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LundBerg

Back in ‘37, Grandpa Albert and Grandma Frances traded Nebraska and the Dust Bowl for Northern California and irrigation (a real game-changer). Their motto? “Leave the land better than you found it.” We’re still following in their footsteps.

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Featured Products

Available in our stores at Legge Organic Food Market

LundBerg

Rice

Rice Cakes

Rice Thins

Rice is a staple for more than 3.5 billion people around the world and the foundation for meals across cultures and cuisines. That means we have a massive opportunity to impact consumers’ plates and the planet. We’re betting the farm on it. In 1937, Great-Grandpa Albert and Great-Grandma Frances Lundberg left Nebraska in the wake of the Dust Bowl, which really blew. Literally. It was an environmental disaster caused by drought and destructive farming practices that blew the topsoil away from the Midwest. So, when Albert and Frances moved to California, they brought with them their four sons, a flatbed Chevy truck, a Farmall tractor, and a new philosophy: Leave the land better than you found it.  Albert Lundberg

A Real Farm and A Real Family

Soil Health We’ve never been afraid to grow our own way. In the 1940s, other farmers laughed at Grandpa Albert for plowing rice straw into the soil and growing cover crops instead of just lighting his fields on fire (really). But Grandpa Albert wanted to build soil health and protect air quality. Turns out, he was about 50 years ahead of the curve!

Organic Farming Call us the OGs of organic. In 1969, the second-gen Lundbergs planted their first crop of organic rice. By ’73, Homer Lundberg and 53 other local farmers were launching California Certified Organic Farmers (CCOF)—setting the standard for organic long before it was cool (or even federally recognized). Trendsetters? Maybe just a little.

Biodiversity California rice fields are for the birds—literally! Each winter, we flood some of our fields to replicate our region’s natural wetlands. We also grow cover crops, which provide nesting habitat for ducks. So, each spring, before the tractors start rolling, we rescue the eggs by hand. So far, we’ve saved an estimated 30K of the fuzzy little quackers!