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.
Learn more about the 2010 Nomination Process and submit your candidate for consideration.
Contact Laura Stravino with questions.
2009 Honorees
OTA honored these accomplished individuals with its Organic Leadership Awards at the 2009 Annual Awards Dinner held at the on June 17, 2009 at the InterContinental Hotel Chicago as part of it's Member Days activities and the All Things Organic" Conference and Trade Show.
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Paddy Doherty, organic farmer and advocate who was instrumental in the development of Canada’s Organic Products Regulations, was honored with the 2009 Organic Leadership Award for Achievement in Growing the Organic Industry. Paddy was unable to join us for the event, but did record his acceptance speech.
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Wendell Lundberg accepted OTA's 2009 Organic Leadership Award for Achievement in Growing Organic Agriculture on behalf of Eldon Lundberg, Wendell Lundberg, Harlan Lundberg and Homer Lundberg, founders of Lundberg Family Farms® and America’s first organic rice farmers.
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Please contact Laura Stravino, Director of Membership & Development, 413-376-1223, with questions about the awards.
Past Honorees:
2008
Ray Fuller
Organic Farming Leadership Award
Drew and Myra Goodman
Organic Leadership Award
2007
Larry Jacobs and Sandra Belin
Organic Farming Leadership Award
Howard Shapiro
Organic Leadership Award
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
