Our Cultivators
Read about some of the businesses that are participating in or have previously completed our Cultivate Accelerator program.
Ugly Duck Fine Foods
Fuelled by her passion for reducing food waste, Michele’s motto is that superficial imperfections don’t matter; quality does. She collects fresh, seasonal, imperfect produce direct from the farm and creates small batch fruit spreads, chutney, relishes and fruit pastes – many of which have won prestigious awards for quality and taste.
Aloe Beauty
Michele suffered from problem skin as a teenager, and recognised a gap in the market for age appropriate skin care. Using her background in health and wellbeing and her studies in clinical aromatherapy, Michele developed and launched Aloe Beauty.
Jalbi Australia
Health and home care brand Jalbi Australia are a female-founded, Indigenous, WA-based business that works with community to wild harvest the botanicals they use to create their unique botanical blends and formulations.
Chocolate on Purpose
Proud Wiradyuri woman Fiona combines sharing culture and gourmet chocolate through Chocolate on Purpose. Fiona creates artisan chocolate infused with Australian native edible and medicinal botanicals sourced from Indigenous farmers.
AP Bites
AP Bites cookie dough is perfect for everyone who enjoys cookie making, from young children keen to get creative in the kitchen, to families, to those who aren’t confident in their baking abilities.
Jay’s Dairy
Jayesh is passionate about providing customers with Australian made, authentic Indian foods. Jayesh’s range includes premium cow ghee, paneer, and dahi, all made in Perth with ethically sourced WA milk.
Rangoon Sunrise
Based on the ancient art of tea fermentation, Rangoon Sunrise is healthy, delicious, and the world’s first fermented tea sauce! Packed with a superfood boost, Mimi’s range includes fermented tea leaf dressing, and sun-kissed supercrunch. Both can be used to add authentic Burmese flavour as salad dressing, marinade, and tasty additions to everything from salads to pizza and noodles.
HUM HONEY
HUM HONEY’s bees live the good life, with unlimited access to pristine subtropical rainforests and open forest hardwoods. Their honey is harvested using only organic beekeeping methods, and bees are never treated with pesticides or other harmful chemicals.
Good Riddance
Good Riddance is uniquely formulated by Jeannie Lynch, a qualified cosmetic chemist who specialises in natural ingredients. While travelling around Australia with her family, she decided to leave her corporate career behind to follow her passion for natural skincare.
Kissing Chickens
Samara and Toni are ex-Nurses from the UK who founded Kissing Chickens – a natural deodorant brand. They want “To learn and be guided on how to grow our business, how to upscale and to supply large chain stores.”
Kaiyu Superfoods
Kaiyu Superfoods was founded by Cate & Pete who both wanted to get back to the land and farming, so they decided to combine farming with their passion for, and knowledge of native plants. After much research, they were disappointed to find that the same problems that faced the native fruit industry in the 1990’s still hadn’t been solved, with limited stock and few Indigenous growers and business owners in the industry (currently around 2%).
Deva Cacao
Deva Cacao produces organic raw chocolate naturally sweetened only with raw Australian bush honey. Free from dairy, gluten, soy, refined sugar,GMO ingredients, and artificial colours/flavours/preservatives. Absolutely no nasties!