FOUNDERS
We are committed to creating a diverse community
of people of integrity and kind spirit with the common goal
to Glorify the cosmic force we call God Almighty through
1. Appreciation, 2. Adoration, 3. Affection, and 4. Subjection
of people of integrity and kind spirit with the common goal
to Glorify the cosmic force we call God Almighty through
1. Appreciation, 2. Adoration, 3. Affection, and 4. Subjection
NANI-WAIATA KOROMETE
Chief Executive Officer
DEPARTMENTS OVERSEEN
JOINT VENTURES, GREENHOUSE OPERATIONS, NURSERY, REGULATORY COMPLIANCE, EDUCATION & TRAINING. FOOD SAFETY, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, FACILITIES MANAGEMENT, PACKAGING DESIGN, HUMAN RESOURCES, PURCHASING, RESEARCH, PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT, SALES, ADVERTISING, AND MARKETING.
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ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGNER
and PLANT ECOLOGIST
SPECIALIZING IN GREENHOUSE CROP MANAGEMENT
Personal and Agriculture Background
Nani-Waiata spent the early years of her life in Southern California with a blended, multi-language, multi-national heritage. She was raised by her German father (who was adopted NZ Maori Ngati Tuwharetoa- Tahere Whaunau) and her Indigenous Native Inca/Spanish Basque/Maori descent mother. Agribusiness (farm produce to market) was her favored major background training. She was taught and mentored by the legendary James Bailey, an amazing man who created, built, and managed the Orange County Agricultural Fairground's "Centennial Educational Farm" which Nani participated in the inaugural set up. While living in New Zealand, Nani managed her nearly 4 acres of Vegetable and Fruit Producing farm, which included a Greenhouse with Organic Hydroponic System, Citrus & Fruit orchards, Orchid Shade houses and Ornamental Gardens. The property, with a stream running through it, was a favorite on the local area garden tour. Approximately 98% of this Paradise had plants mentioned in the bible and Nani's education in Plant Ecology included an extensive study of Bible based plants and the Creator's diet. In 2008, she came back to the west coast and with her husband developed Fresh and Salt Water Aquaculture and Hydroponic Growing Systems. Currently living in North Alabama, she is growing Microgreens, Petite and Full size greens as well as Tilapia Fish out of their state of the art
Business Background
Nani's degrees are in Environmental and Interior Architectural Design with a minor in furniture design/manufacturing. She had an Interior Design Firm and Home Goods factory with as many as 42 employees for 9 years in Southern California. She has design and build experience in major projects including luxury hotel Shutters on the Beach Hotel, Santa Monica (1993), the Nevada Estates and Servants Living Compounds for His Majesty the Sultan of Brunei Spanish Trails ($60 million project) and Tomiyasu Ranch ($25 million project), and other projects with internationally renowned master planning firm, Klages Carter Vail & Partners (now RNL Design). Her own Design firm also won the contract to build eight (8) retail stores featuring intimate apparel & lingerie for MRJ Industries, "Lingerie Time" in South California destination malls.
As a commodities broker for several years with one of US West Coast largest commodities firms, she developed an understanding of hedging agricultural commodities and banking within the economy. In contrast to her agriculture, design and financial management career, Nani created an alternative health center on Newport Blvd in Costa Mesa, CA, working with as many as seventeen practitioners in various modalities for health and wellness care.
In New Zealand, Nani and her youngest son, Brandon, sold produce from their Orchards in the Agriculture B2B marketplace as well as direct farm to table. Currently living in North Alabama, she and dear friend Lisa Gels, founded an innovative start-up, Alabama Microgreens, selling a variety of greens and other eco-friendly delights.
Nani-Waiata spent the early years of her life in Southern California with a blended, multi-language, multi-national heritage. She was raised by her German father (who was adopted NZ Maori Ngati Tuwharetoa- Tahere Whaunau) and her Indigenous Native Inca/Spanish Basque/Maori descent mother. Agribusiness (farm produce to market) was her favored major background training. She was taught and mentored by the legendary James Bailey, an amazing man who created, built, and managed the Orange County Agricultural Fairground's "Centennial Educational Farm" which Nani participated in the inaugural set up. While living in New Zealand, Nani managed her nearly 4 acres of Vegetable and Fruit Producing farm, which included a Greenhouse with Organic Hydroponic System, Citrus & Fruit orchards, Orchid Shade houses and Ornamental Gardens. The property, with a stream running through it, was a favorite on the local area garden tour. Approximately 98% of this Paradise had plants mentioned in the bible and Nani's education in Plant Ecology included an extensive study of Bible based plants and the Creator's diet. In 2008, she came back to the west coast and with her husband developed Fresh and Salt Water Aquaculture and Hydroponic Growing Systems. Currently living in North Alabama, she is growing Microgreens, Petite and Full size greens as well as Tilapia Fish out of their state of the art
Business Background
Nani's degrees are in Environmental and Interior Architectural Design with a minor in furniture design/manufacturing. She had an Interior Design Firm and Home Goods factory with as many as 42 employees for 9 years in Southern California. She has design and build experience in major projects including luxury hotel Shutters on the Beach Hotel, Santa Monica (1993), the Nevada Estates and Servants Living Compounds for His Majesty the Sultan of Brunei Spanish Trails ($60 million project) and Tomiyasu Ranch ($25 million project), and other projects with internationally renowned master planning firm, Klages Carter Vail & Partners (now RNL Design). Her own Design firm also won the contract to build eight (8) retail stores featuring intimate apparel & lingerie for MRJ Industries, "Lingerie Time" in South California destination malls.
As a commodities broker for several years with one of US West Coast largest commodities firms, she developed an understanding of hedging agricultural commodities and banking within the economy. In contrast to her agriculture, design and financial management career, Nani created an alternative health center on Newport Blvd in Costa Mesa, CA, working with as many as seventeen practitioners in various modalities for health and wellness care.
In New Zealand, Nani and her youngest son, Brandon, sold produce from their Orchards in the Agriculture B2B marketplace as well as direct farm to table. Currently living in North Alabama, she and dear friend Lisa Gels, founded an innovative start-up, Alabama Microgreens, selling a variety of greens and other eco-friendly delights.
QUENTIN KOROMETE
PIONEER, INVENTOR and PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
DEPARTMENTS OVERSEEN
ENGINEERING, TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT, FISHERY MANAGEMENT, WASTE & COMPOST, PATENT DEVELOPMENT, SYSTEMS OPERATIONS, PERFORMANCE AND PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT, PHOTOVOLTAIC ENERGY, AND QUALITY ASSURANCE.
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Agriculture and Aquaculture
Quentin was born and raised on a 2,000-acre dry stock farm in Whakaangiangi Valley East Cape, New Zealand (NZ) where natural food was growing everywhere. He has been a Civil Engineer for over 37 years with an added post-graduate education in Aquaculture from the prestigious Deakin University in Australia, specializing in Aquaculture, Nutrition, Propagation, and Water Quality for various sea and fresh water systems. In 1990, he developed the first NZ Abalone Farm Training Program (Maxcess) and built a Shellfish farm (Lobster, Abalone, Mussels, and Uni) on Stevenson Island in New Zealand which was fully funded by the unemployment division of the NZ Labor Department. In 1999 for his University thesis, he built the first operational Abalone re-circulating hatchery unit in the world and he was the proud "father" of baby abalone, albeit by chance after utilizing what he thought was common aquaculture practices. As it so happened his technique was unique. In August 2001 he obtained a fish farming licence from the Ministry of Fisheries for his own Saltwater Aquaponics system.
Quentin was a founder of Ruawaipu Tribal Authority for which he planned, designed and built a re-circulating Abalone Hatchery and developed a half tonne production abalone system for non-experienced farmers at Potaka which opened on February 1, 2004. It was truly one of the first Salt & Fresh Water Aquaponic systems world wide because this closed loop system in which the 18C degree Saltwater shellfish waste fed the 35C degree brackish water seaweed he was growing to feed them. Earlier in 1995 he developed the Te Urunga O Te Ra Economic Development Society Constitution and business plan and remained Treasurer of the Waiapu Farmers Co-Coperative re-building project until 2006. In 2007, he assisted his wife in developing and "Organic" Hydroponic system which instead of synthetic fertilizer his wife insisted must use nature made liquid fertilizer. After moving over seas, in 2012 he built an organic hydroponic system that allowed both he and his wife to enjoy fresh quality organic vegetables every day for their vegan diet. Missing fish in his diet, a year later 2013 he built a 100 square foot greenhouse, aquaponic system growing Tilapia and vegetables together. The unit also included a compost unit which provided organic fertilizer for the vegatables mimicking the system he developed 15 years earlier. In 2013-2014 he built a Community sized Aquafarm, under the roof of a 12,000 square feet of Greenhouse in Newport Beach, CA. 2,000 square feet was just the Organic Hydroponic System and 1,000 feet of (fish) raceway tanks. In 2014 he donated his time and some resources to build a small educational unit for Coastkeepers Garden located at the site on the back of Santiago Canyon College in Orange, California. 2015 has been spent enhancing his systems such as developing L.E.D. lighting for the algae tanks and Photovoltaic technology to ensure the systems can remain 100% off-grid.
Civil Engineering
As a province representative of Thames Valley Rugby for two (2) years, Quentin turned down the opportunity to play for the world renowned NZ All Blacks Rugby team and instead choose to travel overseas to follow his passion of Civil Engineering. Quentin is a rare Civil Engineer in that he is experienced in numerous sub-disciplines within Civil Engineering that include architectural engineering, geotechnical engineering, structural engineering, water resources engineering, hydraulic engineering, transportation engineering, environmental engineering, quantity surveying, coastal engineering, construction surveying and construction engineering.
In the early 1980’s his specialty of geotechnical, civil contract, hydraulics and structural engineering landed him in England as a Civil Engineer with The Cementation Company (aka Cementation Skanska) the 3rd largest construction company in England at the time. After demonstrating his talent, he was then promoted as trouble-shooter for the Company’s Military Defense Contracts within United Kingdom. For the next four (4) years he was appointed as Site Civil Engineer for various problematic projects that included: a Naval Air-force base which entailed extensions to the runways to cater for larger aircrafts, installing new landing lights and catch nets for over runs; building an Inter-continental mobile missile silo; a 5-story Bomb defusing factory; a 22-mile long Supply Pipeline for a Military facility; and Military Housing units with a 200 vehicle parking lot.
Quentin returned to New Zealand to work with local council/county government agencies and managed budgets over $15 million annually to build roads, bridges and develop new maintenance contracts. As the Compliance Engineer for a new type of low-cost housing structure (no nails) he produced a Code of Compliance Manual to be adopted by the New Zealand Government. As a NZ local government official he developed a new system to repair roads at very low cost for which he present a paper at the World Conference for Sustainable Transportation (2004), attended by over 400 engineers from all over the world. Since then he has run his own private engineering company building new housing subdivisions, state of the art irrigation systems, farmland de-watering, surveying and analyzing the viability for hydro-electric sites all over the Country for 2-10 megawatt power stations. In addition, Quentin has 30+ years of business experience, writing business plans with full financial forecasts, a legal background as a Law Practitioner with the United Tribes of New Zealand with specialized education in civil technology and contract law.
Nicknamed Batman (a superhero who tends to break the rules) and often called a Maverick, MacGyver, and Mad Man Workaholic, Quentin is still physically fit, hands-on, handy with tools, not-to be humble to get his hands dirty digging ditches or mending fences kind of guy. He has built five houses, two of which used technology ahead of its time and requiring only a few days to complete. Aquaculture lends itself to Quentin's knowledge of hydraulics (water) and structures together, which are important disciplines when designing new systems.
Quentin was born and raised on a 2,000-acre dry stock farm in Whakaangiangi Valley East Cape, New Zealand (NZ) where natural food was growing everywhere. He has been a Civil Engineer for over 37 years with an added post-graduate education in Aquaculture from the prestigious Deakin University in Australia, specializing in Aquaculture, Nutrition, Propagation, and Water Quality for various sea and fresh water systems. In 1990, he developed the first NZ Abalone Farm Training Program (Maxcess) and built a Shellfish farm (Lobster, Abalone, Mussels, and Uni) on Stevenson Island in New Zealand which was fully funded by the unemployment division of the NZ Labor Department. In 1999 for his University thesis, he built the first operational Abalone re-circulating hatchery unit in the world and he was the proud "father" of baby abalone, albeit by chance after utilizing what he thought was common aquaculture practices. As it so happened his technique was unique. In August 2001 he obtained a fish farming licence from the Ministry of Fisheries for his own Saltwater Aquaponics system.
Quentin was a founder of Ruawaipu Tribal Authority for which he planned, designed and built a re-circulating Abalone Hatchery and developed a half tonne production abalone system for non-experienced farmers at Potaka which opened on February 1, 2004. It was truly one of the first Salt & Fresh Water Aquaponic systems world wide because this closed loop system in which the 18C degree Saltwater shellfish waste fed the 35C degree brackish water seaweed he was growing to feed them. Earlier in 1995 he developed the Te Urunga O Te Ra Economic Development Society Constitution and business plan and remained Treasurer of the Waiapu Farmers Co-Coperative re-building project until 2006. In 2007, he assisted his wife in developing and "Organic" Hydroponic system which instead of synthetic fertilizer his wife insisted must use nature made liquid fertilizer. After moving over seas, in 2012 he built an organic hydroponic system that allowed both he and his wife to enjoy fresh quality organic vegetables every day for their vegan diet. Missing fish in his diet, a year later 2013 he built a 100 square foot greenhouse, aquaponic system growing Tilapia and vegetables together. The unit also included a compost unit which provided organic fertilizer for the vegatables mimicking the system he developed 15 years earlier. In 2013-2014 he built a Community sized Aquafarm, under the roof of a 12,000 square feet of Greenhouse in Newport Beach, CA. 2,000 square feet was just the Organic Hydroponic System and 1,000 feet of (fish) raceway tanks. In 2014 he donated his time and some resources to build a small educational unit for Coastkeepers Garden located at the site on the back of Santiago Canyon College in Orange, California. 2015 has been spent enhancing his systems such as developing L.E.D. lighting for the algae tanks and Photovoltaic technology to ensure the systems can remain 100% off-grid.
Civil Engineering
As a province representative of Thames Valley Rugby for two (2) years, Quentin turned down the opportunity to play for the world renowned NZ All Blacks Rugby team and instead choose to travel overseas to follow his passion of Civil Engineering. Quentin is a rare Civil Engineer in that he is experienced in numerous sub-disciplines within Civil Engineering that include architectural engineering, geotechnical engineering, structural engineering, water resources engineering, hydraulic engineering, transportation engineering, environmental engineering, quantity surveying, coastal engineering, construction surveying and construction engineering.
In the early 1980’s his specialty of geotechnical, civil contract, hydraulics and structural engineering landed him in England as a Civil Engineer with The Cementation Company (aka Cementation Skanska) the 3rd largest construction company in England at the time. After demonstrating his talent, he was then promoted as trouble-shooter for the Company’s Military Defense Contracts within United Kingdom. For the next four (4) years he was appointed as Site Civil Engineer for various problematic projects that included: a Naval Air-force base which entailed extensions to the runways to cater for larger aircrafts, installing new landing lights and catch nets for over runs; building an Inter-continental mobile missile silo; a 5-story Bomb defusing factory; a 22-mile long Supply Pipeline for a Military facility; and Military Housing units with a 200 vehicle parking lot.
Quentin returned to New Zealand to work with local council/county government agencies and managed budgets over $15 million annually to build roads, bridges and develop new maintenance contracts. As the Compliance Engineer for a new type of low-cost housing structure (no nails) he produced a Code of Compliance Manual to be adopted by the New Zealand Government. As a NZ local government official he developed a new system to repair roads at very low cost for which he present a paper at the World Conference for Sustainable Transportation (2004), attended by over 400 engineers from all over the world. Since then he has run his own private engineering company building new housing subdivisions, state of the art irrigation systems, farmland de-watering, surveying and analyzing the viability for hydro-electric sites all over the Country for 2-10 megawatt power stations. In addition, Quentin has 30+ years of business experience, writing business plans with full financial forecasts, a legal background as a Law Practitioner with the United Tribes of New Zealand with specialized education in civil technology and contract law.
Nicknamed Batman (a superhero who tends to break the rules) and often called a Maverick, MacGyver, and Mad Man Workaholic, Quentin is still physically fit, hands-on, handy with tools, not-to be humble to get his hands dirty digging ditches or mending fences kind of guy. He has built five houses, two of which used technology ahead of its time and requiring only a few days to complete. Aquaculture lends itself to Quentin's knowledge of hydraulics (water) and structures together, which are important disciplines when designing new systems.
We, the Founders are loyal and decided believers in Jesus Christ.
OUR PROJECTS ARE DEDICATED TO THE GLORY OF GOD
OUR PROJECTS ARE DEDICATED TO THE GLORY OF GOD
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256-840-7040 Alabama Office & Text
646-770-FOOD (3663) HQ