OTA’s Annual Organic Leadership Award

 

An OTA Organic Leadership Award is the association's highest honor. The award is given annually to an individual, inside or outside the organic industry, who has shown leadership and vision in furthering goals of the organic movement.

OTA's 2008 Leadership Award Honorees are:
 


Myra Goodman and Ray Fuller at the
OTA Annual Awards Dinner.

Ray Fuller
Organic Farming Leadership Award

Drew and Myra Goodman
Organic Leadership Award

Read Myra Goodman's remarks from the OTA Annual Awards Dinner.

Please Note: Fuller's remarks are not available at this time.


OTA’s Press Release about the 2008 Organic Leadership Awards with more information about Ray Fuller, owner of Stormy Mountain Ranch, and the Goodmans, founders of Earthbound Farm.

OTA calls for nominations each fall for the Organic Leadership Awards. For more information about the nomination criteria and process, please contact Laura Stravino, Director of Membership and Development.

Past Honorees:
2007
Larry Jacobs and Sandra Belin
Organic Farming Leadership Award

Howard Shapiro
Organic Leadership Award

Read Howard Shapiro's remarks (PDF document).

Please Note: Jacobs'/Belin's remarks are not available.

2006
Katherine DiMatteo
Outstanding Individual Achievement


2005
Joseph Smillie
Special Pioneer Award

LaRhea & Terry Pepper
Organic Agriculture Award


2004
Neil Strayer
Organic Agriculture Award

Nora Pouillon, Nora's/Asia Nora's
Special Pioneer Award

2003
The Rodale Family


2002

Bená Burda, Maggie’s Organics/Clean Clothes, Inc.
Special Pioneer Award

Dave Reibling, Oak Manor Farms
Organic Agriculture Award

 

Mark Retzloff
Outstanding Individual Achievement Award 

 

Bob Scowcroft, Organic Farming Research Foundation (OFRF)
Legislative and Regulatory Award


2001

Allen Shainsky, Petaluma Poultry (posthumously)
Special Pioneer Award

 Bill Wolf, Wolf & Associates
Outstanding Individual Achievement Award


2000

Kathleen Merrigan, Administrator, Agricultural Marketing Program, U.S. Department of Agriculture


1999

Frank Ford, Founder, Arrowhead Mills


1998

Paul K. Keene, Founder, Walnut Acres


1997

The Honorable Patrick J. Leahy