Local Grown Salads

04/24/2025

is is really a very cool science project.
Why can meat be frozen and then thawed, but something can't be uncooked?
Always wondered about that.

Speaking of cooking, its also a science experiment. Food changes flavor, texture, and even taste.
Shelf life is a whole other set of experiments, adding less than 1/10 of percent of something will extend the shelf life. Adding something else keeps the product consistency.

All these things are products and opportunities.

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Zale is President of Local Grown Salads, an Indoor Vertical Farm launching in .

What we eat and drink could soon change thanks to advances that allow for the creation of better ingredients, crops and animals. The biggest challenge: explaining the science to consumers.

04/24/2025

Did you know?
* Over $1.4B is spent in Philadelphia buying Fresh Vegetables.
* We grow over 60 fresh & delicious herbs, greens, and small vegetables in our Indoor Vertical Farms.
* We have a sales distribution contract delivering to retailers and food service.
$1.01B was Invested in Indoor Vertical Farming in 2020.
* We are projecting an 11X return to investors in 5 years.
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Allows Business Angels to download Local Grown Salads Investment Executive Summary describing the creation of an Indoor Vertical Farm in Philadelphia.

04/24/2025

Very excited.
We have just started an AI Drone project with some students with Arcadia university.

The Drone will photograph out plants and connect it with growing data.

We will use the process to monitor the plant growth. Initial functionality will be to identify problems.
The next phase will be to connect with sensor data and customer quality data and then improve yields, taste, and other measures.

04/23/2025

All about the how the food system works in the United States.

This all about how it works and how it got to where it is.

If you are looking to understand why things are so messed up, this is the podcast for you.

04/23/2025

When take a second to notice where your comes from.
It will be a bit shocking.
It travels a long way.
On average takes 3 days to get to you.

And this is bad for you for few reasons.
1) Taste is lost in the transportation.
2) Nutrition is lost in the transportation.
3) It increases the cost of the food.
4) It increases the amount of carbon in the atmosphere.

So when choosing a food to eat, choose and improve your health and the planet.

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04/23/2025

"About one-third of the fresh vegetables Americans eat and half of the fresh fruits are grown in other countries".
What an amazing market opportunity.

That shows the consumer demand for the products.
With a demand there is opportunity.
What are your ideas?

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04/22/2025

You can eat Oysters and save New York City from flooding.
Huh?
Billion Oyster Project is all about using oysters as a natural barrier in the New York harbor.
Every oyster is contributes the the reef, currently 10,000 lbs. a week.

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04/22/2025

Usually or as a Service is usually referring to technology that is provided to .

Things like used to monitor growing, .

But this article refers to being delivered from to consumers and retailers.
Most of it thought focuses on Indoor Vertical Farming companies.

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Over the last few years entrepreneurs have been experimenting with new kinds of farms. They're indoors, often vertical, and sometimes, they involve robots. (Or at least, automation.) One company even believes its machine learning-enhanced system will enable Farming-as-a-Service, a paradigm which all...

04/21/2025

Here is an article discussing rhe Aerofarms S**C with a link to a review of the AppHarvest **C.

Essentially he says they went public with a massive valuation based on potential future revenues and they do not have a serious plan to make the kinds of revenues they expect.

He articulates that they talk about how big the market is and they are hoping to get a small peice of it. A weak approach that no serious investor takes serious.
A company needs a plan and must be able to identify the number and amount of the market they can achieve. The TAM (Total Addressable Market) is useful as a predictor of potential competition, how many easy/hard it will be to find customers, and is growth at all possible. The TAM for cola drinks is huge, but since Coke and Pepsi dominate it, entering the market is tough.

He spends no time discussing the merits of the Aerofarms technology.
As bearish as he is on the company, an analysis of the tech would make it worse.

In the AppHarvest article he highlights that AppHarvest is relying on the Mastronnardi contract. He recognizes that AppHarvest is a Greenhouse operation (Indoor Growing) and not a Vertical Farming technology play.

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04/21/2025

I love what Mark from 360 One Firm (361Firm) does.

At its core, its a network of Family Offices, Institutional Investors, Strategic Advisors, Companies and some really smart folks.
But its also professors, investors, really smart folks, regular meetings, an App, friends, and an opportunity to learn about what makes the world tick.

Deals (www.361firm.com/onboard), India, VC (https://lnkd.in/eknhbc2), PCI Takeaways (https://lnkd.in/erU8_gv) and more in today's 361 Weekly Digest (https://lnkd.in/eH8TYg8). Today at 11am Briefing (https://lnkd.in/eWqy_aq) covers "China - The Other Growth Driver". Also, on March 4, we...

04/18/2025

& Investments For 7x Gains
These are broad multi-billion dollar areas to consider in

Inputs that increase yields and result in ending hunger
- Microbial fertilizers
- Disease control
- Breeding for a changing climate
- Aquaculture
- $520B market size

Production that will be effected by water, energy and environmental pricing
- Less resource intensive foods
- New production technics (e.g.:Indoor Vertical Farming)
- New forms of logging
- $2,175B market size

Food Processing that shifts to low waste or using waste as a source
- Reporting and analysis tools
- Alternatives foods heavy in Fats and Sugars
- Improvement of nutritional content
- Simpler, less processed foods
- $1,377B market size



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Companies could unlock US$2.3 trillion a year in the food and agriculture sectors with an annual investment of US$320 billion in sustainable business models by 2030, a 7-fold return on investment. This could also lead to more than 80 million jobs, according to a new report, Valuing the SDG Prize in....

04/18/2025

Are vegetables that are grown in an indoor environment natural?
Many are initially thrown off on the concept of growing their vegetables in this perceived "unnatural environment."
However, this is not the case. All plants and vegetables grown in indoor farming technologies are produced in a completely natural process.
The indoor environment is set to maximize the efficiency of what is being grown.

Let's consider the pea plant.
Pea plants need the energy from the kight of the sun and damp soil conditions.
But, pea plants are susceptible to frost, and growth is affected by seasonal change..

So how are pea plants grown in indoor farming?
The internal conditions are set to adhere to the pea plants' optimal growing conditions.
An indoor farm that grows pea plants will increase light exposure and provide the wet, damp soil.

Most importantly, vegetables grown in indoor farming will not be affected by the seasons or weather conditions like frost.
Overall, indoor farming allows to optimize efficiency and reduce waste.
The end product is a delicious and healthy vegetable grown in a completely natural setting.

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04/17/2025

This is a complex post because it merges a few investment trends into one.

It deals with . , , and .

You don't know what is? I didn't either. It is the one of the hottest new investment areas.
Keep reading....

As an you know what is. And you probably think its about it as owning land and renting it out.
And you would be correct, but missing the opportunity.
It is the basis of and and .

Farms are big, farms require a lot of capital expenditure, farmers are being replaced by younger folks.
Folks used to Uber and Apps and paying for things as they use them. In 2017 there were 908,749 of them.

You got it.

is Farming as a Service.

Its delivering the robots, the field monitoring and all the other things farmers need to produce .

The attached article goes through in great detail all the opportunities that exist.

This is the article that will start proper Due Diligence on the opportunity.

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Sustainable agriculture is among the most urgently needed work in the United States, for at least three reasons: we face an environmental crisis, a health crisis, and a rural economic crisis. Addressing these pressing crises through sustainability transition will require growing our agricultural wor...

04/17/2025

Let's assume for a few minutes you are a angel investor and have decided to in .
The top level things you focus on are:
1) The Person Leading
2) The Team
3) The Idea
4) The Scalability Of The Idea
5) The Risk vs. The Return.

All of these are a single I believe all these these can be integrated ii

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04/17/2025

Local Grown Salads' contribution to the UN Sustainable Goal 2 Targets
End hunger, achieve security and improved nutrition and promote
2.2 Address the nutritional needs of women of all ages and older persons
- Local produce has the greatest nutritional value
- Healthy fresh produce at reasonable prices

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04/16/2025

How does a 7x Return on your investment sound?
That is what is available from investing in .

The parts of the chain that are high value and need new ideas include (worldwide value, examples):

Inputs - $520B Market, realizers, seeds, livestock, fish stock
Production - $1,175B Market, , Palm Oil
- $1,377B Market, food waste, sugar products, unfortified food
- $300B,Market Storage, traceability
& - $7,180 Market, food waste, low consumer differentiation



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Companies could unlock US$2.3 trillion a year in the food and agriculture sectors with an annual investment of US$320 billion in sustainable business models by 2030, a 7-fold return on investment. This could also lead to more than 80 million jobs, according to a new report, Valuing the SDG Prize in....

04/16/2025

This is a great e-book from The Packer to understand another opportunity in the marketplace.
Consumers care about one thing and the growers care about something else.

But the consumer is the one doing the purchasing.

The opportunity exists in focusing on the unmet consumer demand.

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PACKAGING: WIN CONSUMERS' HEARTS AND MINDS What do consumers really want from you? Consumer demand for sustainably sourced goods and packaging is at an all-time high. Despite various efforts by growers and buyers, many companies still struggle to appeal to the green consumer. While producers and pac...

04/16/2025

Systemic Bias, Photography and Shirley?
What is Zale going off on now?

I learned something new today, Shirley cards. These were cards produced by Kodak for the purpose of quality control of the chemicals in photography. Shirley cards were photographs of a white women with brunette hair. The technician would adjust the system to match the Shirley card.

Sounds good, right?
What does that have to do with systemic bias or racism? It's all technical crap.

The problem is, the matching doesn't show black and brown skin tones correctly. Dark skin tones don't show up the way they are in reality. By having a white women created a bias for film that showed white folks better than folks of color.
I am not saying or implying that Kodak was racist, in fact, once they were explained the problem they introduced films that solved the problem. (see the article)

But, the story is a great demonstration of how bias can be introduced without intention.
This is just one example of what is called "systemic racism". It's not that people are intentionally racist, it's that the system becomes racist (or at least bias) against people of color.

The problem in photography occurred at the beginning of the industry because the people developing the preparation technology didn't think about Black folks. Probably, because there were no Black folks working there. (that is probably a whole other story)

This is why progressive organizations work hard at having teams with people from a range of communities. These types of teams provide prospective that gets lost when everyone in the room looks the same.

its good business, it helps identify opportunities that can be overlooked.

The article is excellent, it covers the intersection of a nerd tech article with problems in bias.
And how things are improving.

Read it to learn how we can see the bias in our thinking.

Sarah Lewis explores the relationship between racism and the camera.