Live & Grow Food Cooperative:

 

Each Live and Grow Community will consist of a number of year-round greenhouses, elongated and south-facing, each back-to-back with a row of 16 modern “Harvest Homes” facing North.  Each 100m (328 feet) long greenhouse will have 10,750 ft2 of year-round growing area.  Our goal is to generate revenue of $100 per ft2 of growing space annually from the greenhouses under a resident-owned cooperative structure, using a combination of advanced growing technologies, onsite food preparation, and branding.

 

With resident participation, our goal – which we believe will be achieved by year 2 – is to generate a net profit of $580,500 per greenhouse, or $30,816 per participating household. This would contribute over $2,500 monthly (“negative condo fees”) to household pre-tax income - plus abundant healthy food for the consumption of familires and friends.  In many cases, we believe this will enable residents to pay off the mortgage on their Harvest Home over time, and enable community participation by many who may have given up hope of owning a home in and around the GTA.

 

How will we achieve this lofty goal?

 

Growing Technologies:

·      Single Slope Passive Solar Greenhouses. We will use the latest version (double beam insulation) of the extremely successful design that now pervades the Chinese North, supplying year-round nutrition to millions of villagers. Temperature, humidity, pests and bio-security will be closely controlled, in order to produce the purest, most nutritious fruits and vegetables possible. Year-round growing will allow us to produce tropical and sub-tropical fruits, as well as many varieties of floral and arboreal plants continuously.

·      Living Soil. We will use “living” soil, in grow-bags containing a highly fungal-dominant mycorrhizal web capable of rapidly converting a broad range of essential and trace minerals into bio-available nutrients for the plants. To achieve this, we will use biochar, a mineral complex, and BEAM soil inoculant with a 5.4: 1 Fungal: Bacterial ratio, composted on-site using our waste organic material.

·      Crystalline water. Our irrigation water will harness the nutrient-carrying power of the Hexavita^TM system. This system was developed over a 10-year period, in Quebec, Canada, using highly effective water-reforming principles discovered and developed by Viktor Schauberger, the original hydrologist, 100 years ago.

This in-line system converts low surface area “clumped” water molecules into liquid crystalline form, infused with the frequencies of the most abundant minerals.  Each water crystal has a massive surface area capable of carrying many times the nutrients of “dead” municipal or well water, to the fruit of the plant, and ensure  nutrient dense produce.

·      Wood vinegar. We will use the protective power of trees, distilled into wood vinegar, or “pyroligneous acid”, in the biochar pyrolysis process, to repel insects, mold and other harmful greenhouse pests that plague conventional greenhouses. In this way we will avoid chemical additives completely. nutrient.

·      CO2 GRO . We will test the CO2 GRO method of increasing the supply of CO₂ to growing plants, combined with the HexavitaTM crystalline water as the water source for the aqueous solution that is then misted directly on to the plant’s leaves for enhanced photosynthesis.

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