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NIKU Farms

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Co-Founders: Jake Goldberg & Luke Armstrong

Website: https://www.nikufarms.com/ (external link) 

Trust the Meat You Eat

NIKU Farms is an online platform that connects people directly to local high welfare farms, to have meat delivered to their home directly from their local farmers. Our focus is supporting local small scale farmers in Ontario who are raising their animals the natural way on pasture, with no antibiotics, no added hormones, and non GMO.

The meat industry is one that has grown to rely on large scale industrialized farming practices. A few large distributors dictate prices in the market, and the rest of the small scale farms are squeezed on earning potential. This is a major problem as only 23% of farms in Ontario have sales over $250k annually. This means roughly 38,000 farms in Ontario alone are forced to participate in a system that doesn’t have their interests in mind. The average farmer only makes $0.16 for every retail $1.00 of meat sold.

We need a solution that financially supports farmers that are raising animals the natural way (on pasture, no antibiotics, no added hormones, and non GMO). We need a solution that easily matches the socially responsible consumer with a small scale farm, keeping more money in the local economy.

NIKU Farms is on a mission to change this broken system by connecting small scale farmers with health conscious consumers to the source of their ethically raised meat. We are a mission driven company and are focused on solving these problems by cutting out the middlemen, providing farmers with direct access to their customers, and enabling customers to have full traceability of their food. We only partner with farms who share our high ethical and health standards for meat, and we promote them on our platform. NIKU facilitates a 3rd party courier to deliver the packages directly from the farm to the customer’s door.

NIKU wants to ensure that we are improving the access that people have to ethically raised meat. The meat in the grocery stores is not what it used to be, and we all have the right to know where our food is coming from - the farmers that are raising the animals the natural way is the future, and they need our help.