A pro active response to a global crisis
A pro active solution
America and the world are facing the convergence of several events that will profoundly effect the quality, even the very existence of life. They are global warming, fresh water scarcity, loss of arable land and resultant food security.
Our key managers began this process while working in MicroFinance in Asia and Africa. We saw the dwindling resources and the beginnings of the crisis we described above. We are committed to providing scalable solutions to solve these problems and to profoundly change, through market forces, the way we manage these critical valued components of human life. Food and Water.
The greatest heresy is to take, A Truth: and make it"The Truth," we realize that there will need to be many solutions like ours and we will support them, but ours is a fundamental baseline approach to survival and to begin to lay the foundations of social and economic justice.
Then There is The Future of Humanity
The Catholic Pope POPE LEO XIII who said,that there can be no social justice without economic justice. We have seen the devastation of poverty. Our model of community economic development tied to small local businesses (urban micro farms) will provide a model for future community development projects. Sustainable small growing businesses form the basis for an economy of worker owners who will support their families and their communities. This is the future we plan to create in the inner cities of America where hope is the first casualty of poverty.
How We Are Creating It
The Family Fish Farms Network, Inc (FFFN) is a triple bottom line business Please Note: We are a well planned Start Up. We do not have a growing facility in production as of yet.
The Family Fish Farms Network is a triple Bottom Line Company
1)Economically Viable, 2) Environmentally Sound, 3)Socially Responsible.
Economically Viable: First we create a growing profitable business. We employ a natural process the takes the filtered effluent of fish and uses it to fertilize vegetables. Local fresh food is a growing need and demand is high. We have patentable technology that allows us to assure the right growing environment for both the fish and the vegetables is consistent high quality.
See our website with a video and links to our Facebook page and blog
www.thefamilyfishfarmsnentwork.com
We are a disruptive food technology in that we will change the way food is grown and distributed. We do not plan to scale up but to scale out. FFFN removes the distributor from the food value chain thus saving us and he consumer money. We plan a distributive network with many small production urban farms all with local distribution and retail sales. We are cost competitive with imports but they can never be quality competitive with us. Our fish is fresh and never frozen without antibiotics, growth hormones and we do not use animal protein in our feed. Our motto is
Locally Grown Fresh Food: 2 Hours from Harvest to Table
We have substantial interest from the largest sustainable food service company in America with 400 US locations. Our problem will be managing growth to meet demand.
Environmentally Sound: We totally eliminate a major ground water, stream, river, and bay pollution source: Fertilizer Run Off. FFFN uses NO COMMERCIAL NITRATE FERTILIZER we have no need to as our fish produce all the nitrates we require. Also, we filter, bio digest, and recirculate all water. Aquaponics consumes only a single digit percent of the water. We save Billions of gallons of fresh clean water. Traditional farming consumes 60% of all the worlds water. The average head of lettuce travels 1,500 miles from farm to table. We save all of the carbon cost of transport and eliminate the harmful greenhouse gasses.
Socially Responsible: FFFN will locate facilities within the inner cities of America. We will provide nutritious fresh food where only food deserts exist. Our Urban Farms will become beacons of economic revival and renewed faith in America. The FFFN plans to hire and train all workers from within the communities in which we operate. Our goal is to have each of our Urban Aquaponic Micro Farms owned by the Employees using a business model called The ESOP (employee stock ownership Plan) We will turn over operations management to our trained worker/owner/partners . FFFN will own the Brand, Handle the Marketing, and set quality production standards. We will also fund the acquisition and the construction and training of the workforce.
We project a national workforce of approximately 10,000 in five years.
Our Story & Why You Should Support Us
I was part of the dream of social equality and egalitarianism the grew in the 1960's I was a rock musician and a founding member of the now legendary rock band, The jefferson Airplane. I played as a professional musician for seven years before going back to school.
I have in-depth experience in the core skills needed to make this happen and a reality. I'm an organizational psychologist I spent several years as head of technical training for Honda America Manufacturing where I had responsibility for 12,000 employees in four plants. I served as head of Performance Counseling for Sylvan learning Systems, I was a senior consultant to US AID's Global Health Bureau and Technical Adviser to The Grameen Foundation in the MicroFinance Field. I've worked in Africa and Asia.
I understand the problems we face. i have run a business and know how to build an organization. I have a dedicated and competent technical team with world class farm managers and growers.
We have a complete well researched Business Plan along with detailed financial pro forma. We also have a Linkedin Group called Commercial Aquaponics with 290 members worldwide the link to the group is:
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4121735&trk=hb_side_g
When we are successful we will have changed the lives and expectations for prosperity for thousands of families here in America and elsewhere, Africa and Asia in particular.
A pro active solution
America and the world are facing the convergence of several events that will profoundly effect the quality, even the very existence of life. They are global warming, fresh water scarcity, loss of arable land and resultant food security.
Our key managers began this process while working in MicroFinance in Asia and Africa. We saw the dwindling resources and the beginnings of the crisis we described above. We are committed to providing scalable solutions to solve these problems and to profoundly change, through market forces, the way we manage these critical valued components of human life. Food and Water.
The greatest heresy is to take, A Truth: and make it"The Truth," we realize that there will need to be many solutions like ours and we will support them, but ours is a fundamental baseline approach to survival and to begin to lay the foundations of social and economic justice.
Then There is The Future of Humanity
The Catholic Pope POPE LEO XIII who said,that there can be no social justice without economic justice. We have seen the devastation of poverty. Our model of community economic development tied to small local businesses (urban micro farms) will provide a model for future community development projects. Sustainable small growing businesses form the basis for an economy of worker owners who will support their families and their communities. This is the future we plan to create in the inner cities of America where hope is the first casualty of poverty.
How We Are Creating It
The Family Fish Farms Network, Inc (FFFN) is a triple bottom line business Please Note: We are a well planned Start Up. We do not have a growing facility in production as of yet.
The Family Fish Farms Network is a triple Bottom Line Company
1)Economically Viable, 2) Environmentally Sound, 3)Socially Responsible.
Economically Viable: First we create a growing profitable business. We employ a natural process the takes the filtered effluent of fish and uses it to fertilize vegetables. Local fresh food is a growing need and demand is high. We have patentable technology that allows us to assure the right growing environment for both the fish and the vegetables is consistent high quality.
See our website with a video and links to our Facebook page and blog
www.thefamilyfishfarmsnentwork.com
We are a disruptive food technology in that we will change the way food is grown and distributed. We do not plan to scale up but to scale out. FFFN removes the distributor from the food value chain thus saving us and he consumer money. We plan a distributive network with many small production urban farms all with local distribution and retail sales. We are cost competitive with imports but they can never be quality competitive with us. Our fish is fresh and never frozen without antibiotics, growth hormones and we do not use animal protein in our feed. Our motto is
Locally Grown Fresh Food: 2 Hours from Harvest to Table
We have substantial interest from the largest sustainable food service company in America with 400 US locations. Our problem will be managing growth to meet demand.
Environmentally Sound: We totally eliminate a major ground water, stream, river, and bay pollution source: Fertilizer Run Off. FFFN uses NO COMMERCIAL NITRATE FERTILIZER we have no need to as our fish produce all the nitrates we require. Also, we filter, bio digest, and recirculate all water. Aquaponics consumes only a single digit percent of the water. We save Billions of gallons of fresh clean water. Traditional farming consumes 60% of all the worlds water. The average head of lettuce travels 1,500 miles from farm to table. We save all of the carbon cost of transport and eliminate the harmful greenhouse gasses.
Socially Responsible: FFFN will locate facilities within the inner cities of America. We will provide nutritious fresh food where only food deserts exist. Our Urban Farms will become beacons of economic revival and renewed faith in America. The FFFN plans to hire and train all workers from within the communities in which we operate. Our goal is to have each of our Urban Aquaponic Micro Farms owned by the Employees using a business model called The ESOP (employee stock ownership Plan) We will turn over operations management to our trained worker/owner/partners . FFFN will own the Brand, Handle the Marketing, and set quality production standards. We will also fund the acquisition and the construction and training of the workforce.
We project a national workforce of approximately 10,000 in five years.
Our Story & Why You Should Support Us
I was part of the dream of social equality and egalitarianism the grew in the 1960's I was a rock musician and a founding member of the now legendary rock band, The jefferson Airplane. I played as a professional musician for seven years before going back to school.
I have in-depth experience in the core skills needed to make this happen and a reality. I'm an organizational psychologist I spent several years as head of technical training for Honda America Manufacturing where I had responsibility for 12,000 employees in four plants. I served as head of Performance Counseling for Sylvan learning Systems, I was a senior consultant to US AID's Global Health Bureau and Technical Adviser to The Grameen Foundation in the MicroFinance Field. I've worked in Africa and Asia.
I understand the problems we face. i have run a business and know how to build an organization. I have a dedicated and competent technical team with world class farm managers and growers.
We have a complete well researched Business Plan along with detailed financial pro forma. We also have a Linkedin Group called Commercial Aquaponics with 290 members worldwide the link to the group is:
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4121735&trk=hb_side_g
When we are successful we will have changed the lives and expectations for prosperity for thousands of families here in America and elsewhere, Africa and Asia in particular.
