OUR CAUSE

Children with Hydrocephalus are the toughest people we have found so far, and we have made it our mission to use our company as a vehicle to improve their lives.

In early 2015, I learned that my daughter Lucy (born Feb 2015) has Hydrocephalus (along with craniosynostosis), a condition in which fluid builds in the brain, and is only treated with brain surgery. In just the first year and a half of her life, she had undergone 3 brain surgeries and 7 hospital stays with more likely in her future.

Lucy is tough. Every child I’ve met with this condition is tough.

Unfortunately, there is little funding for research in this area. People with Hydrocephalus are fitted with a shunt, which is a pump-like device in their brain. Nearly 100% of shunts fail within 10 years, which means additional brain surgery to revise the shunt when it fails. Many sufferers have had 20 or more brain surgeries.

I am selfish. I want to raise as much money as possible so one day my daughter may have a better option. Using Locust Cider, we can make a difference. $0.25 of every case of cans or bottles sold is donated to the Hydrocephalus Association (over $10,000 per year since 2016) in support of our cause hydrocephalus, an incurable brain condition our owners' daughter and millions live with. 

- Jason Spears, Founder