Aquaponics in Urban Agriculture, repurposing an old brewery for new life.

1. Reinventing
1408 Elwood into a
Food Science Park
LivingWater:A SolvLED and Causeative Project

2. WhoWe Are:
• SolvLED is a lighting and automation company that has experience in solution-based
projects for indoor agriculture. From automated lighting to specific light spectrum
and nutrient delivery systems, we have taken the complexities and cost out of local
food production and maximized output and nutrient density to enable what we call
“just in time” production of nutrient dense greens and other high value ingredients.
We deliver systems that drive down the cost of high quality food so populations can
access a new standard of organic produce that is grown locally, enjoying the
associated health benefits.
• Causeative™ is a societal engineering firm that has created a nexus approach to
evolve economic development into social, environmental and economic development
on systems-based solutions that leverage the power of 3 generations into positive
cause driven projects.
• Phantom Ranch Farms is a strategic investment platform for high net worth
individuals who prefer to remain out of the spotlight but see the massive implications
in social justice of our solutions that deliver nutrient dense food in any climate
condition.
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3. Indiana has needs too - Our solution provides a year
round solution for organic nutrient dense produce
and fresh fish. Like other “Rust Belt” States, despite
its cold winters, our solution provides use to an
abundance of former manufacturing facilities, steel
mills, and breweries rather than just letting them sit
idol and deteriorate.
Our passion is solving future food security for all
people while addressing social, economic and
environmental variables in the process…
Our system solves year-round economic production at
scale that can improve overall security (access to
affordable nutrient dense food) while adding the social
benefits of job creation and keeping more dollars local.
In addition, it has massive environmental implications
in utilizing 98% less water and taking a bite out of
climate change by drastically reducing the impact of
long distance transportation, refrigeration
duplication/duration, and key emissions in methane
and nitrous oxide, in addition to complete elimination
of sulphates, and other treatments used as fungicides
and pesticides that contaminate the soil for other uses
and are dangerous when ingested or inhaled.
In short, it uses less energy to create the food on your
plate, less water to grow, and is symbiotic in its use of
waste to reuse it for a nutrient source, all while giving
you fresh nutrient dense food that tastes great and is
better for your health without contaminating the
environment for generations to come.
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4. The pros and cons of indoor (vertical) farming

5. How SolvLED has Solved EconomicCultivation
With Social and Environmental Impact
• Automation of highly technical systems to minimize expertise.
• Retained harvesting and working class positions and that can have higher
pay because of reduced logistics costs.
• Partnered with an established environmental scientists to create high
quality (GMP) production facilities using affordable retrofit solutions
(=access to turn around deteriorating industrial space nationally).
• Direct manufacturing significantly reducing the largest costs in equipment
procurement (LEDs/controls can comprise 50% of the initial investment).
Aero Farms (An Industry Leader) vs. SolvLED South Bend
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Type Cost AnnualOutput Jobs at
Capacity
Est annual
Revenue
Aero –
212 in NJ
Vertical Farm $30Mil Up to 2 Mil lbs of produce Around 70 $5Mil*
SolvLED –
1408 in SB
Aquaponics $8Mil 1.2 Mil lbs of Produce +
135k lbs of Fish
Around 70 $11Mil+

6. Other advantages vs. the competition
SolvLED Growing Beds
• Maximize use of floor space, getting close to
competitor densities
• Require minimal 12-14’ of height vs 40’+,
allowing use of many more surplus industrial
buildings
• Minimal manufacturing cost
• Low cost construction and fast implementation
Aero Farms (typical in other vertical farms)
• Requires expensive secondary systems (e.g.
HVAC,Transformers, etc)
• Requires complex harvesting
• Requires use of lifts
• Requires more specialized labor
• High manufacturing cost
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7. Why Local? Current Practices and Nutrient Loss
• In addition to food security for different
regions, nutrient density is imperative to
turn around health in all countries.
• The US has a mass farming market that
relies on distribution networks that can
cross thousands of miles in refrigerated
diesel trucks.
• Timeliness of harvest, and time to table
cause significant losses in nutrients
through respiration and enzymatic
degradation and several crops harvested
early can not fully achieve their nutrient
density (in cases like tomatoes and other
crops that ripen in transport and
distribution processes).
• Bottom line: Complex distribution has
caused practices that decrease nutrient
density in foods we once relied on for
health that used to be grown local.
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Harvested,
Washed,
Packed and
Refrigerated
Refrigerated
Transport to
Distribution
Centers
Refrigerated,
Sorted and
Loaded to
Local Stores
Refrigerated
and then
stocked to
shelves
Time to Table
approximately
2-3 weeks. Typical path
harvest to table
our leafy greens

8. Food for thought?
• November – March 90% of the leafy greens in
the US are supplied fromYuma CountyArizona.
• 2018 another multistate outbreak of e coli
reached from California to New Hampshire
with cases in 15 states andWashington DC*.
• Leafy greens are ideal for colder environments
and when they get too hot they become bitter.
• Microgreens, like the kind grown in our system,
are packed with nutrients and some 40x more
than grocery leafy greens, while still providing
more appealing taste and texture.
• In short, our program provides longer shelf life
of nutrient dense greens that can be significant
contributors to nutrient consumption while
protecting consumers from current problems
of the 21st century primary food supply chain
and eliminating waste of resources.
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9. The bad news is that we’re extremely wasteful. The positive side
is that we can have a real role to play here, and we can effect
change. If we reduce food waste in our homes, we’ll have a
significant impact.” – Jonathon Bloom, food waste activist,
quoted in the
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Food is the single largest input to municipal landfills, making up 20% of
total volume, estimated at 133 billion pounds annually.
Food breaks down in landfills to Methane, a greenhouse gas 21 more times
powerful that Carbon Dioxide (CO²). Making food waste as one of the
most ignored climate change issues.
Diverting 30% of food wasted in the US would be enough to feed 100% of
America’s food insecure.

10. A Primer on SolvLED
and Our Fully
Automated Aquaponics
System…
and why 1408 Elwood in South Bend, Indiana?

11. Our Founders/Principles
Barton A. Katz: Co-Founder & CEO
Mr. Katz brings 34 years of development and
operating experience in the semiconductor
manufacturing and capital equipment industry
to SolvLED. He was a co-founder, technical
member, ManagementTeam Member andVP
of New Product Introductions for the global
semiconductor company ASML.
Headquartered in the Netherlands he has
been colleagues with his co-founder for 30+
years. He also served asVP of Commercial
Operations at Litel Instruments. He developed
domestic and international operations for
both Litel and ASML.
https://www.asml.com/
Dr. Chris Werkhoven: Co-Founder & CTO
Born and raised in Amsterdam, the Netherlands,
Dr. Werkhoven’s completed a PhD in Physical
Chemistry in 1974 at the University of
Amsterdam. Dr.Werkhoven is retired from
Philips Research Laboratories (Headquarters),
Eindhoven, the Netherlands, as a researcher in
the field of III-V materials for use in LEDs and
lasers for the opto-electronics industry. Dr.
Werkhoven has developed solid state lighting
and power devices using GaN-based materials,
developing new materials and manufacturing
technologies for those markets.
https://www.philips.com/a-
w/research/locations/eindhoven.html
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12. • Suited a wide bandwidth of indoor
and greenhouse applications
• Novel LED lighting and control
system designed by its founders.
• Proprietary lighting and software IP.
• Automated, turn-key “Indoor farms”
• SolvLED’s “Customized
Programming” maximizes production
and lowers operational cost.
• SolvLED’s “Just-in-Time” (JIT)
operation reduces refrigerated
transport and storage.
• SolvLED’s technology provides
healthy, fully-grown produce and fruit
at minimum carbon footprint.
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13. Current Production Partner of StVincent DePaul
(Catholic Charities)
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• Aquaponic greenhouse on the grounds of the St.
Vincent de Paul (SVdP) co-located with the Rob &
Melani Walton Urban Farm, POC for SVdP.
• Supplies SVdP kitchens for the homeless in the
Phoenix area and 300 local, commercial retailers
production of lettuce, herbs, and microgreens, along
with fresh tilapia.
• Expansion to other SVdP locations nationwide with
greenhouse & indoor warehouse operations.

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• Our modular growing areas can be
further expanded and contracted by
each SolvLED Farm Unit (SFU) which
provides about 2,160ft2 of growing
area.
SolvLED’s Aquaponics Modules:
Scalable to any Industrial Facility with Unused Space
• Each SFU can produce approximately 23,400 lbs of fresh
produce and 2,600 lbs of fresh fish each year.

15. Why South Bend &Why this Site?
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• Already a Causeative™ project site – selected in 2014 for being a hub of negative activity and a
primary driver of poverty and criminal activity, now the site is repositioned to become an social,
environmental and economic catalyst for the center of the City’s population.
• Existing Relationships – Owner, Notre Dame, SaintVincent DePaul,Other Industry in the Area.
• Existing Infrastructure –The site boasts over 15 Million in infrastructure ready to be repositioned.
• DemonstrationCapabilities – Easy demonstration of the scalability of our SFU modules over 5
existing buildings that can be retrofitted and rehabilitated for a fraction of building new.Two
artesian wells on property and over $15million of existing site improvements.
• Academia – Connecting with future entrepreneurs out of Notre Dame, the College of
Sustainability and other programs at Holy Cross and St. Mary’s as well as programs at Purdue.
• Market – Extensive tourism/visitor base driven by Catholic Universities,SVdP campus.
• Immediate start on a affordable scale, paid for by production revenues.
• A POC for the region –The remaining buildings are typical for the “Rust Belt” providing a POC for
the rest of the region to show how latent assets can reignite local economies.

16. Initial Site Use
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• Out of the existing 14+ acres our initial rollout will
only encompass the remaining buildings built of steel
or brick.
• Buildings will be retrofitted for use, allowing
maximization of the latent assets.
The remainder of the site may be used in the future but
for now the plan is to grade it clean and work with the
primary structural assets existing.

17. Usage Plan for Buildings 1-5
(existing steel/masonry buildings)
Building 1: 15,876ft2 of gross area/2,160ft2 of growing
area = 7.35 farm units/floor
Total Building 1 output:
23,400lbs produce/farm unit/year = 163,800lbs of produce/year
2,600lbs of fish/farm unit/year = 18,200lbs of fish/year
Building 2: 10,500ft2 of gross area/2,160ft2 of growing
area = 4.861 farm units
Total Building 2 output:
93,600lbs of produce/year
10,400lbs of fish/year
Building 3: 70,000ft2 of gross area/2,160ft2 of growing
area = 32.41 farm units
Total Building 3 output:
702,000lbs of produce/year
78,000lbs of fish/year
Building 4: 9,000ft2 of gross area/2,160ft2 of growing
area = 4.167 farm units
Total Building 4 output:
93,600lbs of produce/year
10,400lbs of fish/year
Building 5: 16,000ft2 of gross area/2,160ft2 of
growing area = 7.407 farm units
Total Building 5 output:
163,800lbs of produce/year
18,200lbs of fish/year
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18. Summary
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• SolvLED and Causeative™ are committed to developing and operating a local, sustainable, indoor
food production facility at Rockne IndustrialCenter (Formerly known as the Muessel or Drewry’s
Brewery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muessel-Drewry_Brewery).
• Our plan will ensure the adaptive re-use and upgrading of existing facilities, as well as,
employment in an environmental friendly and future proof industry that can provide a model for
other “Rust Belt” communities on how economic and social well being can be restored.
• Fresh vegetables and fish do fill a gap in the local crop portfolio and can become a profitable
export item as well.
• Local, sustainably-grown produce and fish to South Bend area throughout the year is a great
benefit to citizens, restaurants and retailers.
• Opportunity for employment of high-tech personnel, as well as, internships to students from
Indiana academic institutions that engage academia in the South BendCommunity.
• Numerous desirable working class employment opportunities for the local labor force.
Questions?