GreenGrowth is a Nepal based Foodtech company working on promoting Local/Organic/Healthy vegetables, fruits, and value-added products. The idea is “directly linking the producers to the consumers” by using new media and technology. The company also works to create awareness trips and events on healthy food consumption and environment.

Stories

Green Growth has a unique story of how it started. It was incubated inside the Story Cycle which is a multimedia and map-based storytelling organization. Back in 2014, while the Story Cycle was traveling to Jumla district with Story Camp which is a workshop for people demonstrating the ability of digital storytelling to bring out unheard voices of a community, we got good feedback, which we were also asked to prove demonstrated tools in the real world.

We accepted it and they sent us a ton of Jumla walnuts and Marsi rice which we sold within a couple of months using our social media network. It was the exact beginning of the concept of Green Growth and a sustainable urban food system. Initially, we continued promoting it because we enjoyed the sense of feeling that we are practicing something that represents an interdependent nation.

Then the Earthquake happened, StoryCycle and its team were fully engaged in relief. On the way or relief work, we landed in Kavre district which had a farm called Patale gaun Organic farm. The produces were so good but the vacuum created because of Earthquake and blockade remained for a longer period, the farm already had its clients [outlets] but they were having a hard time, so they dropped their product at the workstation and since we were selling few local products already, so vegetable was also included on our promoting list.

As slowly green growth gained momentum inside Kathmandu, a variety of products were added, we realized how important the food system is in our lives. Many of alike businesses evolved as Green Growth systematized which also has helped to promote safe food culture among the urban consumer.

In October of 2016, Green Growth was registered legally with core team members Saurav Dhakal, Deepika Gyawali, Nischal Pokharel, and Samita Kapali with the objective of linking the producers to the consumers directly by using new media technology along with less environmental degradation.

In March of 2019, Seed investors funded Green growth to broaden its market and systematize. As Green Growth developed, it also broadened its vision from a sustainable urban food system to promote the circular economy and develop the products accordingly and it has been working with different organic and local producers from Kavre, Sindhuli, Khotang, Saptari, Humla, Jumla, Mustang, Nuwakot, Biratnagar, Mahottari, Dolpa, etc

Product One: Weekly Bucket

We are using social media as a weapon to channelize the products from Farm to Home. With the vision of establishing sustainable food ecosystem throughout the country #GreenGrowth as a social media platform and http://greengrowth.life as its official website takes orders from the consumers to compile them and place the orders to the producers so that they can send us their produces which we package and deliver to the respective consumers as a Weekly Bucket.

Product Two: GreenGrowth Travel

When we think of the joys that come with the adventures of traveling, we often envision exciting trips to beautiful places fit for a perfect photograph, unique foods that we won’t find at home, and encounters with people who are much different from those we are accustomed to. People who seek wilderness and natural experience of living remotely at isolated places to enjoy ecotourism, something that would not be experienced in urban areas. Designed for those people who want to learn and experience how their food is procured, how farming is like, or learning about ingenious solutions are often quite interesting and Green Growth enables the vision of how successful man can be when he works with nature.
We have helped Patale Gaun organic farm (one of the partner farms of Green Growth) at Kavre build the farm stay facility and promoted a one-night stay package. We have succeeded to take more than 500+ tourists (domestic/international) groups from 2016 till now.

Product Three: Green Growth Garden

We are helping urban and suburban farmers for gardening, constructing farm, designing garden and landscape planning. We have a group of experts who are providing consulting services and tips and techniques for sustainable farming, which we have utilized to develop greenery at Nepal Art Village, Sindhuli Agro Company. Ideally, Green Growth garden is more focussed to support it’s partner farm to adopt sustainable farming and climate-smart agricultural techniques, sustainable farming.

Partnered Farms

• From Patale Gaun Farm, Kavre we delivered different organic vegetables and local organic products to the consumer.
• From Chisapani Co-operative Sindhuli, Junar
• From Sindhuli Agro Company we delivered Fruits like lychees,, Mangoes, Jackfruits etc
• From Manglung Farm, Ilam we delivered Green tea
• From Myagdi, Timur and Lasun Chop
• From Shreepur, Saptari: Mangoes
• From Dhye, Musang: Dewa Apples
• From Saugat Sindhuli: Lentils, Flour and homemade products

Guidelines of our working modality

1. Based on a sustainable individual lifestyle we shall promote more local, seasonal plant-based diet, solar panels on the house, biking or walking to work, recycling, organic fair-trade food, and other green choices on what we consume, what we wear, what mobility option we adapt.
2. We shall also motivate our producers or farmers or service holders to adopt sustainable ways of production and create a group of followers who actively campaign for forming sustainably sound cities.
3. We shall start an organic food club, local producer clubs – share stories with club members, sometimes social media pages also work to make interesting groups and campaign on campus.
4. We must start working with the small and middle business community, buying from local food and product, promoting local cafes /restaurants rather than franchises is also a good way to promote Economic Democracy.
5. All-natural resources must be utilized efficiently and the ecological way possible within our processes and production cycle also shall motivate others. Reuse Reduce Refuse and Recycle should be implemented.
6. We shall make use of a circular economy that can benefit each other within the production cycle.
7. Be locally integrated with local products, local skills, and crafts to create local jobs.
8. We shall not promote environmentally unsustainable products throughout the entire process. Be reasonably seasonal in nature. Sustainable technology can be employed to expand growing seasons
9. We shall develop a guideline to fulfill all our principles to be implemented by stakeholders and beneficiaries. Be diverse for the scale of operation, range of foods, type of product strategy, and background of farmers.
10. Emphasize promoting a sustainable transportation system for food supply.
11. We will focus on making the Green Growth carbon neutral.