1. Form Adam Foster RSI Green Energy Network
Date: 6/27/2013
I would like to introduce myself to you, My name is Adam Foster, I am co-owner of RSI Green
Energy Network and Food Oasis Urban Farmers, but am also a Certified Clinical Hemodialysis
Technician (CCHT) for an international Dialysis Network Provider, In my travels I have grown
food for me and my family last November my daughter and I visited your farm in Milwaukee
WI.. I’ve experimented with different configurations of hydroponics and aquaponics, studied
aquaponics in Hawaii on the Big Island 35 miles from Hilo. Currently my wife and I live in
Calumet City (I am born and raised in Chicago South Shore area 35yrs), we have a garden lab in
our backyard. Working in the medical field for twenty years from coast to coast (dialysis for
seventeen years), I have seen diabetes and hypertension act as the number one and two causes of
kidney failure. Two preventable, or at least reversible and manageable diseases to have. Both
illness with the proper diet can be controlled and in some cases reversed. Written in any health
food books. Eating fresh produce is the number one recommended change to make toward
healthy living to prevent food related illnesses such as hypertension and diabetes. RSI Green
Energy Network is introducing a Community base plan to increase produce output and
consumption while cutting transportation cost to market. Reducing carbon footprint, educating,
and creating jobs in the science of urban agriculture as inspectors, processers, sales reps and
water treatment . This initiative is for your consideration my contact number is 312-659-6620
my Facebook RSI Green Energy Network, RSI Network Magazine this information is time
sensitive please contact me within 30 days from when you receive this packet.
Respectfully,
Adam Foster CCHT
Owner/Urban farmer
RSI Green Energy Network Magazine
rsigreenernergynetwork.com
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2. Genesis Urban Farm Project
RSI GREEN ENERGY NETWORK is seeking funding for a self-sustainability urban farming
project called “Project Genesis.”
Project Genesis will allow us to address some of the problems facing urban, low-income areas
such as: food deserts ( a food desert is a urban or rural location that it’s community don’t have
the access to affordable produce with in one mile of their place of residents. Obesity,
hypertension, and diabetes are common in food deserts in urban areas, We will offer access to
fresh, low-cost produce and clean energy, will be the focus of Project Genesis.
Access to fresh produce can be expensive and sometimes difficult to find for people living in
urban or rural, and sometime low-income areas where stores and farmer’s markets that carrying
these items can be over a mile away. However, even if it’s next door it’s often cheaper to buy
food in a box or can or even at fast food from restaurants (i.e., “dollar menu”). Such easy access
to fast food, this fast food has helped to produce a generation where obesity, hypertension and
diabetes have dominated our culture and crippled the healthcare system. As a direct result of
poor nutrition, amputations, blindness, and kidney failure have increased in communities where
there are limited affordable, fresh options. To further illustrate this point, you need look no
further than the local elementary school. Many school districts find it easier to serve junk food
rather than fruits and veggies. This is due, in part, to waste and the cost of these foods. Project
Genesis was created to help address these problems. The Genesis Project uses a not so new, but
innovative, approach to the low-income, urban problems of poor nutrition and a lack of adequate
nutrition education by introducing a series of self-sustainable projects. This project will enable
individuals, families, community group and church groups, as well as school districts, receive
educational and financial support to turn unused and under used property into urban farming
communities. This will bring better quality food, nutrition education, and commerce to these
communities. I introduce to you Food Oasis Urban Farms.
General Description
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3. Butler A. Foster of RSI Green Energy Network and Edward Nance of Exclusive Referral and it’s
partners have teamed up to deliver the Food Oasis Urban Farms which allows you to produce
lots of fish and produce for you and your family. The Food Oasis Urban Farms also offer
educational, training and commercial opportunities in the production of fresh produce in urban
farming. The system combines vertical and traditional hydroponics and fish farming technology
for an urban setting. Each Food Oasis Urban Farm system is custom built for your space and
environment. With our system, you can supplement your food source while optionally providing
a source of income. This can be done by expanding into a commercial system for your
community providing jobs and healthier food sources.
Grow many different food groups
Many people ask, what can I grow with these systems? Fruit producing plants and lettuce are the
baseline for production and yields. Our green energy Aquaponics Gardens grow a variety of
vegetables and can grow as many fish as your area can hold. You can also grow strawberries,
eggplant, beans, squash, tomatoes, and much more. We have designed a vertical garden called
the Space Saver Hydroponic Garden. This garden will work well where space is limited (small
balconies or patios) using vertical space to maximize yields. Our RSI Green Energy Network lab
has done all the work for you. No need to guess how to grow in hydroponics; we will give all the
information you need. We have grown most vegetables in this system and raised tilapia and
catfish, you can raise perch, shrimp and many more fish. You will benefit from our success and
knowledge. Through science, experience, and very hard work, we have made growing your own
food affordable which is important for you and your family’s food bill.
Space Saver Vertical Systems
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4. The Space Saver Hydroponic S+ystem is a nutrient film technique (NTF) that allows you to
grow vertically. This can be very useful for apartment or condo living with balconies or patios.
The system comes with 24 or 48 individual pots per set-up which can be used with or without a
trellis; perfect for situations where space is limited. Some of the produce you can grow with this
systems include: bok choi, lettuce, beans, and cucumbers, as well as fresh herbs like basil,
thyme, and parsley. Your meals will taste fresher when they come from your garden; an added
benefit, using fresh herbs to season food will allow you to cut down on salt intake.
Deep Water Culture Urban Farms
- Crimson Class
This modular system is interchangeable. Starting with one grow bed raft or fill and drain
system and two space saver gardens, you can manage a production of 100 pounds of fish and
62 individual plants that can yield a variety of fruit and vegetables; enough to give to family
and friends. When growing leafy produce there’s no need to take the whole thing just take
what you need and it will regenerate to give you more for later. The system that keep on
giving.
- Majestic Class
This food production system is great for schools. There are three grow beds (4’ x 6’) and two
Space Saver hydroponic Gardens. This system comes with enough grow production to
produce several pounds of food per month, hold 120 plants, and 200 pounds of fish of your
choice.
- Emerald Class
This food production system is our commercial system holding/producing 1000 to 4000 head
of lettuce per month. This system is a deep water system and will produce 1000 to 4000
pounds of fish the first year. This income producing system requires 3,000 to 5,000 square
feet of space.
Rationale
Systems Space saver aquaponics systems crimson class system majestic class system
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5. Lettuce production/month 24- 62 pots 62-500 heads of lettuce 500-1000
Fish 50lb 100lb 200lb
Impact on environment 2’x5’x4/ 2x 8x10’ 20’x20’ 20’x50’
Energy requirements 1000w 2000watts 3000watts
*Water footprint 50gal month 200 gals/month 400gal/month
Base price $ 300.00/ 500.00 $2,500 $3,500
Labor 14hrs/wk 21hr/wk 35hr/wk
Note: water consumption may vary depending on the evaporation rate, number of plants and
environmental temperature (indoor or outdoor) but our systems generally use 85% less water
than conventional farm techniques or container gardening.
Recommendations:
A greenhouse should be used to protect plants from pest and environmental conditions such as
extreme heat or cold. Greenhouses are priced according to size and material such as plastic,
glass, wood, or pvc. Solar panels can be used to cut power consumption cost from 1000 kilowatts
to 5000 kilowatts per year and 10,000 per year for commercial systems. Wind turbines can be
used for power generation to supplement power consumption as well. Our systems will also have
a bee hive for honey production bees wax and pollination to increase yields where fruits are
being produced, such as tomatoes, eggplant, cucumbers, squash, peppers, and others.
Impact on the community
These systems will reduce the carbon foot print, as well as reduce the transportation costs
associated with delivering fresh produce to market which, in turn, reduces the price and allows
us to stay competitive in the surrounding markets. Working with church and community groups
we will help to build and maintain community-based hydro/aqua commercial farms capable of
feeding large numbers of people with the yields being sold to schools, restaurants, and farmer
markets. These systems will be built at a central location which will produce jobs and awareness
of urban agriculture. A community will be built around urban agriculture through processing,
packaging, sales and marketing and distribution.
Target Market
Church groups
Church groups are the pillars and the hub of the community, not only providing guidance but
also in organizing and getting the word out about developing projects in the community. We will
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6. start our education and outreach there by organizing community gardens, developing farmers
markets, offering seed banks, and training bee keepers.
Schools
Elementary, middle, and high schools are great places to start to help change eating habits and
introduce a new way of getting fresh food to their community. It will be a challenge changing the
minds and eating habits of children but tackling the problems of obesity and childhood diabetes
is of primary importance in low-income communities. The first step will be to propose a school
garden on site at each school in the district. This will give them their own hydroponic/aquaponics
lab and kitchen cooking class with cook books. This will allow the students to have hands-on
experience in creating and maintain an urban garden .if school budgets cannot accommodate a
project such as this we will look to an online fund raising platform called kickstart and indagogo
to raise money for this project, also our Food Oasis Farms team will be available to assist, as
needed, for training, and most importantly, to help present healthier eating habits to these
children.
Community Groups
Community gardens have proven to be a great way to bring people together and, across the
country, have produced tons of food for urban farmers. First Lady, Michelle Obama, is a big
supporter of the community garden and has written a book entitled, “American Grow,” on the
subject. With her interviews and appearances her goal has been healthy eating for our
community .We share that goal and will work with community groups to build and maintain
these gardens through training programs that will teach children and families to be successful
urban farmers and gardeners. Remember, Urban farms can be grown almost anywhere including:
roof top gardens, un-used and under used property, and indoors, and they can garden grow all
year round.
Green jobs
Bringing jobs to the community is another goal of the project and this aligns with the goal of the
administration of President Obama in terms of green energy jobs. As a result we are encouraged
and determined, RSI Green Energy Network is bringing education, independence, and options to
communities that have been hardest hit by the economic downturn, suffering low economic
growth, high unemployment, and limited food choices. RSI Green Energy Network will bring
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7. jobs in urban farming, such as harvesters, food processers, office and logistics managers,
urban farmers, sales team, assembly of Food Oasis urban Farms, low tech power stations
such as solar systems, to make Oasis Urban Farms totally self-sustaining, and quality
control inspectors.
. The project goal for the first year is to have Food Oasis Urban farms in Calumet City 60409 and
Chicago zip codes 60617, 60649, 60620, 60653, and 60615. Later, within one to two years,
markets such Hillcrest, Crestwood, Dalton and Alsip urban areas will be targeted.
Marketing Strategy
We will start by marketing and promoting our urban farm systems to schools and churches using
an introduction by mail and setting up an in-person meeting. The presentation will consist of the
already proven Space Saver hydroponics, aquaponics, and deep water systems. Press releases
will go out to all the major local networks. Marketing to residential home owners, your self-
sustaining, food producing systems, will reach over 100,000 residential and business customers
that will be endusers of your, food producing systems, on the south side of Chicago and suburbs
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8. Food Oasis Urban Farms Marketing Strategy
Our Food Oasis Urban Farms are the backbone and center piece of RSI Green Energy Network.
From the garden to the kitchen RSI Green Energy Network has developed a garden for all
situations and spaces. From our Space Saver Systems to our full blown commercial money
producing systems, we are bringing urban farming to food deserts, churches, community groups,
and individual residents in the community. We will be part of the effort to teach our neighbors to
fish and farm so they can eat and feed their family healthy food. As mission of RSI Green
Energy Network helping to reduce childhood obesity, diabetes, hypertension.
Start –up Phases
RSI Green Energy Network and its partners will operate in a centralized matter. Each Food Oasis
Urban Farm will operate from its first commercial urban farm and will have between 3000 and
4000 heads of lettuce and other produce per month. The education curriculum will be designed to
be tailored to the needs of the area we serve. There will be health education on diabetes,
hypertension and the causes of obesity, as well as garden to the kitchen cooking recipes for kids
using the harvest from their garden. All curriculum will be tailored to the specific audience, and
of course, age appropriate. A local headquarters and quality control for any and all produce
grown with our food systems. To keep a high standard of food production for commercial sale to
restaurants and grocery stores in the community. The following is the phased approach to start up
the Genesis Project:
Phase 1 Home Sweet Home
Step 1 - We will have a place for fabrication and storage of materials for food oasis urban farms and solar
panel construction. Property that is located within one mile of two high schools and three elementary
schools and several churches.
Step 2 - Introduce share cropping to the residential community on roof tops, backyards to promote space
saver hydroponic system, also to aquire and use under used and unused abandoned land in the inner city.
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9. Phase 2 Marketing
Step 1 Meeting with churches and community groups, to introduce share cropping, the Seed Bank and
beekeeping in churches using our Food Oasis Urban Farm food systems. This will help them supplement
their food source and act as a center for storing seeds and caring for bee hives for our Food Oasis Urban
Farms to help pollenate plants in our gardens around the city.
Step 2 - Press release to all major networks and radio with an acknowledgement of sponsors of the
project. Big promotions for our sponsors.
Step 3 - Contact schools to introduce schools programs associated with Food Oasis Urban Farms to build
Food Oasis Urban Farms on school property.
Step 4 - Hire staff and volunteers to work Food Oasis urban Farm sites
Step 5 - Create curriculum for churches, school cooking labs and community groups in the areas of urban
farming, health, running a business, creating farmers markets, and the sale and trade of fresh produce at
farmers markets.
Phase 3 Food Oasis Urban Farms ( on going)
Step 1 - Order of material for RSI Green Energy Network Food Oasis Urban Farms,
Step 2 - Storage and assembly of solar cells parts into panels
Step 3 - Build Food Oasis Urban Farms in back yards, on school yards, at Churches, and on vacant lots.
Daily Operations
How is our food grown?
STAGE 1
Food is grown by a process called Hydroponics. Hydroponics is a process by which plants are
grown without soil and sometimes in water, which is called a raft system. Hydroton, or gravel
are used as a growing medium. Water and nutrients are held for a short time and absorbed by the
plants, while oxygen is maximized by the roots giving the plants the best circumstance for
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10. bigger, better and faster growth. The drawback to hydroponics is that water and nutrient are not
held for long. So a continuous stream of water is fed to the plants in a closed loop system. This
allows for water to be re-circulated and nutrients to be reused which allows for 85% less used to
water plants. This is less than conventional farming and gardening techniques, when soil is used.
Hydroponics also has limited exposure to pest although there are some pest that can appear, they
can be better managed in a hydroponic system which uses no pesticides. An indoor garden has a
more controlled environment and can grow all year round.
Using organic nutrients through Fish farming
STAGE 2
Fish farming is a process of raising and farming fish in a controlled environment. Fish farming is
a great way of producing edible fish and provides a food source for end-user consumption.
Perch, catfish, tilapia, are a few of the fish used in fish farming. The fish we choose will depend
on the population we serve and the request of the customer. Fish are bought as fingerlings and
raised to full maturity. The process takes eight months to a year to mature to approximately 1½
pounds 4/ 600 gallon fish pond, will be built. The fish will be feed worms and duck weed fully
organic.
Hydroponics +Fish farming =Aquaponics
STAGE 3
Aquaponics is a symbiotic relationship between fish farming and hydroponics. Created to
provide a complete food source system that is organic in nature and is a natural process, the
organic waste produced by the fish is routed to the plants. The plant has a natural bacteria that
converts the fish waste to be absorb and used by the plants as nutrients. This process removes the
organic waste from the water and returns the water with oxygen to the fish. In a closed loop
system this cycle is repeated automatically. This process is called symbiosis, which is
aquaponics
The first three stages are combined and happen almost simultaneously joined together when built
and initiated. The plants are added to the system. There are day to day routines that happen on
your way to full harvest:
STAGE 4
Observation and maintenance
A system with less than 500 plants will require detailed observation on the plant , plant leaves for
pest, over or under fertilization, water temp and water levels, fish health, if there is any fruit
daily inspection. (2hrs a day after installation). A system with 1000 or more plants, considered a
commercial system, requires more time a day to do the above up keepers takes 5HR A DAY
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11. details inspection of the plants, or any damage that may occur due to environmental forces such
as extreme heat or cold due to temperature fluctuations, mold or not enough nutrients. In
commercial systems, workers will wear protective gowns and gloves when in the green house
and in direct contact with the plants or fish. Gloves are advised when handling the smaller
private systems as well. Our team of gardeners will be trained in clean techniques and food
handling per city and state regulation.
STAGE 5
HARVESTING
Harvesting will be done for all Food Oasis Urban Farms by qualified food handlers whether
residential or commercial, to guarantee a uniform system of food safety and food particularly for
food to be shared, bought, or sold. Food sold to restaurants and grocery stores will be of the
highest quality and comparable to, if not better than, that delivered by traditional means.
STAGE 6
PROCESSING
Processing and packaging for our customers will be of the highest standards and quality. Produce
will be washed and cleaned for food safety. Price will be effected, since the product are grown
locally and limited transportation cost some produce will be sold on site while others will be sent
to food stores, and restaurants in the area, making our produce affordable for low income
families in poor areas where buying produce can be difficult to find and expensive to buy. Food
options are important because we are serious about reducing diseases related to diet and life
style. The end user: consumer/sharecropper who will receive the highest benefit of all, a
supplemental food source right in their backyards processed, packaged and given to them for
food safety.
STAGE 7
The Market
Farmers markets, share cropping, grocery stores, restaurants, and schools are the markets we will
penetrate. Our produce will have the advantages of being high quality produce grown locally,
better pricing, providing jobs for the community, and bringing an awareness of healthy choice in
food deserts and low income communities.
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12. Summary
Butler Adam Foster of RSI Green Energy Network is seeking your help for Project Genesis. A
produce and fish production system of hydroponics, fish farming and beekeeping, gardens that
can be as little as 20 to 50 plants, and as large as 3000 to 10,000 plants for commercial systems.
these systems are self-sustaining by building Solar panels instructions to power our Food Oasis
Urban Farms. These urban farms are used to Grow produce, educate, enhanced, and promote
healthy eating habits while saving the owner of a food producing system money or earning
profit . In areas where healthy produce is either too expensive or unavailable for the local
consumer. We are using vacant lots, backyards, rooftops school grounds to plant, there are
enough space using vertical space for plentiful yields. Our target market, are church groups,
unused lots, commercial, and schools grounds setting for our farms. The demographics include
children between the ages of 3 to 17 years for our educational programs and adults young and
old to work and operate our urban gardens . We are targeting our harvest to restaurants, grocery
mom and pop stores, plus on site sales and farmer markets, that are local. We believe with this
strategy, we will not only make a difference in urban farming, RSI Green Energy Network brings
local grown hydroponic produce to wanting households . Our goal is to enable our start-phase by
July first 2013 and to start our daily operation Stages by July 1st
2013, this system is a year round
operation. Long term goal is to: eliminated Food deserts, reducing childhood obesity,
hypertension and diabetes through education access to fresh produce lowering carbon footprint
by reducing transportation distance from farm to plate and the cost for food. Help us to create our
Food Oasis Urban Farms and /or join us and be part of Food Oasis Urban Farms.
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14. Dear Pete’s Date: 6/13/2013
I would like to introduce myself to you, My name is Adam Foster, I am co-owner of RSI Green
Energy Network and Food Oasis Urban Farmers, but am also a Certified Clinical Hemodialysis
Technician (CCHT) for an international Dialysis Network Provider, In my travels I have grown
food for me and my family. Working in the medical field for twenty years from coast to coast
(dialysis for seventeen years), I have seen diabetes and hypertension act as the number one and
two causes of kidney failure. Two preventable, or at least reversible and manageable diseases to
have. Both illness with the proper diet can be controlled and in some cases reversed. In all the
journals of medicine written in any healthy food books. Eating fresh produce is the number one
recommended change to make toward health living to prevent food related illnesses such as
hypertension and diabetes. RSI Green Energy Network is introducing a Community base plan to
increase produce output and consumption while cutting transportation cost to market. Reducing
carbon footprint, educating, and creating jobs in the science of urban agriculture as inspectors,
processers, sales reps and water treatment . This prospectus is for your consideration my contact
number is 312-659-6620. Facebook RSI Green Energy Network, RSI Network Magazine this
information is time sensitive please contact me within 14 days from when you receive this
packet.
Respectfully,
Adam Foster CCHT
Owner/Urban farmer
RSI Green Energy Network Magazine
rsigreenernergynetwork.com
To: Mayor’s office
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15. My name is Adam Foster Founder of RSI green Energy Network. My wife and I are urban
farmers and are dedicated our lives to helping Chronically ill individuals. Most of the illness we
have notice are preventable and are food related, such as hypertension that can lead to stroke,
heart attack and kidney failure; diabetes which can lead to blindness, amputation, dialysis and
death. Obesity which can lead to heart disease, diabetes, diminished life expectancy,
hypertension all of this and more relates to long term illness. A drain on public and private
resources. As a response we are teaching and demonstrating to our community the importance of
growing your own food and preparing and eating fresh vegetables by building a hydroponic
laboratory on our property. Showing and teaching our neiborhood and those on social networks
including YouTube how to grow and maintain a garden and grow produce. We understand that
form the research and study of hydroponics and aquaponics in our hydroponic lab and garden,
that the community would benefit from a project that teach self-sustainability. Starting with
community gardens, cooking class, nutrition studies and farmers markets. This will bring
awareness of alternative to fast food and the decision that most low income families are face
with. That is weather to buy food out of a bag, can or box to make dinner or to buy fresh meat,
and vegetables to make dinner. You don’t have to be poor or low income, if you work 40+ hrs a
week it might be difficult to buy fresh food and the time to cook it on a daily bases. A program
such as this will give the community a choice and close access to fresh produce. What we are
asking for is permission and assistance to obtain and use underused and unused public and
private land vacant lots and abandoned buildings such as unused car lots and building which
would be used for indoor year round production of hydroponic grown produce that are protected
from environmental conditions.
These facilities can and will generate revenue by selling produce to stores, restaurants, small
grocery stores, and to the community through farmers markets and direct sales. This equals tax
dollars for your community. We need your help in make this program a reality for our
communities. Enclosed is a proposal explaining how this plan will be carried out. This plan
explains how jobs will be created, children will be educated, and a healthier community we
could have with this with what is now called Project Genesis. Thank you for your consideration
this project is time sensitive and we need a response in 28 day from date received… This
prospectus is for your consideration my contact number is 312-659-6620. Facebook RSI Green
Energy Network, RSI Network Magazine.
Respectfully,
Adam Foster CCHT Owner/Urban farmer
RSI Green Energy Network Magazine
rsigreenernergynetwork.com e-mail: jedi_xiaolin@yahoo.com
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