Vital Farms 2026 Impact Update
Vital Farms releases their latest impact report.
Matt O'Hayer, Founder
SJF Impact
Sustainability and Climate Resilience
SJF invests in companies that support shifting consumer preferences toward more sustainable, ethical, and transparent production. These companies realize focusing on multiple stakeholders, both people and planet, leads to more sustainable business growth.
Our Strategy in Sustainability
and Climate Resilience
SJF invests in products and services that mitigate environmental harm and help community resilience and adaptability in a changing environment. SJF further focuses on solutions that create shared interest among multiple constituencies, including consumers, workers, local and global environments, partners and suppliers. We believe sustainable products and systems are most durable when they strengthen the economic well-being of the communities they touch.
While much of SJF’s investment activity in this area has focused on food systems – which have substantial impact potential for the environment, worker economics, consumers and others – other areas of interest have included sustainable packaging, nature-based carbon projects, and AI-enhanced climate adaptation tools.
Pop quiz
How much of global GDP could be lost by 2050 if climate targets are not met?
Answer: 18%.
8%. Swiss Re Institute estimates the world stands to lose nearly one-fifth of total economic value by 2050 if temperature rises stay on their current trajectory — and that's before accounting for the cascading effects on communities, ecosystems, and livelihoods. SJF portfolio companies like Revalue Nature and Lium are building the systems and tools that help people and places become more resilient before disruption hits.
Our Impact Objectives in this Sector
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1Advance More Sustainable Products and Systems
Promote the production of goods that require fewer carbon emissions, generate less plastic waste and other pollutants, and preserve our land and water systems.
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2Build Adaptive and Resilient Systems in a Changing Environment
Strengthen the ability of communities, businesses and ecosystems to anticipate, withstand and recover from climate-driven disruptions.
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3Promote Systemic Ethical Treatment of Stakeholders
Advance fair, responsible practices supporting the well-being of consumers, workers, environments, partners, suppliers and broader communities.
SJF quickly understood why consumers love pasture-raised eggs and why the principles of conscious capitalism are core to what we do. That helped us to select SJF as our first institutional investor.”
Impact Highlights
1,013,000
hectares of land
secured by Revalue Nature for next-generation projects to fight against deforestation and avoid carbon emissions as of 2025
>275
independent family farms
supported with expert advice and fair pay in Vital Farms’ supplier network at the time of exit; over 600 today
Sustainable Products and Consumption Spotlights
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TemperPack Becomes Certified B Corporation
In April, TemperPack announced it earned certification as a B Corporation from B Lab, with an overall B Impact Score of 98.8. SJF, whose management company is also a Certified B Corp, supported TemperPack throughout the assessment and certification process.
TemperPack 2025 Impact Report
“When we founded TemperPack more than a decade ago, we were guided by a simple belief: the packaging that protects products should not come at the expense of the planet"
Setting the Standard: How Community-Led Baseline Monitoring Is Reshaping Carbon Projects in Ruvuma
In Tanzania’s Ruvuma region, Carbon Tanzania and its partner, Revalue, are redefining social impact monitoring with a statistically-driven, community-led approach.
Vital Farms 2025 Impact Report
This 2025 Impact Report describes how Vital Farms' results-driven, holistic approach to stakeholder resilience comes to life.
Vital Farms releases its 2024 Impact Update
Vital Farms released a 2024 Impact Update, describing its results-driven approach to improving the lives of people, animals, and the planet through food.
Vital Farms wins FOOD ENGINEERING’s 2023 Sustainable Plant of the Year
Vital Farms hatched a plan to create a model of sustainability for Egg Central Station, which is why it’s FOOD ENGINEERING’s 2023 Sustainable Plant of the Year.
