2025 Natural Grocers Sustainability Report

Since our founding in 1955, Natural Grocers ® has been committed to offering quality products at affordable prices, nutrition education, and caring for our customers, Crew and communities. These are our Five Founding Principles, which today many would recognize as sustainability principles, and they continue to drive every aspect of our business practices. Statement on Sustainability

We believe that grocery stores play a pivotal role in the food chain, a system that is essential to health and wellbeing. We choose to positively impact the ways that food in this nation is grown, raised, and sold. We aim to offer nutritionally sound, environmentally responsible products, and prioritize vendors and farmers who are as passionate about human health, animal welfare, and the health of our planet as we are. We believe that our company’s greatest opportunity to positively impact human health, environmental sustainability, and animal welfare is through our rigorous product standards . We prioritize products that are produced with regenerative and sustainable agricultural practices, which support the quality of soil, water, air, as well as biodiversity. We are committed to dairy, egg, meat, and seafood standards that nurture the welfare of animals and support farming communities. We strive to offer pricing that makes regenerative, sustainable, and healthful choices more affordable for our customers, Crew and communities. We were founded on the conviction that nutrition is the foundation of good health, and that free nutrition education empowers our customers,

Crew and communities to improve their well being. Like our product standards, our approach to nutrition education is evidence-based and research backed. In FY 2025, we invested more than $7 million to offer free nutrition education services, provided by our Nutritional Health Coaches, to benefit the health and wellness of our customers, Crew and communities. We strive to hire Crew who share our values. Our Crew are guided by our Five Founding Principles and are dedicated to upholding these values throughout our stores, operations, and supply chain. We support our Crew members’ pursuit of healthy, balanced lifestyles by providing free nutrition education, compensation above minimum wage, robust discounts and store credit, and comprehensive benefits. We support non-profit groups committed to the health and well-being of our communities and the environment.

OUR FIVE FOUNDING PRINCIPLES SUPPORT THE PLANET AND ITS INHABITANTS To demonstrate the interconnectedness, each page of this Sustainability Report includes tags identifying the Five Founding Principles in action and the beneficiaries.

PLANET

NUTRITION EDUCATION

QUALITY

CREW

ALWAYS AFFORDABLE SM PRICING

COMMUNITY

ANIMAL WELFARE

HEALTH

PEOPLE

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FISCAL YEAR | 2025