We've got big plans to put organic food on the table of every Australian household. And we need your help to #spreadthelove about healthy living, organics and sustainability.

It's taken our small team two years and a lot of hard work to get marqet.com.au to launch, but we've developed Version 1.0 of what we hope will become the Amazon.com of organic food and products.

We've been piloting in Melbourne over the past six weeks and, with your help, plan to take Marqet to every Australian city and town and raise the profile of organics and sustainability even further.  

OKAY, SO WHAT IS MARQET, EXACTLY?

With the Amazon analogy in mind, Marqet is a dedicated online marketplace that allows you to buy directly from organic farmers, producers and brands in one convenient place.

Marqet's free for both buyers and sellers to use. The only charge is that sellers pay a percentage on each transaction. That said, it's written into Marqet's constitution that this percentage goes (and always will go) directly back into developing the Marqet platform to make it even better for farmers and consumers, as well as into advertising/marketing to help us #spreadthelove and take Marqet to as many Australians as we possibly can.



Simply put, we want to give organic farmers and producers the vehicle to reach more Australians than ever before, while reconnecting Australians with the people who grow their food. Out of this and over time, we hope that Marqet will become the catalyst to reinvigorate and strengthen our rural economies through community-supported agriculture.

We're also going for organic certification within the next 12 months and, over time, will aiming to work towards gaining B Corp certification, which basically means Marqet can only make a profit from doing to the greatest good.

Marqet launched on September 15, so you can actually buy limited organic products within Marqet right now :)

We're also hoping to launch Marqet's own dedicated health, wellbeing and sustainable living online magazine in the next couple of months. 

WHO'S HELPING US SPREAD THE LOVE SO FAR?



Greg Paynter | Former chair of the Organic Federation of Australia

"Marqet provides connection between consumers wanting to source organic products and fresh food from producers and processors, it allows the producers to realise fairer returns for their efforts to produce sustainable, safe and local supply of food and fibre. Marqet also provides a common brand for producers to sell their collective goods and gives consumers confidence in the integrity of certified organic goods purchased."



Kate Worth | Founder of Go Natural

"As a passionate foodie and lover of all things organic, I think Marqet has the capacity to revolutionise how we buy organic food here in Australia – and around the world. Go Natural is proud to be working with Marqet to take organics and sustainability to a much wider audience."



Vinita Baravkar | Founder of Bhumi Organic Cotton

"We are very excited to be working with Marqet. It's a unique place of connection to local organic and sustainable products, services and initiatives. With all of these businesses working together with Marqet, we collectively increase the effort and potential available for creating something even more meaningful to the Earth and humanity."



Scott & Sarah Butler | Founders of Organic Angels

"Organic Angels is happy to be part of Marqet, by sharing our passion for a healthy Australia and assisting us to promote organic food and products to the wider community."

There are a number of organic brands and producers within the marketplace already – and more to come over the next four to six weeks and beyond. At this stage, fresh produce is limited to Melbourne metro, but we should have fresh organic box delivery brands onboard in each of the capital cities in the very near future. Watch this space

And many thanks to Bhumi and Go Natural for kindly donating the bulk of our rewards :)

And many thanks to all our friends who're helping us %23spreadthelove. You rock :)

OUR INITIAL TARGET – ALL OR NOTHING ($7,500)

%20 Further develop the platform to create Marqet Version 2.0, which will add a number of 'bells and whistles' to automate a lot of the platform's necessary day-to-day management and, importantly, add important features for organic producers and brands using Marqet to make their lives even easier. 

%20 As part of Marqet Version 2.0, develop the early beginnings of a geo-targeted hub to promote organics, health/wellbeing and sustainability-driven projects and initiatives.

%20 Pay for digital advertising space to promote a very fun, fresh digital ad campaign we've got up our sleeve.

%20 Given founder Richie's vast experience in digital, brand and advertising, we can do amazing things with small amounts of money :)

STRETCH GOAL ($25,000)

%20 Also develop Marqet Version 3.0, which will add a comprehensive suite of organic producer-focused online tools and features to help them plan their yields and provide them with an in-depth, unprecedented virtual logistics system.

%20 Vastly improve the website's user experience for both organic buyers and sellers.

%20 With the vision we have in mind, develop a fully fledged version of Version 2.0's geo-targeted hub for organics, health/wellbeing and sustainability-driven projects and initiatives.

%20 To a lesser extent, engage a photographer to shoot our current wish list of Marqet-related photography.

ULTIMATE GOAL ($60,000)

%20 Take the Marqet platform to a completely different level in terms of functionality and user experience for both organic buyers and sellers.

%20 Kickstart the funding of a variety of different organics, health/wellbeing and sustainability-driven projects and initiatives. 

%20 And tick everything else off our very long 'wish list' :)

Thanks for taking an interest in Marqet and thanks in advance for helping us %23spreadthelove about healthy living, organics and sustainability.

Thanks again :)

Rich, Rache and Oli | Marqet's founders

Our biggest challenges are time and money.

As comprehensive as Marqet Version 1.0 is, the management of the platform, itself, on a day-to-day basis can be time consuming – time that could be better spent getting more organic brands and producers into Marqet, developing fun, fresh digital advertising campaigns to help expose more Australians to the wonderful world of organics and allow us to spend even more time with Oli :)

There are a number of 'bells and whistles' we need to develop into the platform, which will automate a number of things and, in turn, drastically reduce this time. Like anything, though, we need the money to do it and, being a family run business with a small team, we're simply slowed down by availability of funds.

We've got the blueprint of how we're going to do it and everything mapped out. Together, we can fast track what will take us another 18 months, on a basic level, and do it in three months.