New Mohawk Nevada City CA 95959
Shady Creek Trading Company is excited to enter their seed round capital raise to produce and distribute cannabis infused wild meat jerky products. Co-created by Settler’s Jerky founder, Shady Creek Trading Co. is an infused jerky products and distribution corporation located in Nevada City, California. Nomad Jerky Bites is our premier product. A packaged pouch with hearty bites of ethically raised buffalo, fortified with THC.
Shady Creek Trading Co. will also offer white labeling services. Collaboration builds the brand & multiple streams of income. Shady Creek Trading Co. has multiple letters of intent to white label pre rolls, proprietary tinctures, and topicals for other brands and the space and ability to fulfill them.
Settlers Jerky Inc.
Joe Anderson was and still is an owner of a USDA meat processing company that manufactures beef
jerky snacks that he started with his wife in 1977. Joe's adult children run the day to day operations of
that facility now.
Joe Anderson was a truck driver for a sausage company in Los Angeles. One day on his route a busi-
ness owner no longer wanted to make jerky products. So, he gave Joe some equipment to manufacture jerky.
Joe rented a small building with his wife Dena and set up a USDA plant in San Gabriel, CA. And
from there on the business just keep growing. The Andersons are the longest running jerky
manufacturing family In the Country. They are the innovators of the industry and have been coming up
with new flavors and products long before competitors. With over 30 years of experience their
reputation and quality have never been matched. Joe has been involved with all types of fundraising
using the jerky to raise funds for the Boy Scouts of America.
Mr.Soto was the Sole Proprietor of IST Laboratory Inc. from 2000 - 2012. IST Labs Inc, was a materials testing laboratory which analyzed all materials in accordance with ASTM Standards.
IST Laboratory Inc also tested many plant based oils to be used for bio fuel products. Hemp was one of the plant base oils analyzed. These new fuels were certified for commercial use in many States by IST Labs Inc.
Richard Soto is the current owner of Geo Site Locators, a Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) firm specializing in Geo Physical Surveys for various Government and civilian agencies. His use of GPR began in 2002 while IST Laboratory Inc was still in service. IST Laboratory Inc was one of the first companies to utilize GPR and its benefits to subsurface investigations. Mr. Soto contributes pertinent data to GeoPhysical Survey System Inc to further the advancement of this technology. He continues to give lectures on GPR to Civil Engineering firms. He still maintains his State licenses as a QA/QC Inspector in many disciples.
Mr. Soto and family moved to Nevada City 12 years ago. He and his wife Adrienne, own a horse ranch just outside of town and raise their family there. After a brief illness, Mr. Soto turned to cannabis as an alternative to standard medical practices. Since then he and his wife have been active growers of cannabis in accordance with local laws and environmental organic growing methods. They have also been advocates of social change regarding its medical benefits and financial possibilities of cannabis. They organized rallies and attend local government meetings keeping abreast of the continual evolution of the cannabis issue in Nevada City and County.
Last year Mr. Soto teamed up with long time friend of 40 years, Joe Anderson, owner of Settlers Jerky Inc to combine their interests to create a line of cannabis infused jerky products. With the approval of the State agencies, Shady Creek Trading Company (SCTC) hopes to bring CBD and THC jerky products into its current market base established by parent company Settlers jerky Inc.
Adrienne Youngblood is a Brand and Marketing strategist who partners with CEOs, executives and
solopreneurs to grow their personal and professional brands. After spending 25 years working in PR,
Event Production, Design, Marketing and business consulting for her own firm Youngblood Studio,
based in Southern California, Adrienne’s experience and client list is extensive. She understands it’s
how well you connect with the heart-beating people you’re trying to help and communicate your
understanding back to them. In addition to her extensive PR and marketing experience, Adrienne is
also a trained life coach and an Equine Guided Therapist. She has also produced several documentaries.
After relocating to Northern California, Adrienne’s interests became focused in the alternative health
industry. She received certification as an Ayurvedic practitioner, and spent 2 years interning in the
herbal pharmacy, creating formulas for patients. Adrienne was called to use her knowledge when
curing her own cancer as wells as Lyme disease through alternative medicine, including the use of
cannabis in her treatments. Adrienne offers consultations with other patients on the use of cannabis in
their treatment regimens.
Adrienne lives with her husband Richard Soto and a tribe of family, horses, peacocks, dogs, cats and the
occasional mountain lion.
Adrienne holds a BS in communication from Walden University.
Administrative assistant to C-level executives at different corporations in Utah to build reports, oversee undermanagement, project management, building marketing materials, S.O.P.s, spearheaded projects and events, created systems as needed for corporate buyouts, client management, and record keeping. Having had an interest in interior design for years, Michelle went back to college while working in the design industry. She became Lead Interior Designer for a premier design + build company in exclusive high-end residential homes in Southern Utah while creating a proprietary system for project management between architects, contractors, designers, and clients. Not finding the quality home furnishings she wanted for her clients, Michelle concurrently managed and designed a soft goods workroom to design and create draperies, bedding, and pillows for custom homes.
After moving to Northern California, planning for a change of pace to grow microgreens she lived on a friends cannabis farm and helped create Alegria- a cultivator driven distribution company as COO. Because it was a start up and everyone else was living the 'cultivation lifestyle', Michelle did most of the work to build and maintain it. She designed sales and marketing materials, SOP binder, networking in Nevada County and San Francisco, designed table displays. coordinated with attorneys, CEO, Director of Sales, and tabled regular cannabis farmers markets in San Francisco. Personally toured over 30 Nevada County cannabis farms to make sure they were compliant with current regulations and that their growing standards were on par with organic standards as local regulations were being established. Concurrently managed a craft cannabis farm, Bloomfield Farms, in Nevada City.
Since regulations were slow in coming, Alegria shut down in the end of 2017 and Michelle began to consult newly established cannabis companies to help them become legal in the regulated market.
Shady Creek Trading Co. is entering the cannabis infused edible industry due to a consumer demand for quality infused jerky. The cannabis edible market share will rise 12% up to 14% by 2023.
According to Mordor Intelligence, The United States meat snacks market is now in the $2.8 billion category with expectation for annualized 4.2% growth through 2022. This coupled with the California cannabis market hit the $2.5 billion mark in 2018 with projected sales of $15 billion by 2023. This growth gives Shady Creek Trading Co. an appealing outlook on the growth of our company.
Shady Creek Trading Co. has a competitive advantage. According to BDS Analytics and ArcView group Market Trends, 50% of cannabis consumers rate convenience as the top deciding factor when buying cannabis products. Mordor Intelligence reports that the convenience of meat jerky as a healthy high-protein snack makes it an easy choice for consumers.
Branded products continue to see tremendous sales growth throughout the cannabis industry. The leading cannabis research and analytics company, BDS Analytics, touts branding as one of the Top 10 Trends in the cannabis market for the next five years.
Shady Creek Trading Co. are the innovators of the infused meat jerky market. There is minimal competition in California. Competitor A infuses a compressed meat stick created by using pieces of beef. Currently, it is against Federal regulatiuons to infuse THC with an FDA approved product. Unlike this competitor, Shady Creek complies by all FDA standards and uses cured strips of real buffalo, as opposed to pressed parts.
We are looking for $500,000 for build out and expansion of our brand. We will produce CBD and THC product lines concurrently.
Shady Creek Trading Co. will also offer white labeling services. Shady Creek Trading Co. has multiple letters of intent to white label pre rolls, proprietary tinctures, and topicals for other brands and the space and ability to fulfill them.
