#49 - Regenerating Australia's Wheat Belt & Painterland's BIG Funding Round

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This Week’s Episode:

Highlights:

• 👏 Their mission to regenerate the Western Australian wheat belt

• 🔮 How Jay met the Founders and joined the team

• 🥩 Bringing better food to Western Australia

• 🍔 Landing a burger joint to catalyze their brand

• 📈 Growing Dirty Clean Food to $12M

• 🥛 Launching the world’s 1st regenerative oat milk

• 💰 Sweetening the economics of sweet lupins

• 💥 Introducing Buntine Protein® - a better plant-based protein

• 🔥 Why Buntine Protein® is better

• 👍 Tackling local and global impact at once to scale regen

Recap:

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• Check out the recap! 🙃 

• Everything you need to know in less than 5 minutes. 🥳

ReGen Brand News:

👏 Painterland Sisters has raised $1.2M on WeFunder

• They boast 700+ investors across 14 countries

• 37% of investments are from Pennsylvania

• The average investment is $1,930

• 78% of their investors are first-time Wefunder investors

🏃‍♂️ Quick Hits:

🔥 Singing Pastures is making a case for regeneratively-farmed meat snacks. “We don’t just support regenerative agriculture, we live it.”

📋 Kiss The Ground’s new Regenerative Purchasing Guide features regen brands “you can find at your grocery store.”

🍷 Troon Vineyard leads the industry with nutritional, ingredient, and packaging barcodes on bottles.

The Non-GMO Project's new report, Who Is the Natural Shopper in 2024?, shows that 78% of adult shoppers agree that “the health of the soil impacts the nutrition in my food” while 61% agree that “organic and regenerative farming can improve the nutrient density of our food.”

🎟️ Burroughs Family Farms is hosting their 3rd annual Regenerative Almond Field Day on February 22nd.

🌿 Ancient Nutrition & Gaia Herbs are each powering growth with their company-owned ROC™ farms.

🥩 Grass Fed Foods is rolling out its latest product line that caters to kids.

🏅 Regenerative agriculture certifications are booming right now. Are they worth it?

🍇 ‘It’s the Wild West for regenerative viticulture right now’ - with strong proponents and strong opponents of 3rd party certifications.

🍞 Farmer Direct Foods and other bakery suppliers are leaning into regenerative agriculture practices.

👏 Herb Pharm announces their first Regenerative Organic Certified® product – Rosemary!

👀 Climate Collaborative has released an updated Regenerative Agriculture Certscape featuring information on 5 programs.

ReGen Brand Jobs:

• 🍷 Bonterra Organic Estates is looking for a District Manager - New York Metro & District Manager - Upstate New York

• 🤝 The Rodale Institute is hiring a Markets Coordinator

• 🥚 Handsome Brook Farms is looking for a Director of Pasture Management

• 🦬 Force of Nature is hiring a Manager / Director of FP&A, Director of E-Commerce, & Director of Food Safety & Quality Assurance

• 🍚 Lundberg Family Farms is looking for a Distribution Center Manager, Data Processing Manager, Account Manager, Food Safety Quality Engineer, Financial Analyst, Sales Coordinator, & Supply Planner

• 🍽️ Patagonia Provisions is hiring a Digital Marketing Specialist

• 🫘 SIMPLi is looking for a Customer Accounts Specialist (based in the US) & Director of Finance (based in Peru)

• 🥣 Seven Sundays is hiring a Quality Manager

• 🥛 Danone is looking for a Senior Manager Regenerative Agriculture Innovation

• 🔵 Blue Quest is hiring a Project Manager

• 🌾 Wildfarmed is looking for a Sales Executive (based in the UK)

• 🥑 La Tourangelle is hiring an E-Commerce Specialist

• 🦴 Kettle & Fire is looking for a Director of Sales - West

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