Natural Products Expo East 2015

Samuel Fromartz
Editor in Chief
Food & Environment Reporting Network (FERN)


Samuel Fromartz is a veteran business journalist and author of the acclaimed Organic, Inc: Natural Foods and How They Grew. He began his career at Reuters, working as a correspondent in Washington and as Deputy Business Editor in New York. Since he left Reuters, his freelance articles have appeared in Inc., Business Week, The New York Times, and many other publications. He began work on Organic Inc. in 2003, in part using proceeds from his sale of Whole Foods stock to fund his research. The month his book was published, Wal-Mart announced it was doubling its organic food products. He has talked about organic food on CBS, ABC, CNN, the BBC and NPR. A native of Brooklyn, Fromartz lives in Washington D.C. with his wife and daughter. He grows vegetables in an organic garden a few blocks from the Capitol.

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