Creative ideas spur natural/organic sales

BOULDER — Some business mavericks with nontraditional ideas are helping the natural and organic foods and products industry thrive in Boulder County.

For example, Pangea Organics now sells skin-care products at home parties rather than in retail stores, according to Joshua Onysko, company president. Boulder Homemade Inc., makers of Boulder Ice Cream and Figo Organic Gelato, has a small cadre of investors willing to write checks for thousands of dollars on the strength of a phone call from Scott Roy, company president.

Workers at Organic Food Brokers LLC in Boulder vote on the firms with whom the company could form partnerships, said…