CA3003313A1 - Method of transforming marine slub into agricultural growth products - Google Patents

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The Beaufort Wind Force Scale is an empirical measure that relates wind speed to observed conditions at sea or on land. Mariners are all familiar with this scale and it's varying levels of gales and storms. A 'whole gale' sits at Beaufort number 10 on the scale - and has been described as an event that changes the landscape in a dramatic way, leaving it changed forever.
Our company is called Whole Gale because we are about to change the landscape of agriculture and backyard gardening in a most dramatic way. Our products will change how we simply and easily utilize organic materials that already exist naturally for sustainable agriculture that doesn't hurt the planet with harmful pesticides and chemical fertilizers.

Who are We?
. / . Damien Stratton is a fish harvester from Cape Broyle who has been ...
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=i,, ' i re , Lorna Yard is an environmental activist and media producer from Witless Bay who has been an avid supporter of environmental protection on the Southern Shore for many years. Lorna has 25 years experience in media production including technical and creative writing, marketing, design and production of print, video, and online media. As an enthusiastic hobbyist gardner Lorna has worked with Damien in testing and fine tuning the formula and application of i =
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-11! Jim Wyse comes to Whole Gale as a special consultant. Jim is a retired faculty sft,,,t4 member from Memorial University of Newfoundland's business school. He 11111111 4 currently holds two patents, one patent pending, and five registered software ; *(1=', copyrights. His forty year career in information systems includes both ilkprofessional and academic experience in a variety of related areas including isoftware development, systems analysis and design, project management, and , university teaching and research. His professional experience ranges from direct involvement in software development (in both small and large scale computing environments) to management responsibility for systems development projects and multi-functional information systems departments. He has undertaken technology transfer projects in various regions of the developing world. Jim is helping Whole Gale navigate the waters of intellectual property, patent applications, and general business management.

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Two years ago Damien Stratton was washing bait nets in fresh water to remove the slub, and some cloth material was accidentally exposed to the slub. Intrigued by the way the slimy substance dried on that cloth material in the summer sun, Damien started to experiment with different ways of treating a variety of materials with slub, desalinating and using other organic substances in the mixture, and applying it to his backyard vegetable garden then observing how it impacted the vegetables growing there.
The first test was a loose burlap treated with the slub solution, applied to half of the vegetable garden in the spring just after seeds were set. The initial results were impressive. The first noticeable benefit of slub and slub treated burlap applied to the soil was that of highly successful pest control. Snails and slugs - the most common garden pests -would not go near either material treated with slub or plants and soil treated with the slub solution. This was a major breakthrough as - our research indicates - there is not one other 100%
natural substance on the market that effectively controls garden snails and slugs. Our research also indicates this type of organism thrives in the Labrador Current and in some of the cleanest waters in the world off our coast. It is not found in all of the world's oceans and it doesn't seem to survive once the water temperature warms past what our cold waters offer.
Back in the garden, Damien also noted that the side of the vegetable patch with burlap was protected from erosion due to heavy rain, the soil did not dry out as quick, germination took place earlier than the untreated part of the garden, and birds and small animals did not disturb the seeds under the burlap.
At the end of the season - the vegetables that had been grown covered in the burlap treated with our slub solution were as healthy and yielded as much crop as the vegetables treated with regular consumer fertilizer.

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fit f ' 2 4 ,f = 4 1,14 Both Damien and Lorna are avid gardeners, environmentalists, and have separately always been conscious of gardening practices that avoid harmful chemicals and pesticides. Casual friends - Damien told Lorna about his informal experiments. It was through subsequent conversations they came to realize what a huge discovery they had on their hands, and decided to work together to evolve the product and make it available to the world as a 100%
natural and healthy way to enhance food production and gardening.
With the solid support of Sean McNeil and the Canadian Centre for Fisheries Innovation we have conducted several avenues of research and that research indicates that we are the very first company in the world to try this method of fertilizing and pest control.
Because of the lack of information about this substance we knew we needed more evidence as to exactly what we had as we developed our formula and testing methods. So in 2017 Whole Gale did it's own experiments to try and collect more data.
Three products have been tested 1. Burlap infused with the slub formula

2. Concentrated slub formula in liquid form sprayed on plants

3. Powdered slub formula worked into soil Attached to the end of this business plan is a controlled experiment conducted by Whole Gale in 2017. Over a three month period two groups of identical plants were observed, both in a greenhouse and outside. A control group of plants were treated with MiracleGro vegetable fertilizer, and the test group of plants were treated with our product.
The experimental group demonstrated the following results:
1) Increased yield in various strains of tomato and pepper plants.
2) Earlier production of blossoms in cucumber plants 3) Greener leaves in lettuce and cabbage plants

4) Our product helped in the prevention of erosion

5) Seeds germinated quicker

6) Small animals such as birds and rabbits were not able to disturb seedlings and young plants in areas treated with our product.

7) And the big one - Pest control - the plants treated with our product were not ravaged by slugs and snails as the untreated plants were.

Collection and Processing The slub we used in our trials was collected from nets that had been set in place to catch bait for the summer fishery. The nets were --not set to collect slub, it was simply a by-, ,,r v":-..,- . -7.11 = Af '4,- v product of having nets set in the ocean.
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After a few days these will be collected and dried on our premises. It will then be desalinated with fresh water, and stored in large tubs. The slub will then be combined with the 100%
natural ingredients contained in our patent pending formula, mixed in a large tumbling drum, and then packaged for sale either in bulk or consumer sized packaging.
We do not yet have accurate data as to the optimum time of year to collect slub. Sean McNeill and CCFI were successful in obtaining an experimental licence from DFO for us to do collection experiments between April and December of 2018. During this time we are experimenting with different collection apparatus and drying methods.

2017 Garden Trial In the summer of 2017, under the guidance of Sean MacNeil, Whole Gale conducted it's own garden trial to try and gain some insight into how applying the slub product in various methods would impact plants in terms of fertilizing and pest control. Sean advised us on how to set up a control group as opposed to the test group and ensuring each group were subjected to the same environmental conditions such as amount of light, temperature and wind conditions down to ensuring the same soil conditions and container size.
The layout and grouping of vegetables and plants is as shown:
Bottom Layer of Greenhouse Celery *.Purpte Cabbage Iceberg 'Cafrots Treated with Generic MiracleGro Vegetable Fertilizer as per directions on box.
ROTIlaine Lettuce Treated with Slub on same schedule/volume as commercial Squash fertilizer (MiracleGro) Romaine Lettuce Romaine Celery Purple Haze Oa, bbage Lettuce Iceberg Carrots Squash Figure 1 Second Layer of Greenhouse Tomato Tomato Peppers ,Peppers Tomato Treated with Generic MiracleGro Vegetable Fertilizer as per directions on box.
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We were careful to choose soil with no added fertilizer or components. We mixed bags of soil with some composted material and peat moss to form a good base.
It had been a unusually cold and wet spring in 2017 so we left the soil mixture to sit for a week to allow it to warm up before planting seeds. We did not add any powdered miracle grow to the soil of the control group until the seeds started to sprout, and any new plants that were added had time to acclimatize. Before the seeds were planted or the plants repotted in the test group we added 30m1 of dried slub and worked it into the soil.

1. Exterior Plot The soil was turned over and prepared to test two drills of vegetables. This plot was created on a hillside to test the effectiveness of the slub solution infused on regular burlap in helping prevent soil erosion. The seeds were planted on July 3, 2017. At that time carrot, beet, and turnip seeds were planted in each drill, as well as new cabbage plants. One of the drills was covered with burlap infused with the slub solution and the other was left uncovered.
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3) The seeds planted under the burlap germinated 2-3 days earlier on average than the seeds that were not under burlap.
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The control group were fertilized with 30 grams of Miracle Gro per 1.5 gallons of water once per week. The test group were fertilized on the exact same schedule using the same volume of slub powder dissolved in the same ratio of water - 30 grams of power per 1.5 gallons of water.
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1. Plant robustness and quality In the case of non flowering plants such as celery and lettuce there was a marked difference in those treated with the slub solution and those treated with Miracle Gro. The plants that were treated with the slub solution, while roughly the same size, were more lush and robust than the ones in the control group treated with consumer fertilizer. The test group showed a deeper and richer colouring as well.
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Soil, Plant and Feed Laboratory Newroundland Department of Fisheries and Land Resources 308 Brookfield Road, Provincial Agriculture Building Labrador P0 Box 8700, St John's NL, A1B 4J6 Telephone (709) 729-6738, Fax (709) 729-6734 COMPOST ANALYTICAL REPORT
Submitted by: Name: Lorna Yard Address: Witless Bay Tel: 691-5393 Fax:
Email: [email protected] Date Received: 17-10-19 Date Reported: 17-10-30 Analysis Lab # MC 36 Lab # Lab #
ID: marine ID ID
based compost Moisture Content (as rec'd) (%) 21.9 pH 7.4 Total Nitrogen (%) 2.07 Total Carbon (%) 18.06 C:N Ratio* 8.7 : 1 Total Phosphorous (%) 0.34 Total Potassium (%) 0.44 Total Calcium (%) 2.27 Total Magnesium (%) 0.56 Total Iron (ppm) 7670 Total Copper (ppm) 23 Total Manganese (ppm) 449 Total Zinc (ppm) 63 Total Boron (ppm) 115 Total Sodium (ppm) 13,540 Soluble Salts (mS/cm) 26.9 (Results reported on a Dry Basis) * The C:N ratio of soil is in the range of 8-10: 1. When compost amendment has a C:N ratio of greater than 30:1, there is a higher risk that the soil microorganisms will "steal" nitrogen from the soil and tie it up as they break down the carbon, which makes the N
unavailable to crop.
Tom Fagner Copy to: Xiaobin Guo, Jane White Soil, Plant and Feed Laboratory For interpretation of the COMPOST ANALYTICAL REPORT, contact Soil Fertility Specialist at 709-637-2685.

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4' The products outlined in this document are really just the beginning. At WholeGale we want to do much more than market a successful product line. We want to create meaningful, well paying jobs in rural Newfoundland and Labrador. We want to re-invest money into research and development to help people in our province, and beyond, find ways to grow sustainable, completely natural food products without poisoning the oceans and the earth.
It is our belief that everything we need is in nature, and we want to develop more ways and products of tapping into that abundance.
We want to be a company with a strong social conscience and make a global contribution to the well being of our planet and its people. This can be done in all kinds of ways from small projects like sponsoring and providing materials for small school vegetable gardens to large efforts such as fine tuning our product to maximum effectiveness so that it will replace chemical fertilizers being used now that are leeching into the oceans and killing coral reefs.
For more information or to discuss this further please contact us and we'd love to get together!