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Invited to Sprout Agritech
In exciting news, we have been invited to join the Sprout Agritech accelerator. This will help us work out how to commercialise our product and scale it.
Callaghan offers Arohia Seed grant
Callaghan have accepted Fleecegrow for the Arohia Trailblazer seed grant. This will allow us the consistency for our first commercial trial and build our business case for scaling.
Additionally some of the engineering team are going to help us tame some of our wild ideas into practical production.
Trial begins with Turners & Grower
In September our first trial with Turners and Grower commenced with two product prototypes. This will be a 15 month journey, with 9 months till first fruit and 12 months to end of season. We are doing a second trial in December with a revised product with higher density. This should show how well the product holds its structure over time and the health of the plants. We've already learned alot with roots taking immediately and plants faring better in one prototype. We'll use this to create the third prototype for the December planting.
Fleecegrow wins Agmardt grant
The Sprout Agritech accelerator programme was interrupted for a short celebration when Agmardt approved our grant application. This means our funding match to the Callaghan grant is met and we can focus on our trials, engineering design and market research ready to meet the market next year.
Trial commencing with strawberry runners
This week our next trial has commenced with 26 Seasons, as they experiment with propogation options. 26 Seasons is a vertical strawberry farm in Foxton with approximately 50000 plants. We're excited to see how our media works with the runner cuttings in the hydroponic systems.
Patent filed for Fleecegrow process
You may have noticed that our website doesn't have any pictures of our prototypes. That's because we need to wait until our patent is filed and the initial search complete (about 8 weeks later). Our patent was finally completed and filed on the 1st Feb so we look forward to sharing pics of what we've been doing by the end of March!
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