Vital Farms is teaming up with food banks across the country to provide more than 19 million eggs to families in need. Local partners include: Central Texas Food Bank, Southwest Missouri’s Ozarks Food Harvest, South Atlantic grocery retailer Harris Teeter and Northern Illinois Food Bank. Pasture-raised egg donations provide a protein-packed food staple during a time of year when egg donations […]
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Vital Farms Expanding, Adding More Than 50 Full-Time Jobs In Missouri
Vital Farms, a Certified B Corp offering pasture-raised products nationwide, is expanding its operations in Springfield, Missouri, just three years after breaking ground on its first facility there. Dubbed “Egg Central Station,” the company’s 84,000-s.f. facility in Partnership Industrial Center West currently employs nearly 100 crew members. The expansion will add 64,000-s.f. of space and more […]
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Vital Farms Egg Donations Provide Protein For Food-Insecure Families
Protein-rich foods are extremely important for—and frequently requested by—families struggling with hunger. Pasture-raised egg producer Vital Farms helps meet that need for food-insecure individuals in Southwest Missouri by making regular donations to Ozarks Food Harvest, a Feeding America food bank. Since October 2016, Austin, Texas-based Vital Farms has donated 12 million eggs to Ozarks Food […]