#67 - 🦌 Managing Maui's Invasive Axis Deer For Regenerative Outcomes

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This Week’s Episode:

Highlights:

• 🛶 How Axis Deer came to Hawaii

• 🏄 Jake’s journey from Nova Scotia to Maui

• 🦌 Why Axis Deer populations increase so rapidly

• 🍖 Turning a removal project into a meat business

• 🤯 Their unique, stress-free, night-time harvesting process

• ⚙️ Building USDA-approved processing for Axis Deer

• 😮 Ecological and economic imperatives for eating Axis Deer

• 🎯 Accidentally creating the ‘perfect meat triangle’

• 🔥 Why taste and quality Always. Comes. First.

• 💥 Their upcoming broth collab with Kettle & Fire

Recap:

• Don’t have time for the full episode? 😵‍💫 

• Check out the recap! 🙃 

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

ReGen Brand Events:

🔥 Join the ReGen Brands team at Newtopia Now in Denver, CO August 25th-28th.

👉 Newtopia Now is a new kind of B2B trade event where brands and buyers connect in new ways and are empowered to co-create the next era of purpose-led CPG and retail through a deeper level of engagement. From curated, elevated matchmaking to interactive content and networking, all to build meaningful connections like never before.

ReGen Brand News:

🍓Michele’s Granola is launching Limited Edition Strawberry & Red Quinoa Granola, baked with SIMPLi Regenerative Organic Certified® Red Quinoa

• Every handmade batch of Strawberry & Red Quinoa Granola features the crispy, golden clusters of organic gluten-free oats that are a hallmark of Michele’s Granola, studded with gently toasted SIMPLi red quinoa.

• The granola is available in 12oz bags exclusively online.

🏃‍♂️ Quick Hits:

🌊 Atlantic Sea Farms CEO Briana Warner talks about the new moves to cultivate seaweed in the U.S., from ocean to plate.

🛒 Artisan Tropic products are now available at The Fresh Market & Harris Teeter.

🐥 Tree-Range Farms has received a loan from Steward to assist with purchasing chicks and feed for the 2024 growing season.

🍦 Alec's Ice Cream is now available at Gelson's Markets.

🌳 Burroughs Family Farms' Almond Butter is now available at Lazy Acres Natural Market.

👏 SIMPLi’s Co-Founder Sarela Herrada is awarded EY’s Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2024 Mid-Atlantic.

🥜 ADM is partnering with The J.M. Smucker Co. and the National Black Growers Council to promote the adoption of regenerative agriculture practices on 20,000 peanut acres in the southeastern United States.

🍕 ADM is partnering with Ooni Pizza Ovens to incorporate regenerative agriculture into pizza flour production in the UK.

ReGen Brand Jobs:

• 🫘 SIMPLi is hiring an Accountant, Supply Chain Manager & Area Sales Representative - Foodservice

• 🍚 Lundberg Family Farms is looking for a Human Resources Coordinator 

• 💊 Ancient Nutrition is hiring a Supply Chain Manager

• 🦬 Force of Nature is looking for a Trade Marketing Manager & Director of E-Commerce

Fun Stuff:

🔥 Check out this Regenerative Agriculture trends report from our friends at Socialike following podcast conversations with Big Picture Foods, Alec’s Ice Cream, Nutrient Density Alliance, and ReGen Brands!

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