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Hilltop Moringa Farms
We teach what we Practice
CONCEPT
CUBEPONICS
Cubeponics is the most efficient carbon sequestration system increasing by orders of magnitude biometrics/mensuration, commercial value, and gross domestic product from neglected secondary forests. This living biodiversity system eradicates local agrarian poverty, sustains indefinitely, and spontaneously achieves by orders of magnitude. This we teach from what we do.
We want people who are passionate about using natural and inexpensive means to remove carbon from the atmosphere.
At HMF we are making practical applications of cumulative knowledge.
We are not original thinkers, but we are innovative about using existing knowledge.
Our prototype is being developed. Although it is small, we need team members who may add knowledge, know-how, or support.
There is nothing fancy here. Our methods are plain and simple.
We do use innovation. You are welcome to learn more, free.
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Vision Statement
To be the premier producer of healthy chemical-additive-free Moringa oleifera herbal products in the Philippines and beyond with direct monetary returns and recognition to and on behalf of our community, all achieved incrementally and sustainably for this generation and future generations to come sustainably.
Mission Statement
Hilltop Moringa Farms designs a new paradigm for consuming healthy and enjoyable-to-eat herbal-based products, led by its premier Moringa oleifera food for broad spectrum worldwide consumption. Hilltop Moringa Farms strives to lead the consumer paradigm of healthy eating with its healthy food and snacks for consumers wanting to be healthy and happy.
Hilltop Moringa Farms is reinventing from passive and purposeless eating to healthy and purposeful eating. It is redefining the future of complementary healthy foods while enabling millions of growers coincidentally to achieve reforestation.
At Hilltop Moringa Farms, thanks to the XPRIZE Carbon Removal contest, we are so motivated to achieve the reforestation goals that whether we win the contest or not, we WIN.
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Immediate Need
Project 1. Create a Demonstration Agro Forest using Biodiversity and Centering on Sustainability
Small scale farming of Moringa oleifera and several other plants such as Citronella Grass, Turmeric, Neem, Atis and Mulberry. However, the primary cash flow product comes from the leaves of merely 176 Moringa oleifera trees. The idea is to show our cost, income and the net. Total transparency and the results are audited by one of the big auditing firms. The per square meter income is more than 13 times as great as pilay (rice). The overall income from the 176 trees provides a positive cash flow to operate and expand the exisitng demonstration farm. All is open to the public but caters to the small poor farmer who wants another way but is not certain how to get there. We provide that know how.
Project 2. Scale Up by More than Two Orders of Magnitude through Community Participation
With the understanding of the farmers and having their invitation in hand to expand into the community the expansion takes form in three segments. After the planning and agreements forged in the first segment commences with the first planting of 33,000 Moringa oleifera on Barangay land. The swath is 50 meters on each side of an existing irrigation ditch and stretches the length. In total, after three years of planting swath measures 100 meters wide and 1,000 meters long which equates to 10 hectares. Planted there are 100,000 Moringa oleifera. One hundred farmer families benefit directly and eight hundred more indirectly through infrastructural improvements.
Project 3. Scale up to Achieve Critical Mass for Reforestation of the Philippines.
To achieve seven percent or critical mass we must get 2,940 barangays to participate in much the same way, earning in much the same way and becoming ambassadors of the project through their own participation through replication. The expense of the product manufacturing and marketing is already provided through cash flow from the Barangay Tanyag expansion to 100,000 trees. Each tree produces a net revenue of around US$79 per year. US$7.9m is a heafty sum of cash flow to manage the expansion projects of those participating barangays.
Our Moringa products are made from dried leaves that we harvest from our Moringa trees. The best market is international retail using direct sales through the Internet. The customer pays market price, signs up for auto-ship and auto-pay and becomes a repeat customer. Also, another advantage is that in this sales model the customer pays for shipping.
We began production and then the bureaucracy caught up with us and shut us down since we did not have a license from the Food and Drug Administration ("FDA"). We were inspected and given requirements to renovate our existing drying area. Photos appear below. The cost of materials and construction is approximately USD100,000.00.
We are located in a rural area where land is not titled and therefore obtaining a bank loan is out of the question.
Earnings from one year of production of FDA approved product is USD326,000.00.
Addition to existing one-story facility.
Renovation of existing one-story drying facility.
Renovation of existing one-story drying facility.
Addition to existing one-story facility.