ABOUT US
WHY WE BUILT HARVESTORY
We grew up on opposite ends of the same conversation. One of us was raised inside it. One of us married into it. It took both of us to notice what the industry had quietly taken out - and how to put it back.
Clare & Elliott
Founders, Harvestory. Northern California.
Clare’s Note
I grew up on my family's dairy farm. My grandfather ran it. My dad ran it. The dairies still standing within twenty miles of where I grew up are the same families he worked alongside.
Colostrum is the first milk a cow makes after a calf is born - those first days, before it thins into ordinary milk.
We collected it. I drank it straight from the cooler as a kid, the cream still floating on top. I didn't know, back then, that what I was drinking and what most people buy under that same word are barely the same thing.
Years later, after my second child, I went looking for it - that same colostrum, this time as a supplement I could take every morning. I wanted the thing I'd grown up on. I couldn't find it.
So I read the label on the jar I'd bought. Then I read five more. Every one was stripped of its fat. Blended across collection days. Underdosed against the research. And silent on where the colostrum actually came from.
The supplement category had taken the colostrum I grew up on and stripped most of it out.
That's where Harvestory started.
The same 3g, first-day, full-fat colostrum I drank from the cooler at seven. Sourced from the families my dad worked alongside. Verified by HPLC, batch by batch, so you never have to take my word for it.
If you've ever taken a colostrum supplement and quietly wondered whether it was doing anything, I built this for you.
Elliots’s Note
I came into Clare's family later, by marriage. What I noticed first was how much pressure the dairies around us were under.
Commodity-milk margins. Generational handoffs that weren't happening, because the next generation couldn't make the numbers work. Fifty-year-old farms closing in single-quarter announcements.
648,000 → 24,470
The number of US dairy farms in 1970 vs. 2022 (USDA).
The dairies that knew how to do first-day milking properly were the ones least able to compete on bulk volume - because the craft costs the exact things commodity supply punishes.
So when Clare wanted to build the colostrum she grew up on, I told her I couldn't see how we'd do it on the back of these farms without sending real money back to them. She agreed before I finished the sentence.
So we wrote it into the brand on day one: 10% of every dollar of net profit returns to the dairies we source from. Reported every six months. Audited every year. Not to a foundation. Not to a marketing fund. To the farms themselves.
The standard the category had normalised is why we built it this way. The farms are why we can.
Six things we refused to compromise on
Each one is on the label. Each one is verifiable. Each one changes what shows up in your morning.
Dose
A full 3,000mg per scoop. 3x most brands' standard 1g serving – above the consumer-grade floor, inside the credible mid-range.
IgG Concentration
The number's on the label. The COA's on file. Every batch is independently tested. Most brands don't publish their IgG concentration at all.
Timing
Sourced exclusively from the first-day milking – the densest 24-hour window of antibodies, lactoferrin, and growth factors. Most brands blend across the full 72-hour window.
Unstripped
We didn't strip the fat. The cream layer carries the fat-soluble bioactives. Most brands strip it for solubility – and strip the bioactives along with it. The texture is the proof.
Sourcing
100% US grass-fed, sourced from family-run Northern California dairies. The cows Clare grew up around.
The Commitment
Returns directly to the dairies we source from. Reported every six months. Audited annually. The operating model, not a marketing claim.
Same word on the label. Different thing in the jar.
- Dose per serving
- IgG % published
- First-day milking
- Fat layer
- Solubility
- Flavorings
- Sourcing
- Farms commitment
- Price per serving
- Independent testing
- Dose
- IgG
- Milking
- Fat
- Testing
- 3g
- 25.3% (HPLC verified)
- Yes, exclusively
- Kept in (unstripped)
- Fuller texture (bioactive density)
- None
- 100% US grass-fed
- 10% of net profit
- $1.99 ($59.99 / 30 servings)
- Third-party HPLC + GMP
- 3g - enough to actually work
- 750mg of antibodies, lab-verified
- First-day milk - densest bioactives
- Full-fat - growth factors retained
- HPLC tested - every batch
Most Brands
- 1g–2g
- Not published
- Blended across the 72-hour window
- Stripped out for solubility
- Optimised for cold-mix dissolve
- Often added
- Often unspecified or imported
- None
- Highly variable
- Rarely third-party published
- 1g - too little to register
- Unpublished - no way to verify
- Day 2 or 3 - already thinning
- Stripped - growth factors gone
- No third-party - take their word
Same word on the label. Different thing in the jar.
Dose per serving
IgG % published
Verification source
First-day milking
Fat layer
Solubility
Flavorings
Sourcing
Farms commitment
Independent testing
3g
25.3% (HPLC verified)
Third-party HPLC, COA on file
Yes, exclusively
Kept in (unstripped)
Fuller texture (carrier preserved)
None
100% US grass-fed
10% of net profit
Third-party HPLC + GMP
Most Brands
1g–2g
Not published
None published
Blended across the 72-hour window
Stripped for cold-mix dissolvability
Optimised for cold-mix dissolve
Often added
Often unspecified or imported
None
Rarely third-party published
Rated 4.8 / 5.0 • ‘Excellent’
10% of every dollar of net profit returns to the family dairies
Reported every six months. Audited every year.
Try Harvestory for 60 days.
If it isn't doing what you hoped, send the jar back – even if it's empty – and we'll refund every dollar. We'll honour it. We won't make you fight for it. We won't ask you why.
With us, Instead of risking that $59.99…
You're testing whether what we kept in actually does what we said it does.
There's only one way to find out.
Clare Beckstrom & Elliott Beckstrom, Founders
Third Party Tested
GMP Certified
Every batch. US-manufactured facility. Independent HPLC.