Our Story
Milk is the stuff of life.
It's literally the first thing we put in our bodies. After we stop getting it from our moms or a bottle we look to other mammals - cows, goats. But it turns out that's not so great for a lot of us, and dairy farming is pretty tough on the planet, so we start milking nuts and and beans and grains. We just seem to want milk. In our cereal, in our smoothies. We cook and bake with it. It's coffee's soulmate. It's just...comfort.
But while it's filling our coffee cups and cereal bowls, plant-based milk is usually nutritionally imbalanced,
void of key nutrients like protein, and loaded with inflammatory seed oils. Though they tend to be better for the environment than conventional dairy, plant milks still contribute to climate change on a massive scale. Liquid is heavy, and shipping it means high carbon emissions. And then there are all those hard-to-recycle, plasticized, multilayered cartons. Over 140 billion of those suckers end up in landfills every year, let alone the plastic waste that eventually finds its way into our oceans.
As two moms who think a lot about the state of the planet they're leaving their kids and the quality of foods they feed them, Maker founders Danika and Clarissa knew they could make a better oat milk, so they did.
With a shared background as founders of non-profits in Los Angeles and their native New Zealand providing education, healthy food, and other resources to families and children in need, and Danika's training in functional health, they got to work in their kitchens formulating a more nutritious, sustainable oat milk and Maker was born.
They created Maker because they believe it's the small choices we make every day that have the greatest impact on our health and the health of the planet.
