Melbourne, 2020
It Started With a Backyard and a Frustrated Dad
It started one spring, with my little ones — aged one and a half and four — playing in our backyard in Australia. They'd come back inside after just 20 minutes, covered in red welts from mozzie bites. We hardly ever saw these mosquitoes, but their bites were causing allergic reactions and disrupting sleep.
As a parent, it was heartbreaking to see. I remember venting to my oldest friend Gary about how these mozzies were going to ruin our upcoming summer holidays. Gary, being a natural solutions kind of guy, advised against using harsh chemicals like DEET.
"That conversation planted a seed in my mind and his. Over the next 24 hours, we independently started going deep into thinking about this."



