John Kempf pitches Advancing Eco Agriculture's WeFunder crowdfunding campaign, which closes April 26 at midnight. Nearly 500 investors have already contributed over $2M. Agronomists, farmers, and consultants explain why they backed it: AEA's training programs and commitment to scaling regenerative agriculture worldwide.
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Midnight on Friday, April 26 (to invest via WeFunder).
Close to 500 people had invested, totaling over $2 million.
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Hi friends. You have until midnight on Friday, April 26th to invest in our public crowdfunding campaign through We Funder. I would invite all of you to do so and to join the close to 500 people who've invested over $2 million in AEA at this point. And I want to say thank you to everyone who has invested already. And here are a few of them who have shared their reasons for why they're investing in aea. Thank you all.
Hi, my name is Claudia Benn and I'm an agronomist and a grazier. Here in Queensland, Australia. We grow organic grass fed beef on our family property and in my agronomy role I work in quite a similar space to aea and so I really want to put my money where my mouth is basically and very happy to support anyone that's working hard to improve our global agricultural industry and also to protect and restore our natural resources and our ecosystems. So love what you do, Proud to be a supporter and can't wait to see where you go with this next venture.
Thank you.
My name is John Pierce and honestly I've never invested formally into anything until now and that's mostly due to I've never fully agreed with the company or its mission until knowing that AEA was doing around. So I just wish you all the best. I think it's incredible the work that you guys do and the results you see.
My name is Erin Crampton. I'm a consultant from British Columbia up in Canada. Advancing Eco Agriculture is the only advisory consultancy group that I found whose standard of consultant training and education is consistently trustworthy, reliable and potentially scalable. AEA is also the only consultancy I have found whose mission is not linked to personal ego. It's linked to the regeneration of the planet and its inhabitants. That's why I invested.
My name is Lawrence Van Glaarn. I'm a regenerative farmer myself and I truly love your work. I would like to see AEA prosper and lead the world and to regenerate a future. Thank you for your amazing work. Keep on rocking.
My name is Paul Ruger and 25 years after I left the farm I grew up on, I decided to manage my family's farm. This growing season will be my second year farming. While researching how I should farm, I came across AEA on YouTube and Apple Podcasts. The content made complete sense to me and I quickly decided that a focus on biology while moving away from chemistry is how we needed to farm. This year my family is moving back to the farming community. Where I grew up, I see the wave of consumers and businesses getting behind Regen Ag. I see AEA leading the way in this transformation and I would definitely like to be part of it.
I'm Kate Valetsky. As a person with a science based background but also a small scale property owner and aspiring farmer using ecologically centered approaches to land management in South Africa, I'm interested in learning and growing Southern African knowledge and access to technology and information. The skills and knowledge shared through the AEA has been invaluable to me and I would like to see the AEA and its offering grow and expand into regions outside of the US to support regeneration in my own area.
Thanks for listening friends. We care about community. Community is powerful, relationships are powerful and a motivating force for us to choose to go in this direction of a community fundraising campaign was to allow community and our supporters to participate in our growth and our success. We stand on the edge of significant change in the agricultural space. Regenerative agriculture is having its moment in the sun. There are very few companies that can say they have a decade and a half of a track record and experience in helping growers to transition at a significant scale and we want our community to be able to be a part of our success going forward. So thank you for listening. Thank you for being here. We hope that you contribute and even if you don't, we hope that you will continue to be supporters of all of our work, of the greater community as a whole in the regenerative agriculture space.
