PICTURE TOUR

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Saladacres grows some of the purest most nutritious produce on the planet in greenhouses. Our produce is clean, and completely free of chemical pesticides and herbicides, and grown with 52 minerals. It is competitive in price with field grown produce, and “better than organic”.

We specialize in growing produce for prepared bagged salads, ready to eat complete meal salads, EMA juice bases (Electrolytes, Minerals, and Antioxidants), and culinary and medicinal herbs.

Our greenhouses are a combination of innovations and new technologies. Growing conditions are maintained at optimal levels in greenhouses with renewable energy sources. The irrigation water is purified, free of contaminants and mineral rich. By recirculating the water, we use far less water than field grown crops. Our production is sustainable and pollution free. Crops are grown and processed year round.

We will build our greenhouses next to city markets where products will be delivered within hours of harvest, year round, and at prices competitive with seasonal, and usually imported field-grown crops. We invite joint ventures and partnerships.

PICTURE TOUR

SCROLL DOWN FOR AN INTRODUCTION TO SALADACRES

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PRODUCTS WE MAKE
Salads
Bagged Salads: Over 30 varieties of spinach, lettuce, Chinese Vegetables, root crops, greens, broccoli, onions, radish, chard......

Complete meal salads: add beans, peas, dressings, wraps, and breadstick for a full meal

Culinary Herbs
Top 11 culinary herbs sold in bags or as living mats

Medicinal Herbs, Processed Products
Sold as processed products
Only 10% of herbals currently used in medicines and cosmetics are certified as organic

EMA Juice
EMA is a live juice combination of electrolytes, minerals, and antioxidants extracted by a cold process from the green leaves and roots of our crops.  EMA is a powerful nutrient, where the chlorophyll and enzymes are still "living" and the minerals are bound with organic compounds for 100% absorbtion.

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We will replace imports and develop our own unique product lines.  We will supply high quality, nutrient rich, pure salad produce, year round, at competitive prices.

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We are the best in the business for color, taste, texture, and flavor. We specialize in 'short' crops, or those under 24" / 60cm high.

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                                                Fantastic versatility

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At the heart of the operation is the greenhouse range complex. Each range is composed of 20 climate buildings –designed and automated for optimal crop production.

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                    DESIGNS ARE CONSTRUCTION AND PERMIT READY
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       Designer Ron Tuttle: Scale sections were built, modified, and proven

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This is a scale model of the range.  The steel and polycarbonate building is heated with hot water piping embedded in the floor.

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Developer Tuttle on the cover of a national trade magazine in 1991

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Crops are grown in clean conditions, with clean water and a spotless growing environment.  Crops are tended standing up - no stooping, crawling, or back fatigue.

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                            This is a bare root, soilless operation

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Renewable biomass heating fuels such as straw are used in biomass combustion systems – NO MORE GAS OR HYDROCARBON FUELS12.
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Burning biomass fuels makes us independent of fossil fuels for heating; this keeps production costs product costs even and low all year round. Pollution is next to zero.

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Renewable fuels make hot water, that is used for electricity and heat.  These are almost free with this system. 
Fuels are:
- Agriculture: straw, manures (cattle and chicken)
- Forestry: clearing, chips, sawdust, municipal green waste 
- Municipal: garbage, plastics, tires, carpets, construction waste
- Solar: hot water collectors

There is never a shortage of cheap renewable fuels with our technology

Above is the 'Buzzard' (burns anything) biomass boiler assembly that burns renewable fuels.  It consists of the rotary incinerator, heat exchangers and turbine.

The turbine that runs on hot water heat.

Production Advantages
 LOWER COSTS OF PRODUCTION : A CROP A MONTH
 CROPS ARE BETTER THAN ORGANIC FOR PURITY
 YEAR ROUND PRODUCTION
 1/10 OF THE IRRIGATION WATER: WE RECIRCULATE
 ZERO POLLUTION
 WATER CAN BE SOURCED FROM RIVERS, LAKES, LAGOONS, OCEAN, ‘GREY SEWAGE’, AND GROUND WATER. IT IS TREATED TO A ‘RAINWATER GRADE’ IRRIGATION BASE.
 CHEAP RENEWABLE FUELS
 NO FOSSIL FUELS HEATING
 SUSTAINABLE: THE OPERATION USES NO DEPLETABLE RESOURCES
 REPLACES IMPORTS; PROMOTES SELF SUFFICIENCY AND HOMELAND SECURITY
 NO MORE SEASONS
 ABOUT A CROP PER MONTH
 WINTER CROPS CAN BE BETTER THAN SUMMER CROPS
 NO PESTICIDES OR HERBICIDES - PURE 

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WE WILL LOCATE CLOSE TO LARGE URBAN MARKETS TO MINIMIZE TRANSPORT TIME TO MARKET
SALES ARE AS DIRECT AS POSSIBLE FOR A RAPID AND SECURE CASH FLOW

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HUGE DEMAND AND MARKET GROWTH

 THE DEMAND FOR “ORGANIC” PRODUCE IN AMERICA IS ESTIMATED AT $13 BILLION (U.S.)  SALADS LEAD THE WAY. IT IS HUGE. THERE IS NOT ENOUGH “ORGANIC CERTIFIED” LAND LEFT TO GROW ORGANIC PRODUCE TO MEET THE DEMAND

 THE DEMAND FOR MEDICINAL HERBS IS OVER $12 BILLION, AND IS DOUBLING EVERY 5 YEARS.

 EVERY PERSON IS OUR MARKET. EVERY PERSON!

 WE NOW REALIZE THAT WITHOUT FRESH FOOD, PEOPLE LIVE SHORT LIVES OR DIE.

16.  COMPETITION
U.S.
• Huge pressure on Salinas, Imperial, and other U.S. growers to grow produce on depleting soils
• Lack of water, water quality, and energy costs are big problems
• Recent incident of E. coli contamination
MEXICO & CENTRAL AMERICA
• Quality is the issue
• Poor soil quality, lack of controls, use of deadly chemicals is common
• Use of DDT by the drumload
• Irrigation water carries disease with the use of black water (human sewage)
• Irrigation water polluted by industrial contaminants
• Quality deteriorates because of long transport time

17.  Mexican Competition

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19.  DROUGHT

The traditional growing areas such as California, Arizona, and Mexico are drying up.  Severe drought is happening in Central Alberta.

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We face 6 interconnected trends that affect food production.
 Climate change
 Land exhaustion
 Land erosion
 Urbanization of farmland
 Pesticide use
 Dependence on fossil fuels

We can do something other than worry

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                                   Climate  Change Means Drought

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Climate change means sand taking over

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We depend on the soil for our existence. The soil provides minerals to the crops we eat. When they are taken from the soil, they are gone and absent for following crops. Every crop takes out minerals until there is the minimal number of 5 needed to grow crops great in bulk, but of little vitality. Most farm soils have only 5-6 minerals left and this is the base of the food chain.

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Year after year, the soil is cut, churned, sometimes irrigated, and cropped. The minerals are pulled out, then the soil gives up.

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                         Over irrigation deposits excess salts

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Urbanization of farmland; the original rich farmland is covered or being covered with roads, buildings, and houses

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Wide scale use of pesticides

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Another problem in produce growing is the increasing cost of energy.

15 units of petroleum energy are used to create one unit of food energy – the food chain is dangerously dependent on oil.
There are 22,200 trucks a day on the road delivering produce to from Mexico, California, and Florida. $120 / barrel oil, $.15 + /kWh electricity, and $11.00 + /GJoule natural gas costs are coming.

Ethanol fuel from grains will double and triple the cost of all food; populations must shrink.

Fresh field produce costs are going higher
Our costs are stable

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Diet
Bacteria is embedded in produce and cannot be washed off.