With Farm Leather LLC the SBIR awardee and recipient - principal also doing business as Farm Ingredients - business focus is described as rebuilding the supply chain infrastructure for rural regenerative ranchers to profit from their high value (e.g., organic, grass-fed, pasture raised, humane) animal byproducts. Emphasis on food-grade hydrolyzed collagen for the health and wellness industry. Project work focuses on the collection, initial processing, and preservation of non-feedlot animal hides that are currently being landfilled or composted. Principals also describe themselves as the sales and marketing representative for traceable leather that is: 1) Sourced from 100% grass-fed cows raised humanely on US regenerative farms, and 2) Vegetable-tanned in New York by Pergamena, a heritage family tannery.
