MCSB 2024 SBDC Best Small Business Awardee, FarmSudz
In a lead-up to the 2024 Michigan Celebrates Small Business Gala Celebration, Jeffrey Mosher spoke with several winning companies from this cycle. This year’s gala will take place at the Breslin Center in East Lansing, MI, on May 21st! Please visit michigancelebrates.org/
Here, Jeffrey Mosher speaks with Julie Konkle and Erin Valkuchak, Founding Partners of FarmSudz LLC, Chelsea, MI, a 2024 SBDC - Best Small Business Awardee winner for this year's cycle of Michigan Celebrates Small Business. In its twentieth year and holding Gala Celebration May 21st in East Lansing, MI, at the Breslin Center.
To listen to their full interview please click on the embedded SoundCloud PodCast shared below!
About FarmSudz:
Inspired by nature, our skincare products are formulated, perfected and whipped up on site by our very own “mad scientists,” using the finest ingredients we can find. It’s all about clean products that work great, and that is how we’ve come to stand out as freakishly awesome homegrown pioneers in the field of natural skin care.
Determination. Patience. Perseverance. After about 50 batches of trial and error (and some not so pretty soap)...we finally got it right!
In the Beginning.....
Julie worked as an RN with a research team pioneering innovative new treatments for serious medical conditions. Though some new discoveries offered hope, Julie felt that modern medicine was overlooking the potential effectiveness of a more natural, alternative route to good health. It became her mission to explore the benefits of nature and to discover ways to soothe the mind, body, and soul using natural ingredients. Through her dogged research, a bunch of trial and error and a keen sense of humor, FarmSudz was born! It all started with goat milk soap and continued on to include a natural skincare line that has become a local sensation. Now boasting 2 storefronts and a team of rock-star, science-minded, really nice, and fun people – FarmSudz is a happy accident that became a fabulous thang.
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About Michigan Celebrates Small Business (MCSB) - Since 2004 remains on the forefront of championing small business and fostering the entrepreneurial spirit in Michigan. The MCSB’s role is to serve as a catalyst for creating an entrepreneurial culture while inspiring the next generation of entrepreneurs. The mission of MCSB is to honor and recognize Michigan’s small business people and those champions and advocates that support them. MCSB brings together the resources of collaborative partners and supporters so that they may raise the profile of small businesses in Michigan, build a network of entrepreneurial companies, and tell the stories of successful, growing Michigan entrepreneurs.
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