NEXT STEPS

With help from our collaborators, we are tackling two major obstacles that emerged on our journey to becoming a climate positive agribusiness.

Putting these ideas to practice as the cornerstones of our Environmental Impact Strategy, we are:

• Working alongside expert consultants to construct a custom, state-of-the-art biorefinery capable of pyrolyzing all of our postprocessing biomass.

• Conducting field trials with unique recipes that utilize biorefinery outputs —biochar, ash, and pyroligneous acid (PA)— to build topsoil and sequester carbon. These recipes will include strategic inoculants from our compost operation that are tailored to our soil needs.

• Constructing 2-megawatt solar array to power factory functions. This includes a backup power switch system.

• Working with Belize Electricity Ltd. to establish a gridfeeding system for solar energy overflow. • Determining feedstock availability across all farms; feed stocks include coconut husks and shells, citrus and fruit pulps, bamboo, and deadfall from trees.

• Formulating soil-healing methods using large-scale biochar, ash, PA, and compost applications to accelerate topsoil regeneration and carbon sequestration.

• Exploring markets for biorefinery outputs in excess of what can be used on the farm.

• Continuing to observe soil, water, climate and ecosystem features to let nature lead, leave the land better and waste nothing.