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My name is Alex
there's my boy Nick where he ran Oakland Calif
and we're on a mission to inspire more people to grow their own food
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actually all-star topper of the couple years ago your last semester at UC
berkeley
we both the nearest heading in the corporate world John Lockes I was going
to consulting out going to invest in Beijing
and her a few months before graduation he fell in love with this
totally random fact they could potentially rolled gourmet mushrooms
on coffee waste nobody had ever tried it
we are the only two crazy kids in the class they went up to the professor and
got more info
tried out a few test buckets nearly outta my fraternity
ended up getting five thousand dollars from our Chancellor and
at that point he said what the heck give up thank you give up consulting
full-time russian Prime it is
that bad was our first product much regarded
a little brown box like anyone to their own fresh mushrooms
and over the past couple years P real-life absolutely
on their luck people go there for her plans for the plant
flies quite some time yes
and today we're excited to now introduce
our brand new product that personal upon expiry
aquaponics the closed-loop system
makes symbiotic relationship a plan
fish the fish they Huang AP
it and all that wastewater actually gets upcycled
and its use as the fertilizer for plants and what's really cool is that
the plants themselves clean water and then come back down for the place
and the best part that all this happening
I thought well I without in chemical fertilizers
the plans are going poorly just a rock all the fertilizer
nutrient coming from a fish and you never have to clean the water so it's a
self-cleaning Tate
are spent the past
eight-month working the top designers and up honey
experts make that a reality bring it in a home
in classrooms are
on it is amazing it uses ninety percent less water
then any other farming system and it's been used by
hobbyists and commercial farmers but the prospect to bring it into the home
was really exciting
the challenge was to take all the thinking and learning if commercial I
complex
think and then sat down the goal of making something countries more
accessible and inspirational and educational honey
her
slyly on Kickstarter on my car first product a mushroom garden which
we were able to preach about 5,000 bucks to get our first cardboard boxes
a tooling costs for the occupying started
is really expensive like extremely expect yep
just to get this thing injected molded domestically in the quality or condo
Picasa hundred thousand dollars to cover the cost mauled
we don't have the funds to do that alone to get the things produced
with the site of Indraprastha with a pre-order right here
Pixar scheme a lil sis
me
here's how Kickstarter works either we hit the ball and we all get the upcoming
start in
or not a single one of us gets a Sophie ever wanted car through the whole
you know someone that day Katie think your parents your friend
now is the time to make it happen and there is nothing
more important right now than taking back our food and we have got to take
back your help
simply I do that every you can one dollar
five dollars 30 rock upon excited enjoy the amazing award
or shared on Facebook or Twitter I mean anything to help us grow this movement
taking so much thank you
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