Green PolkaDot Box

Delivering Non-GMO, Organic Food and Living Produce to Your Do...

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Green PolkaDot Box is an online membership club providing individuals and families natural, non-GMO products and organic choices for up to 60% off retail prices. We've built our brand on delivering delicious, nutritious, and healthy groceries to the doorsteps of over 5,400 families across America.

We believe that buying clean, healthy, organic food should not be a luxury that most cannot afford. Green PolkaDot Box was built on our family's dream to bring healthy options to areas where these foods are inaccessible or prohibitively expensive. We've now delivered the top organic brands to over 20,000 customers across the country.  The PolkaDot movement just keeps growing, and we're not slowing down anytime soon.

In October 2013 we broke ground on our first Living Produce Garden Center in Spring City, Utah. Our Spring City LPGC will consist of approximately 22 acres of greenhouses, constructed to accommodate our proprietary vertical farming solution. This facility will soon be able to produce and process over 26 million pounds of organic Living Produce each year.

Living Produce is just what it sounds like: fresh, living plants (including the roots!) delivered to your door within two days. In early 2014 we will commence shipping the first orders of Living Produce, thereby becoming the only provider to offer delivery of Living Produce.  And guess what?  You can get it here, first, before anyone else.

We are giving our amazing customers the ability to add fresh, living produce to their weekly orders and eliminate the pain of getting bruised, contaminated, or short-lived produce from the grocery store.  Through this campaign, new and current customers may get discounted memberships, store credit, and be the first in the country to have access to the best produce available on the market.  Thanks to your support, we will be able to expand our facilities and offer even fresher produce to every corner of the country.  Keep reading to learn about our mission, our new vertical farming facilities, and see exactly what you'll get for helping us grow!

Already the only major online provider that refuses to carry any products or ingredients containing GMOs, Living Produce is an innovation that will cement our position as the most convenient, affordable and reliable resource for healthy, natural and organic foods for families across the country.

Now that we have established a widespread demand for healthy options, we want to offer our thousands of satisfied customers yet another delicious perk. Your favorite resource for healthy food will soon be shipping fresh, clean, organic produce!

No more of those weekly trips to the store to purchase your produce -- which is actually harvested, on average, between 10-14 days before it hits the shelves! Yikes! (This is why your produce only lasts you a couple of days, or a week if you’re lucky.)

Living Produce™ will be grown in an indoor, climate-controlled, growing center. This will allow us to maintain a clean growing and handling environment. Our process eliminates contamination from pesticides, herbicides and cross-pollination of genetically modified organisms and harmful pathogens. In addition to greatly improving food safety, a controlled environment will enable year-round production of traditional, favorites, and even rare varieties that can be sometimes hard to find. Grown using vertical technology, Living Produce will require 88% less landmass for production and up to 95% less water than traditional farming. Not only will it require less space and water, but some varieties of produce have growing cycles of only 30-90 days; meaning harvest yields can be up to 12 times the normal yield of traditionally grown plants!

What does this mean for you?  Our Living Produce™ system will allow us to supply the best and most nutritious organic produce that has ever been made available. We’re asking you to participate in our project - help us continue to skip the wholesalers and retailers, and bring the savings straight back to you! Your contribution will enable us to deliver the freshest and most nutritional produce right to your front door -- within two days of harvest, guaranteed.

Access to our Living Produce™ is included in your annual membership fee, and we'll provide Living Produce™ subscription options to supplement your regular grocery orders.

Our customers understand the growing dangers associated with the mainstream food supply. More studies come to light each day, showing the various major health problems caused by GMO and non-organic foods. Furthermore, salmonella and other bacterias are being found daily in the U.S. food supply, due to unhygienic handling and contamination of produce, compounding public awareness and concern regarding the mainstream food sources. 

Sadly, natural, clean, organic food is often too expensive, and can be inaccessible in many regions, found only at speialty stores. This, despite the fact that consumer choice alone drove the organic foods industry to grow by 9.5% in 2012!

Green PolkaDot Box addresses all of these issues, with elegant and innovative solutions. Over 20,000 customers use Green PolkaDot Box to provide healthy foods to their families -- the question is, why aren't you?

Green PolkaDot Box is the only major online store that refuses to carry any products or ingredients containing GMOs. And we provide up to a 60% discount on these high-quality, healthy foods. And we deliver it to your door. AND we'll soon be delivering Living Produce™ to your door as well, providing your family unparalleled nutritional value. 

Our website, GreenPolkaDotBox.com, is dynamic and user-friendly, allowing you to narrow your search to the foods that are right for your family. Place your order with ease, saving you not just money and time, but also the hassle and stress of visiting the store. Check out all of the brands we carry here.

Our new Living Produce facilities will be proprietary vertical farms and greenhouses, allowing us to control the environment and the quality of the produce, ensuring high nutrient content. Furthermore, the produce will ship, roots and all, in a bag with water -- still growing and still densely packed with phytonutrients.

Green PolkaDot Box is a labor of love and a family affair, and we want you to join the GPDB family. You can count on us to do the homework to make sure that the foods in our shop are of the highest quality, safe, clean, non-GMO and, whenever possible, organic. We share a big vision: we want to make organic foods affordable to everyone. If you join us, you will help make that vision a reality. The GPDB is a membership organization intended to become the largest, most influential "buying collective" in America. With enough of us together, we'll be able to accomplish some wonderful things.

Become a Member of a Buying Club That Shares your values!

For only a $50 annual membership, GPDB members may shop by dietary requirements and choose from a wide range of shelf-stable packaged goods as well as frozen and fresh grocery items, including meats, fish, dairy, breads and soon, freshly harvested organic produce. Place an order of $75 or more and we'll get it to your doorstep within two days, for free! Our members save up to $250 each month buying their groceries through Green PolkaDot Box.

Living Produce: the Healthiest, Cleanest, Best Way to Feed Your Family

Produce grown in our proprietary vertical farm green houses is carefully monitored to ensure that it meets our stringent standards. These closed environments allow us to protect the produce from pesticides, herbicides and cross pollination with GMO crops. We filter the air and water systems and require clean handling, meaning your produce is protected from salmonella and other dangerous bacterias. 

Our produce is better looking, better tasting, longer living, and contains superior nutrient density. Because they are sent to you in a bag of water with their roots still intact, the plants remain alive 7-10 days before they begin to deteriorate and lose phytonutrient value -- whereas with typical produce you purchase it once it's already on the decline. 

Beyond all of the benefits for your family, Living Produce is great for our planet. Our vertical farms have a dramatically lower environmental impact, using 95% less water and 88% less land than traditional farming. Because we are able to control the growing environment, we have year-round production abilities and faster growing cycles -- lowering the cost of the produce and ensuring you can get your fruit and veg fix all year long!

Since launching our site in December of 2011, we have gained over 20,000 members, and we just keep growing! Below, a few of our most notable achievements to date.

In 2013, 88% of our members renewed their memberships, and new memberships are up 370%

Paid memberships are currently over 5,400 -- and expected to grow to more than 75,000 by the end of 2014

We sell more than 2,300 shelf-stable dry goods, frozen and refrigerated foods from over 250 organic and non-GMO healthy food manufacturers and growers

We secured a 10-year supply contract with Fresh Organics, a supplier for Kroger and Whole Foods among others

Purchased 40 acres in Spring City, Utah and a 40,000 sq.ft. facility, which will become our first vertical farm. We broke ground on 10/18/13.

We have a lot of plans in store for the years ahead. Below, a couple of our most exciting goals for the future of Green PolkaDot Box.

We will complete development of the Spring City Living Produce Garden Center. This facility will consist of 22 acres of greenhouses and a processing center, and will produce and process over 26 million pounds of organic Living Produce annually!

By the end of 2014, we will build three more facilities, in Minnesota, Florida and New York, enabling us to deliver more Living Produce to more people within 1 or 2 days, with a smaller carbon footprint

Pledge $50+
Enjoy one year of club membership and a $10 credit for groceries. Use Cook'n® software (developed exclusively for GPDB; $79 value) for organic and GMO-free cooking. Receive a Green PolkaDot Box postcard signed by the CEO and a thank you call! Call 87-POLKADOT to activate membership immediately.

Pledge $90+
Receive one year of club membership and a $20 grocery credit. Use Cook'n® software (developed exclusively for GPDB; $79 value) for organic and GMO-free cooking. Receive a Green PolkaDot Box postcard signed by the CEO and a thank you call! Call 87-POLKADOT to activate membership immediately.

Pledge $200+
Enjoy 4 weeks of Living Produce™ delivered to your door, one year of club membership, and a $25 grocery credit. Use Cook'n® software (developed exclusively for GPDB, a $79 value) and GMO-free cooking. Receive a Green PolkaDot Box postcard signed by our CEO, and a thank you call! Call 87-POLKADOT to activate membership immediately.

Pledge $1,500+
A Living Produce™ greenhouse will be named after you, with a plaque out front to prove it! Enjoy 26 weeks of Living Produce™ delivered to your door, one year of club membership, and a $25 grocery credit. Use Cook'n software (developed exclusively for GPDB, a $79 value) for organic and GMO-free cooking. Receive a Green PolkaDot Box postcard signed by our CEO, and a thank you call! Call 87-POLKADOT to activate membership immediately.

Pledge $5,000+
Visit historic Spring City, Utah and enjoy tours of our facilities and dinner with CEO Rod Smith! (Date to be determined, flight and hotel included) A Living Produce™ greenhouse will be named after you, with a plaque out front to prove it! Enjoy one year of club membership a $25 grocery credit, and 26 weeks of Living Produce™  delivered to your door. Use Cook'n® software (developed exclusively for GPDB, a $79 value) for organic and GMO-free cooking. Receive two t-shirts, a Green PolkaDot Box postcard signed by our CEO and a thank you call! Call 87-POLKADOT to activate membership immediately.

Rod Smith, CEO & President, has extensive business experience specializing in start-up and technology development. He is a dynamic entrepreneurial management strategist with a 25+ year record of achievement and he has demonstrated success by driving growth while providing winning leadership in highly competitive markets.
Mr. Smith founded GDPB in January 2008. He is skilled in capital formation and is responsible for successfully taking the private company he founded public. Former President and Founder of InContact (NASDAQ listed SAAS), formerly known as Buyers United and BuyersOnline, it was one of the first companies in the world to establish an online billing user interface.

William Roberts, Director, is currently the President of Geico Insurance. He has served as Senior VP of Geico's four insurance companies with responsibility for marketing, underwriting and pricing for each of these companies since 1997. Mr. Roberts brings wisdom grounded in experience, expertise and enthusiasm for our missions to grow Green PolkaDot Box.

Andrew Smith, Director, has worked in public accounting as an auditor and business consultant for 11 years. He has been a controller, business manager and financial officer for 23 years in several startup and early stage growth companies. He has over 30 years of valuable experience in leadership and management of financial accounting functions, corporate finance and human resources. Andrew is not related to CEO Rod Smith.

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