Cluster of organic product producers continues to grow

Some of the biggest pioneers in the natural and organic products industry have sprouted in the Boulder Valley – from WhiteWave Foods Co. Silk soy milk to Rudi’s Organic Bakery products and Celestial Seasonings Inc.’s Sleepytime tea.

In recent years, a new crop of local natural and organic companies and products have started to make the big-time nationally, including 34 Degrees’ crackers and Justin’s Nut Butter LLC’s nut butters and candy bars.

Vegetarian entrepreneur Steve Demos started the original WhiteWave tofu company in the late 1970s. But he likes to say that it was Silk soy milk flavors that were the rocketship…