Our mission is to deliver nutritious, beautiful Purple Tomatoes™ to customers who embrace biotechnology for good and value our commitment to positive impact.

Our Story

Norfolk Healthy Produce

The NHP Team

Dr. Nathan Pumplin
CEO
Entrepreneur and Plant Biologist

  • Operations

    Ian Baker

    Magdalene Burgess
    Bobby Michel
    Gerty Cori Ward

  • Advisors

    Harry Klee
    Dave Lawrence
    Wayne Merkelson
    David Saravitz
    Lisa Zannoni

Norfolk Healthy Produce: Bringing Innovation to Market

Norfolk Healthy Produce is a US-based speciality seed company, founded in Dec 2021 and headquartered in Davis CA.  Our flagship product is The Purple Tomato™ a bioengineered tomato whose purple color reflects increased antioxidant content, specifically anthocyanins—the same class of anti-inflammatory antioxidants found in blueberries. 

The Purple Tomato completed its US regulatory path with the USDA in September 2022 and the FDA in June 2023, and most recently has gotten approval to sell in Canada and is under review in Australia.   

NHP now has 3 varieties of home gardener seed and 2 varieties of commercial seed, with an active breeding pipeline. Norfolk Healthy Produce sells Purple Tomato seeds through their website to home gardeners, partners with Raker Roberta’s to sell seedlings in retail garden shops, and partners with Red Sun Farms to sell Empress Purple Tomatoes in retail grocery stores.

CEO Nathan Pumplin, an entrepreneur with biotechnology commercialization and research backgrounds, leads Norfolk Healthy Produce.

Norfolk Plant Sciences: A Source of Innovation

NHP is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Norfolk Plant Science, and together the companies are dedicated to developing and marketing products that meet consumer and partner needs, using the cutting-edge and safe innovations of plant science. The company was established by world-renowned Professors Cathie Martin and Jonathan Jones to enable their ground-breaking plant research to make a positive impact in people’s lives.

The Founding Team 

  • Prof. Cathie Martin

    Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE), Fellow of the Royal Society, Rank Prize for Nutrition

  • Prof. Jonathan Jones

    Fellow of the Royal Society and US National Academy of Sciences

  • Stephen Thomson

    Experienced board member, non-executive director and investor

  • Dr. Eric Ward

    Co-CEO AgBiome raised >$250M, former President of Syngenta & Novartis Ag Biotech

Norfolk Healthy Produce

2800 5th Street, Suite 110
Davis, CA 95618
+1 (707) 418-8016​
info@norfolkhealthyproduce.com

Norfolk Plant Sciences

50 Broadway
Suite 1, 7th Floor
London SW1H 0BL