By Steve R McArthur, Partner, Founder & CTO of Pontus Water Lentils | February 26, 2020

Both, actually!

Not long ago, nor very far away, my Company, Vancouver-based Green Oasis Foods developed the CEVAS™ (Closed Environment Vertical Aquaponics System); arguably the most advanced soil-less organic growth system developed to date. Our main consideration was to build a closed-loop Aquaponics system that ensured there was no way for contaminants to enter the growth chain. The resulting efficiency and product quality as a result are quite startling, almost like having a built-in anti-malware program for crop growth.

Good Things Come in Threes

All ’ponic’ grow systems have unique benefits and challenges. Still all markedly increase yields and, to varying degrees, lowers the use of power and water. Each also can be set up to be custom complementary systems. Green Oasis’ CEVAS™ is a hybrid aquaponics system currently being used by Green Oasis and Pontus Water Lentils, the latter owning an exclusive worldwide license to the technology. 

Full disclosure, I am also CTO of Pontus Water Lentils. Ultimately, through an agreement with Amwolf, Pontus plans to obtain a public listing in approximately Q2/2020.

Before that, we plan to crowdfund through FrontFundr for $1.5 million and a like amount in a sponsored Private Placement. We plan to use the initial funds to build a 10,000 square foot grow facility. It might be useful to define the main types of soil-less grow systems.

Let’s Translate the Main Types of ‘Ponic’s

Aquaponics: A symbiotic relationship with the system; housing fish producing waste to provide crop nutrients

Hydroponics: Continuous water system, but nutrients are added to the growth media that replaces soil

Aeroponics: is a variation of hydroponics, but instead of using a grow bed filled with media, the plants are instead suspended, with roots facing a sprinkler system connected to the main nutrient reservoir.

The difference between a standard Aquaponics system and CEVAS™ is analogous to a Prius versus a Tesla, with the latter having a much more efficient with less impact on the environment. We decided it made sense to start with Water Lentils as the first crop as its grow characteristics and high market price are very attractive. 

We are Reinventing Agriculture™

I sincerely believe that our system brings a fundamental and profound change to growing soil-less crops successfully and in greater numbers than other methods. Here are some key points:

CEVAS™

• A combination of the best of both Hydro- and Aquaponics

• Completely closed-loop system customized by Green Oasis

• Utilizes state of the art, data-driven analytics

• Optimize machine learning and artificial intelligence to produce superior and consistent crops

• Uses 5% of the water of traditional agriculture

• CO2 captured and recycled

• Symbiotic air exchange

• Bio Security systems to remove all possible contaminants from any human interaction

• Solids filtration

• Biodigestion; fish waste turned into plant nutrient through aerobic digestion

The Pontus Water Lentils farming practice was created in Vancouver Canada and is licensed Worldwide

For more information visit: https://pontuswaterlentils.com/