The ultimate online course for all aspiring plant-based business owners
Do you dream of setting up your own impactful business?
Plant Three is here to bring your vision to life!
From the start, Plant Three Online focuses on learning by doing at your own pace.
During the first part of the course, you will work on various challenges and in the second part you will put your learnings into practice by creating your own business concept.
How will you accomplish that? Our guest experts, entrepreneurs, and brands will help you start + grow your business, from idea to design and finance.
BUSINESS SKILLS TAUGHT BY EXPERTS
DIGITAL LECTURES AND PRACTICAL SUPPORT
A COMMUNITY OF PLANT-BASED LEADERS
The Plant Three Curriculum
Module One: Origin
Taught by: Eoghan Proudfoot
Reconnect with the land and consider why we eat and grow what we do. Eoghan, founder of Proudfoot & Co. - the drinks lounge for the bold and the curious - will be sharing his insights in reimagining the food system in this module. The Proudfoot & Co. team forages every day to stock their pantry, keeps their own bees, taps local trees for syrup, and ferments in-house.
Module takeaways:
How to build a conscious business from the ground up
Module Two: Persona
Taught by: Tom Hunt
Tom is an award-winning chef, author of ‘Eating for Pleasure, People & Planet’ and food writer. In this module, Tom shares the story of his own food journey to inspire you as you embark on your own path and explain the importance of your purpose - especially in the early days of getting your plant-based business going. As well as cooking one of Tom’s tasty recipes you will also be set a cookbook challenge by tom to create your own activist cookbook concept.
Module takeaways:
Working with purpose, the power of food activism and understanding your why
Module Three: Action
Taught by: Pachel Pamart, Josh Puddle, Mirko Parmigiani & David Bez,
This module guided you through the steps of product design and how to turn ideas into something ‘physical’. You’ll be taught by Rachel, founder of RAWLALA Josh (MOMO Kombucha), Mirko - (Palace Culture) and David (@saladpride). Sharing their insights on product packaging, design and manufacture - teaching key insights on how to bring your product to life.
Module takeaways:
How to create physical products that stand out from the crowd & make an impact on the food system
Module Four: Community
Taught by: Veryan Wilkie-Jones
Made in Hackney is a charity initiative all about the power of community. In this module you will learn about the community cookery school; Made in Hackney and why they do what they do and be set the challenge of teaching your own cookery class.
Module takeaways:
How to share an idea that serves your community
Module Five: Beauty
Taught by: Sara Kiyo Popowa & Josh Bolding
This module reminds you of the importance of attention to detail and creative visual communication. The module is taught by Sara Kiyo Popowa and Josh Bolding (Vivo Life). Sara will remind you of the power of the visual and the art of images through a practical class. Josh will guide you in a creative brief from our sponsor; Vivo Life.
Module takeaways:
How to work with brands and the power of the visual
Module Six: Passion
Taught by: Amelia Christie-Miller
You’ll learn all about marketing and mission in this module, led by Amelia; founder of Bold Bean Co. She will be inspiring you to think creatively about ingredients, as she started Bold Bean with one core purpose: to make people obsessed with beans! During this session, you’ll consider brands that have changed the shape of the food industry and how your brand could do the same.
Module takeaways:
How define your brand mission
Module Seven: Future
Taught by: Ayelen Martinez & Tom Baxter
You’ll be learning from mushroom experts in this module: Ayelen Martinez, founder of Oh My Shrooms & Tom Baxter, founder of Bristol Fungarium. During their classes, you’ll discover how each of their businesses got started and understand how you can ensure that the core focus of your own business is building to renew, restore, or repair - rather than to take away.
Module takeaways:
An understanding of current and future food trends
Module Eight: Opportunity
Taught by: Lauren O’Donnell & Rishim Sachdeva
This module is all about finance and the different ways to raise investment. You’ll be taught by Lauren, founder of Oatsu, and Rishim, founder of Tendril. They will share their guidance for fundraising, as well as the learnings from their investment journeys.
Module takeaways:
How to finance your business
Module Nine: Sharing
Taught by: Carolina Chinea
In this practical module, you will complete a live brief and prepare presentations around your business concept. This is where you will prepare your presentation for submission in module ten. Your goal is to be inspired by the teachers you have already learned from and to start to realise your own business vision. You’ll be supported in this module by plant-based business coach Carolina.
Module takeaways:
How to cultivate your idea and use your creativity to share your vision
Module Ten: Masticating
Taught by: Nicole Marguerite Gray
This marketing module will be led by Nicole, co-founder of Align Your Brand. She will teach you how to show up confidently on social media as an expert.
You’ll also the through a creative challenge in this module to encourage you to implement your module learnings for yourself.
Module takeaways:
Learning how to showcase your business on social media
Module Eleven: Incubating
Taught by: Monique Foy & Zoë Lind van't Hof
This module will cover all things branding. You’ll be taught by Monique, founder of Cosmic Dealer, and Zoë, co-founder of Wunder Workshop.
You’ll also work through a creative challenge in this module to encourage you to implement the module learnings for yourself.
Module takeaways:
Developing ideas for unique branding and how to use brand archetypes
Module Twelve: Eureka
Taught by: Steffy & Will Ashurst-White
In this session, you’ll learn about all things plant-based events with Steffy and Will - the founders of White Light Yoga Retreats, a transformational, high-vibe retreat brand.
You’ll also work through a creative challenge in this module to encourage you to implement the module learnings for yourself.
Module takeaways:
Discovering how to plan your own events
Module Thirteen: Shaping
Taught by: Charlotte Gómez de Orozco, Safia Shakarchi, Caterina Oliveira
In this module, you’ll learn from a host of successful female founders in a panel-style discussion, Charlotte (founder of HOY) & Safia (founder of Another Pantry) and Co-founder of Herbar Caterina.
Module takeaways:
The new age of women in business
Module Fourteen: Plant Three Project Submission
For this final module, you'll be presenting your completed business concept and will be in a position to take the next steps in developing your business.
Outcomes include:
A completed business model and plan ready to put into action, creative resources, and your Plant Three Certification 🏆
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Who is Plant Three for?
This course is the one that every single food entrepreneur wishes they had taken.
Plant Three is for you if you dream of having your own business idea if you have an idea you have yet to bring to life if you are ready to develop an existing business, or even go in a new direction.
Whichever stage you're at, you'll leave this course ready to evolve into the next level of your business, with the confidence, community and knowledge to get you there.
We have worked with hundreds of chefs and entrepreneurs over the four+ years, and the question we are asked most is: ‘How do I go from where I am now to working in food?’ Plant Three works to provide the answer to that question - and so much more!
Plant Three Guest Teachers
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![David Bez Salad Pride]()
David Bez
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![Steffi White Yoga]()
Steffy Ashurst-White
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![Josh Puddle MOMO Kombucha]()
Josh Puddle
CO-FOUNDER OF MOMO KOMBUCHA
👀 Press: The Telegraph, The Grocer, Daily Mail, Forbes
🌱 Courses: Plant Three
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![Zoë Lind van't Hof Wunder Workshop]()
Zoë Lind van't Hof
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![Rishim Sachdeva]()
Rishim Sachdeva
HEAD CHEF & FOUNDER OF TENDRIL
👀 Press: National Geographic, Great British Chefs
🌱 Courses: Plant Three
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![Douglas McMaster Silo Chef]()
Douglas McMaster
OWNER OF ZERO-WASTE RESTAURANT SILO
👀 Press: LA Times, Evening Standard
🌱 Courses: Plant Two, Plant Three
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![Eoghan Proudfoot]()
Eoghan Proudfoot
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![Carolina Chinea]()
Carolina Chinea
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![Ayelen Martinez Oh My Shrooms]()
Ayelen Martinez
FOUNDER OF OH MY SHROOMS
👀 Press: Financial Times, The Times
🌱 Courses: Plant One, Plant Two, Plant Three
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![Sara Kiyo Popowa shisodelicious]()
Sara Kiyo Popowa
PHOTOGRAPHER, AUTHOR & CHEF
👀 Press: The Times, The Guardian
🌱 Courses: Plant One, Plant Two, Plant Three
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![Amelia Christie-Miller Bold Bean Co]()
Amelia Christie-Miller
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![Rachel Pamart RAWLALA]()
Rachel Pamart
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![Mirko Parmigiani Palace Culture]()
Mirko Parmigiani
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![Nicole Marguerite Gray]()
Nicole Marguerite Gray
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![Sarah Bentley Made In Hackney]()
Sarah Bentley
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![Tom Baxter Bristol Fungarium]()
Tom Baxter
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![Monique Foy Cosmic Dealer]()
Monique Foy
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![Lauren O'Donnell Oatsu]()
Lauren O'Donnell
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![Josh Bolding Vivo Life]()
Josh Bolding
CO-FOUNDER OF VIVO LIFE
👀 Press: The Vegan Kind, Plant-Based Mag
🌱 Courses: Plant Three
Proudly sponsored by Vivo Life
Life is full of choices. And pretty much every choice we make has an impact on the planet we live on and the people we share it with. So when we created Vivo Life, we chose to take our own path. We explored innovative new ways to feed your body the nutrients often missing from modern diets, from uniquely formulated plant-based ingredients, that are better for you, better for your health and better for the planet.
This wasn’t the easy path, but at every crossroad then and now we’ve chosen the better way to do things - putting the well-being of people and the planet at the heart of everything we do.
It means we can look you in the eye (and ourselves in the mirror) when we say... at Vivo Life, We Do Life Differently.
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Each of our courses complements the others. but also work just as well independently. If you are a confident cook and already working in the industry, Plant Three will be suitable for you.
Note: if you are extremely new to the food industry please talk to us before booking - we’ll help guide you as to whether this is the right fit for you.
If you have taken our Plant One or Plant Two courses, you will get 10% off this course using your alumni discount.
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Everyone will finish the course with a concrete business idea, developed through a clear understanding of passion, purpose and why.
You will have mapped out the next steps in your business, made new connections, and uncovered ongoing Plant Academy support and newfound inspiration.
You will have a prototype of the product or service you are about to create.
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Each module takes roughly 2-3 days to complete. You can either work through these on a ‘part-time’ basis - doing one module a month or if you are looking for a more ‘full-time’ experience, then the course can be completed within 3-4 months by taking one module a week.
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Whether it's a pop-up dining brand, physical product, physical space or something more conceptual - This course will walk you through the ins and outs of starting up your own business.
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You have one year to complete the course from the day that you enrol.
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From the 20th of March you can dive into the content which consists of videos and workbook. Work through each module and book one to one calls with Lauren or Carolina at any point.
From March to may we will have live lectures on the last Wednesday of each month with our team and special guests.
At the end of the course you can book a time to present your business concept to our team or record it ready to share.
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