Local Grown Salads

12/30/2024

Systemic Racism is where the "System" is essentially racist.
And its not because it was designed to be racist, and its not because anyone running it it is racist.

It just does things that are racist.

The SAT/ACT system is one such system.

It essentially keeps people from lower incomes out of the better universities.
A better university gets a better degree, it gets you a better job, and it creates genrational wealth. Generational wealth takes families and communities out of poverty. It changes the game.

If you are poor, the chances of getting a high SAT/ACT score goes down.

Things are changing!
And we can thank Covid for it.

If you care about these things, this podcast is for you.

12/30/2024

Local Grown Salads' contribution to UN Sustainable Goal 1 Targets
End in all its forms everywhere

1.4 Ensure that all men and women have ownership and control new technology
- Local Grown Salads is committed to an ESOP program for our employees giving them ownership and participation
- Indoor Vertical Farming is a new sustainable technology that is creating new forms of employment will create other new forms of economic development

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12/27/2024

Don't you love when someone else does all the work?
Here is a great list of articles and books on early stage investing.
In theory its all about how a VC invests.

Angel investors are similar and different to mini VCs.

VCs invest larger amounts in a round than the Angel investor.
The Angel investor invests earlier and has a bigger upside.
The Angel investor is investing someone else's money, an Angel is investing their own money.
The VC usually has little operating experience, the Angel has much more practical experience.
The VC expects needs to worry what other VCs think about, an Angel investor worries about their spouse.

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I heard that Vinod Khosla once said that “it takes seven years and $30m to make a venture capitalist.” As a new analyst or associate at a VC firm, VC can be hard to grasp and it typically takes 6-18 months to calibrate to the realities and constraints of the venture capital model.

12/27/2024

More than a billion people across the globe are obese or overweight.
Surprisingly it is not simply a concern for developed countries.
A recent global analysis comparing agricultural production to suggested dietary intake, suggests that conventional agriculture currently overproduces grains, fats and sugar, while underproducing fruit, vegetables and sources of protein.

The report highlights the potential for urban agriculture to stop the impending disaster of a health crisis.
Indoor Vertical Farms and urban green growing spaces in the city focus on growing vegetables, fruits and herbs instead of grains, sugars and fats.

Local Grown Salads specializes in growing and packaging herbs, small vegetables and leafy green salads to ensure that the community's dietary requirements are fulfilled and remains healthy!
We are excited about our contribution to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal ( ) 3 targets good health and well-being.

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12/26/2024

How does irrigation work?
Irrigation systems are a necessary component of indoor farming because they keep plants hydrated
Irrigation systems use specialized methods of supplying water to plants.
It is highly efficient and reduces water waste by minimizing evaporation and reducing runoff.

Irrigation in Indoor Vertical Farming is localized with water distributed to each plant within the system.

There are four ways in which water is distributed set up; hydroponics, aeroponics, aquaponics, and fertigation.

Typically irrigation is delivered on the surface under low pressure (such as with drip irrigation) and the water is absorbed by the substrate which reaches the roots of the plants, allowing a timely distribution of water/
The Local Grown Salads irrigation system delivers water to the soil substrate where the plant roots can access it.

The first three methods involve soil-less growth.
Hydroponics involves growing plants in a nutrient-rich solution.
Aeroponics involves growing plants in an airless environment.
Aquaponics is a method of plant growth that combines hydroponics and aquaculture.
Fertigation is a soil based watering system that uses high levels of Dissolved Oxygen, nutrition, and water.

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How can we use indoor farming to supplement outdoor growing?

12/26/2024

What Color is Your ?
I love a Salad full of color.

The easiest way to add color is the use of orange and red peppers. They are great, they can be used as strips or chopped into pieces, I prefer pieces because its easier and less sloppy to eat.

Another way to add color is to use pieces of fruit in your salad.
Yup, people will freak out, but once you do it, you will never go back.

Take an orange, a pear, an apple and and even a banana and cut them into small pieces.
If you not going to eat the salad right away, add some lemon juice into the mix to keep the fruit from turning brown.

Another easy source for color is a carrot. I use a scraper to add the carrot, again, just to make it easy to eat.

And don't forget adding pickles, and olives and other fun stuff.

What do you add to your salad to give it color?

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Fruits and vegetables' vibrant colors tell the story of their "super powers." You see, it's their "phytonutrients," or plant nutrients, that help us fight disease and stay stronger for longer. Learn what the phytonutrients do -- and how much of each you need to be healthy -- in the infographic below...

12/26/2024

This series is about eating healthy, but why should you care about eating healthy?
It's simple:
- Healthy eating provides your body with energy to accomplish stuff.
- It provides you with nutrients to grow, develop, and repair.
- It helps your body to fight pathogens.

Healthy food comes from which contains healthy chemicals we call "vitamins" that we all need..
- Vitamin A which keeps the eyes and skin healthy,
- Vitamin C helps heal cuts and keep teeth healthy.

But, the there is a challenge, field crops us chemicals we don't need called "insecticides", "herbicides", and "fungicides".
Although these chemicals target specific needs, there is a possibility for human exposure.
And that is very unhealthy.

Another chemical used are nutrients, these are used by the plants to grow.

So basically, there are three types of chemicals in agriculture.
Healthy chemicals - vitamins
Nasty chemicals - Pesticides, herbicides, and insecticides.
Useful chemicals - the nutrients

Indoor Vertical Growing doesn't use any bad chemicals in the growing process.

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12/25/2024

Small bugs and insects that feed, breed and live on produce.
These insects quickly rot, damage and add bacteria to fruit, vegetables and field grown produce.
The insects rapidly reproduce is openly exposed in fields, gardens and farms.
Bacteria forms on the food and then breaks it down quickly.
Produce growers (conventional and ) spray their produce with chemicals, and other critter killers.
Sometimes these pesticides make it into the food and sometimes they remain on the service.
In both cases, they allow for the consumption of chemicals when eaten.

With Indoor Vertical Farming, there is no chemicals used and almost a 0% chance of bugs and critters reaching the produce.
This produce is grown fully indoors, and grown upwards.
Indoor Vertical Farming is actually a more sustainable and safer way to grow food.
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This article is a great read on the pesticides and critters that occur when growing produce in fields. It only puts a brighter light on the advantages of indoor vertical farming.

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Pesticides pollute rivers and soil, but can farms work without chemical sprays?

12/25/2024

Local Grown Salads' contribution to the United Nations Sustainable Development ( ) Goal 15 life on land in a very practical way. Our Indoor Vertical Farms diminish the pressure and need to further extend field production.

Stopping farmland growth helps biodiversity by leaving it untouched from agricultural processes.
Indoor Vertical Farming allows large tracts of land to revert to the natural landscape, restoring ecosystem functions and services.

Harmful pesticides, fertilizers, and weedicides often leach deep into the soils, harming the soil biodiversity.
This then hurts animals like moles, mice, bacteria, fungi and even the roots of plants outside the farming area.
The toxicity often reduce the numbers of natural predators which can result in an increased population of pests.
Moreover, it can even have far-reaching effects on soil microbial activity, reducing the suitability of the soil to grow crops.

Research states that insects are the ones most affected/
Globally, almost 50% of insect populations have dropped owing to the use of agrochemicals.
While I don't like misquotes and other insects, birds and frogs and other lifeforms live on them.

It is time to sustain life on land and allow it to flourish.

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12/25/2024

Washington Black is a fictional story of a slave who becomes free. Without spoiling, I can share its all about the 1840s where there was slavery in America but elsewhere slavery had ended. He has many adventures and through the adventures he learns about himself and about other people.

While it's not a book about slavery, it is a book about slavery.

Mostly It's about a young man growing up and gaining confidence.

I really enjoyed it and highly recommend it.

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12/24/2024

There are so many opportunities to invest in .

You can invest in public companies and you can invest in private and everything in between.

This article is a deep introduction into the breadth and depth of food .

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12/24/2024

An exciting niche in is making claims.
They can be , , and UN (Sustainable Development Goals).

By scoring the claims, Giant Food, (a division of Ahold Delhaize) is leveraging consumer demand for products with a positive environmental and social impact. Making the choice rational, not based on marketing claims.

Some of the potential:
1) Other retailers will follow.
2) Competition between rating organizations will create all sorts of new demands and expectations.
3) Retailers will combine (niche + high ratings + price).
Niches will include ( , , , etc.)
4) People will search and sort by the ratings.

All this activity will impact (pun intended) smaller brands with a sustainable business model and help them overcome their largest hurdle; getting shelf space with consumer visibility.
Sales will further increase as consumers will look for reviews and check in their favorite Facebook groups for others opinions.

Sustainability + Online Food shopping going to create opportunities no one projected.

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12/24/2024

Sometimes Reid Hoffman kills it.

This time what it takes to get beyond what you think you can do.

12/23/2024

Local Grown Salads' contribution to UN Sustainable Goal 12 Targets
Consumption and production
12.6 Adopt Sustainable Practices
- Our technology is sustainable on all measures

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12/23/2024

Who doesn't love French Fries, Potato Chips, Baked Potatoes, and Mashed Potatoes?
These are my favorites.
But that is just the start, they can be cooked with herbs and spices and they become a different food.

With a gravy or when cooked other foods (onions!!!) they become an entirely different dish.
The potato comes in so many sizes, colors and flavors. Which adds to their contribution to the palette.

And it's a great food if we get left behind on Mars.

Share a favorite Potato recipe in the comments.

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The humble potato has dropped in popularity recently as people switch to low-carb diets. But potatoes are a rich source of vitamins, minerals, and fiber, and very tasty to many people. Find out 10 reasons why they might be good for your health, plus how to cook them, and a breakdown of what is insid...

12/20/2024

Another amazing Podcast, but with a message for our generation.

This is a story of Rubella and the 1940's and the effect on Gene Tuirney (the actress).
But it has messages for us today.

It's the difference between being Heartless an Thoughtless.

Most of us are thoughtless, not heartless.

The Fan Who Infected a Movie Star

12/20/2024

Discriminating and look for inefficiencies in an an industry.
When an inefficiencies is identified, an opportunity exists.

There is a massive opportunity in the Chain and its right in front of us.
Its the food supply chain is its self.
Its extremely inefficient.
Fresh vegetables goes through many different hands from farm to consumer.
This is because fresh vegetables travels 1,500 miles or more.

The big opportunity is to move the farm closer o the consumer.
The solution is to move California's weather and seasons to Pennsylvania.

You think I am joking?
I am not.
Indoor Vertical Farming creates California's perfect growing environment inside.
We create the sun with LED lights.
We create the temperature with Air Conditioning.
We create the soil with substrates.

We do it all.

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12/19/2024

or seems to be all about distraction. And when I was a parent of a young children, it was a the rage.
(Yeah, I know, it's still popular excuse for kids that don't toe the line.)

Anyhow, I wanted to share a podcast that never mentions ADD or ADHD but describes a person, who if we heard his story, we would definitely declare him that way.

But, he is is the genius behind a lot of ideas the internet work and {{ oops, can't tell you, it would be spolier}}.

But let's just say Steve Jobs wasn't in this guy's league.