{"id":4057,"date":"2014-11-05T17:58:16","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T22:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/?p=4057"},"modified":"2014-11-05T18:12:56","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T23:12:56","slug":"this-month-in-toronto-vegan-crowdfunding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/this-month-in-toronto-vegan-crowdfunding\/","title":{"rendered":"This month in Toronto Vegan Crowdfunding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are 2\u00a0Toronto Vegan Businesses looking for support right now.<\/p>\n<p>(Are there more? Please let me know.)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/project\/nona-vegan-foods-ltd\/embedded\/6313306\" width=\"222px\" height=\"445px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/project\/speckled-fawn-soaps-is-expanding\/embedded\/6313306\" width=\"222px\" height=\"445px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h1>Nona Vegan Sauces<\/h1>\n<p>I&#8217;ve written about <a title=\"New to Me: Soul to Bowl Sauces \u2013 Creamy Vegan Alfredo and Made in Toronto\" href=\"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/new-to-me-soul-to-bowl-sauces-creamy-vegan-alfredo-and-made-in-toronto\/\" target=\"_blank\">one of them before<\/a>\u00a0a whole bunch\u00a0and my love of their sauces &#8211; First of all &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/igg.me\/at\/nona\/x\/6313306\" target=\"_blank\">Soul to Bowl Sauces is now Nona Vegan Foods<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The creator and owner of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nonavegan\" target=\"_blank\">Soul to Bowl<\/a>, Kailey Gilchrist, is trying to expand her business, increase the shelf-life of her product, while unfortunately also needing to re-brand due to someone else staking claim to the Soul to Bowl name. Sadly, this means there will not\u00a0be any adorable Nonna cartoons\u00a0on their labels (at least for now,) but at least there will still be sauce.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I don&#8217;t like change, but the new labels are slowly growing on me. But it&#8217;s not about me.\u00a0I&#8217;m going to buy it whatever the label says, so if it attracts new people to the product, I&#8217;m happy. Besides&#8230; don&#8217;t judge a sauce by its cover or something.\u00a0It&#8217;s what&#8217;s inside that counts, and what&#8217;s inside is delicious.<\/p>\n<h2>Reasons why you should support this campaign:<\/h2>\n<p>Like I said, the sauces are delicious, you&#8217;re supporting a young, Toronto-based entrepreneur, build a business with a wide ranging appeal. It&#8217;s not just a vegan product, it&#8217;s also great for people with allergies (as long as those allergies aren&#8217;t nuts!) as these products are egg-free, gluten-free, and dairy-free. Plus, have I mentioned the sauces are delicious?<\/p>\n<p>I want to highlight the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/nona-vegan-foods-ltd\/contributions\/new?perk_amt=35&amp;perk_id=2431707\" target=\"_blank\">Sauce 4-Pack for $35 perk<\/a> because it&#8217;s probably my favourite, and is a great option for getting the sauce you (should) crave AND supporting a growing business. You can get a 4 pack of Nona Sauces and there is also a smoothie from Doug McNish&#8217;s Public Kitchen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/igg.me\/at\/nona\/x\/6313306\" target=\"_blank\">Indiegogo Campaign link<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Connect with them:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nonavegan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nonavegan\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nonavegan\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/nonavegan\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Speckled Fawn Soaps<\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4080\" src=\"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Speckled-Fawn-Soaps.jpg\" alt=\"Speckled Fawn Soaps\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Speckled-Fawn-Soaps.jpg 620w, https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Speckled-Fawn-Soaps-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Speckled-Fawn-Soaps-225x150.jpg 225w, https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Speckled-Fawn-Soaps-150x99.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/speckled-fawn-soaps-is-expanding\/x\/6313306\" target=\"_blank\">Speckled Fawn Soaps<\/a> is a relatively recent discovery &#8211; I first tried their wonderfully flavoured lip balms at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ApiecalypseNow\" target=\"_blank\">ApieCalypse Now Vegan Bakery<\/a> in the Annex where some of their products are available for sale. Operated by Hannah Bee, this vegan body care product company has traveled across an ocean, and is now local to Toronto.<\/p>\n<h2>Reasons why you should support this campaign:<\/h2>\n<p>The soaps and lip balms are lovely and smell wonderful. I&#8217;ve got relatively sensitive skin and the soaps have left me feeling pretty happy, and the different flavours of lip balm are divine (I got banana last time and\u00a0it smells and feels wonderful.)<\/p>\n<p>You would be helping a young, Toronto-based entrepreneur and educator expand her business and product line as well as offer classes so people can learn how to make their own soaps and body care products.<\/p>\n<p>I want to highlight the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/speckled-fawn-soaps-is-expanding\/contributions\/new?perk_amt=25&amp;perk_id=2425740\" target=\"_blank\">Can&#8217;t Choose Just One Promo for $25<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; you can get 2 bars of soap, and 2 lip balms of your choice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/speckled-fawn-soaps-is-expanding\/x\/6313306\" target=\"_blank\">IndieGoGo Campaign Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Connect with them:\u00a0<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/ca\/shop\/SpeckledFawnSoaps\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a>\u00a0(Etsy Store)\u00a0| <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SpeckledFawnSoaps\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are 2\u00a0Toronto Vegan Businesses looking for support right now. (Are there more? Please let me know.) Nona Vegan Sauces I&#8217;ve written about one of them before\u00a0a whole bunch\u00a0and my love of their sauces &#8211; First of all &#8211;\u00a0Soul to Bowl Sauces is now Nona Vegan Foods The creator and&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[356],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-toronto-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}