and reap more nutritious and abundant yields.
In practice, regenerative organic agriculture can look like cover cropping, crop rotation, low- to no-till, compost, and zero use of persistent chemical pesticides and fertilizers.
All Regenerative Organic Certified® products and farms must also meet the requirements of the USDA Organic Certification.
The USDA organic regulations describe organic agriculture as the application of a set of cultural, biological, and mechanical practices that support the cycling of on-farm resources, promote ecological balance, and conserve biodiversity. These include maintaining or enhancing soil and water quality; conserving wetlands, woodlands, and wildlife; and avoiding the use of synthetic fertilizers, sewage sludge, irradiation, and genetic engineering.
Organic producers use natural processes and materials when developing farming systems—these contribute to soil, crop, and livestock nutrition, pest and weed management, attainment of production goals, and conservation of biological diversity.
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