Nancy's Yogurt - Colorful Past & Green Future

By: Lori Smart | July 08 2010
Posted in Eugene - Find It - Eugene

Springfield Creamery Celebrates 50 Years!

Springfield Creamery, makers of Nancy’s yogurt, has brought ‘culture’ to American’s for most of their 50 years in business and is still family-owned & operated. Some very interesting events occurred to keep the company alive over the years. When the company hit hard times in the 70s, a benefit concert performed by the Grateful Dead and attended by more than 20,000 helped keep the creamery churning. They also had a fantastic sales team that helped expand their reach to Bay Area natural markets. One of the team happened to be none other than Huey Lewis, well before he became famous.

Photo: Lori Smart

Local, Real-Food Commitment

Bovine Growth Hormones in your dairy products? Not in Nancy’s Yogurt or any other Springfield Creamery items. They are committed to using only local rBGH-, antibiotic- and pesticide-free milk from Northwest co-op dairy farmers.

While most yogurts rely on artificial and unnecessary thickening agents, Nancy’s stays true to their real food commitment. Their yogurt and cultured soy are made only with pure milk or organic soy milk and live cultures. Fruit flavored items contain pure, real fruit, mostly from the Northwest, with no artificial flavors or colors added. Nancy’s products are all much lower in sugar content than most other brands, and they only use pure honey, white grape juice, or agave as sweeteners.

Just Say No to GMO!

The company’s stand on genetically modified organisms is one that every food company should follow: "We do NOT support the concept of GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms) in food and will NEVER knowingly use ingredients that contain GMOs."

Nancy’s Makes Green Yogurt?

Well, the yogurt isn’t green, but they’re green powered! You can even check out their solar energy stats online. Their commitment to recycling is clear on their packaging, which has been dubbed ‘Nancyware’ by their faithful customers. Who doesn’t have a repurposed Nancy’s container somewhere in their house? Classrooms, garages and closets nationwide take up Nancy’s reduce, reuse, rethink call to action and use their containers over and over.