We’re the main veganically licensed fertilizer company in North America!

🚨Breaking Data! Cabbage Hill has been Licensed Veganic by the North American Veganic Certification Common. 🚨

The NAVCS‘s mission is to certify all North American producers and farmers all through the manufacturing and sale of fruits, greens, herbs, flowers, seeds, fiber crops, and compost who search veganic certification, no matter dimension or earnings stage. Their final function is to finish animal agriculture as shortly as and for all and fully transition to an ideal, 100% plant-based meals system.

Veganics is a gardening or farming philosophy that merely is each vegan and pure. 

Many vegans see chemical fertilizer as a result of the reply and loads of pure gardeners see animal-based fertilizers as greatest. Veganic gardening marries the best of each. Congrats you two!! 💒

Veganic furthermore frames the gardener or farmer as half of a a lot greater ecosystem. As such, veganic eschews the utilization of pesticides and herbicides and fungicides – pure or chemical. Veganics rejects the utilization of all chemical compounds and animal merchandise. In case your yard is someplace on the spectrum, that’s okay! We’re all on our personal paths and regularly evolving. 

Nonetheless merely know to make sure that you a licensed 100% animal-free, pure yard fertilizer, Cabbage Hill has the credentials. ✅✅✅

As a consequence of Jimmy Videle and Be taught Veganic for all the assistance! I sit up for all we’ll accomplish collectively. 

And there’s a LOT of labor to do!

I nonetheless register the shock on individuals’s face after I inform them pure greens are all grown in animals. Not poo or manure as they might assume, nonetheless rendered animal carcasses. Pure has been diluted to the place it’s downright harmful.

The entire points from banned antibiotics to endlessly chemical compounds have been present in pure yard merchandise. With Large Ag forcing its “waste” on pure farming and gardening, there’s actually been no place for aware clients to level out for secure, moral pure fertilizer.

Till now!

Cabbage Hill® Animal-Free Fertilizer is a hearts and minds promoting and advertising advertising marketing campaign. As CEO, I must embrace a “thought chief” mentality and take the time to indicate and encourage my prospects. Due to even mainly most likely essentially the most professional gardeners, even mainly most likely essentially the most militant animal-rights advocates, aren’t acutely conscious this drawback even exists. Successfully launching this company isn’t solely a push to get Cabbage Hill fertilizers on the shelf. It’s revealing a actuality to the general public. Its creating alliances all by means of the vegan and gardening and native local weather concern spectrums. That takes the time it takes. It’s good to blaze a path, nonetheless it’s time-consuming and unpredictable.

Being first on this residence permits me to boost shopper confidence in our model and naturally, buy an unlimited a part of the long run market…nonetheless that’s nothing to sleep on. All that to say, the time for funding is now. Like, right stinking now. An funding of 250K would permit me to instantly begin engaged on pure licensing and certification so we’re able to legally begin promoting, together with scaling the present enterprise mannequin.

I’ve discovered some pure fertilizer producers/mixers who maintain private label accounts. I think about that can probably be a logical first step for scaling up. I must analysis these contacts to ensure our processes and inputs is also licensed pure, CDFA-compliant, together with having the ability to present vegan certifications. That’s what Cabbage Hill can accomplish alongside collectively along with your funding.

Correct proper right here’s our up to date PITCH DECK. There’s the distinctive graphic model beneath and a “clear” model beneath that with out offensive pictures for delicate viewers. Please share our mission collectively along with your mates and colleagues.

ORIGINAL VERSION

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CLEAN VERSION

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HERE’S SOME MORE UPDATES FROM THIS LAST YEAR.

NEW DESIGN

The plan is to start out promoting at unbiased nurseries and even completely completely different areas like vegan outfitters and grocery retailers, nonetheless lastly the dream is to have animal-free Cabbage Hill fertilizers sitting side-by-side with commonplace yard fertilizers at massive self-discipline retailers. Our graphic labels are designed to assist Cabbage Hill fertilizers stand out from the opponents. The aesthetic might be designed to attraction to new gardeners: each urbanites and millenials: a fast-growing sector of yard prospects catered to by precisely no individual.

Till now!

We’ve a ravishing new mannequin and label. The porches and steps pictured on the label are paying homage to town stoops my household gravitated to for eavesdropping on the neighbors group. And regularly up entrance is Cabbage Hill’s signature black cat, throwing shade on animal-based fertilizers.

NEW PRODUCT

I furthermore determined it was excessive time to roll out a mannequin new fertilizer method. One that really embraces an enthusiastic group of latest youthful Plant Dad and mom who’ve adopted billions of those on account of the lockdown: houseplants!

PHOTOS & VIDEOS

And since we have now beautiful new labels, it was time to take some footage. We shot dozens of beautiful stills to grace our social media and net web page. I furthermore filmed a professional video to pitch Cabbage Hill together with a how-to video for the online web page.

NEW WEBSITE

Our beautiful new net web page has every half from our origin story to tutorial blogs to investor data. As shortly as we’re licensed, we’re able to activate the Shopify website for product gross sales.

🐈‍⬛  www.cabbagehillfertilizer.com

UPDATED SOCIAL MEDIA

Our social media was up to date with the mannequin new branding and I’ve created a LOT of vegan fertilizer content material materials supplies. For a lot of who uncover a platform Cabbage Hill shouldn’t be on, let me know! We’re in the least the scrolls @cabbagehillfertilizer.

SWAG

Our new mannequin and black cat aesthetic are too cute to not share wherever attainable. And truly, this branding actually helps carry our message. That is means over a product; it’s a motion people are going to search out out with and should present assist for.

NEW INVESTOR

Cabbage Hill now has 5 shoppers. Let me introduce all of them: Joan Valentine, avid gardener and a UCLA Distinguished Analysis Professor in BioChemistry; Mike Garcia, founding father of Enviroscape LA, a permaculture-certified, sustainable and native panorama contractor; Wendy Kohn, long-time gardener and retired Los Angeles Superior Courtroom choose; my buddy from my hometown of Lancaster PA and passionate gardener, Todd Metzger. Our latest investor is Kirsten Vangsness, an advocate, creator and actress who stars on the CBS drama sequence Felony Minds as fan favourite FBI Technical Analyst Penelope Garcia.

I’m absolutely honored to have these wonderful people as buddies, shoppers and advisors. And I can’t wait to incorporate you in that quantity.

NEW CONNECTIONS

The launch of Cabbage Hill in November ushered in new, thrilling connections. Assist & Feed’s Maggie Baird and I frolicked with the same cool mother buddies group when our children had been little. She has been a gracious advisor and had me on her Instagram LIVE (linked beneath). I even have obtained assist and encouragement from completely completely different heavy hitters like Farm Sanctuary’s Gene Baur, World of Vegan’s Michelle Cehn and UK vegan gardening professional Cleve West. I’ve had optimistic engagement with the Canadian-based group Be taught Veganic and the daddy of Veganics, Jimmy Videle, together with Animal Alliance Neighborhood, Vegan F.T.A., The Undisputable Vegans, Animal Save Motion and Los Angeles model, Don’t Eat the Homies.

Attorneys from Honest Begin Motion and Animal Security Partnership agreed to attach me with expert bono licensed assist to get our fertilizers licensed by the California Division of Meals & Agriculuture. They will assist guarantee Cabbage Hill is given an ideal shake by the CDFA and not at all persecuted for our activism.

Lastly, embracing the thought chief mentality, I’ve been spreading the message on podcasts and in on-line articles. There are fairly a couple of further to return once more this yr nonetheless listed under are the hyperlinks to what’s printed already. I hope you’re as impressed with Cabbage Hill as I’m. Thanks for studying this, and to your assist. That is one issue to be comfy with. And all of us want a bit bit little little bit of that right now. You presumably can contact me at [email protected] and it is potential you may regularly uncover me on social media. 🙏🏾

PODCASTS

Maggie Baird’s LIVE on Instagram

Inexperienced Thumb to Greener Planet – Composed Residing

When Greens Aren’t Vegan – Vedge Your Largest

Is Your Yard Fertilizer An Animal Graveyard – Plant Your self

ARTICLES

Vegan Girls Summit Girls Founders in Know-how Data

Vegconomist – Get the Crap out of Gardening

Innovation of the Day

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