My 6-year-old daughter saved up money from selling eggs and cucumbers at the farmer’s market. She wanted sheep and adjust enough to buy two ewes, a ram, and a round bale of hay. I don’t think she realized, but I’ve been getting ready for them for 2 years. I cleared old trees, panted hedges of fodder trees, and rows of comfrey and jerusalem artichoke (they eat the greens) for reliable feed. Now, we have a nice little micro-climate for raising sheep in our backyard and it looks like we’ll have lambs in the spring. If you’re interested in learning about permaculture sheep, I’m making some videos about it starting with this one. https://youtu.be/bCbgOtb3_iw
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Being in the agarwood investment business. It seems possible to me to buy up and estate with ready trees – at price “x”, inoculate and eventually flip the harvest after a few years of waiting for 4 years at around “1.175x”..
That return is tad low for agarwood investments at competitors offering 6~11%+ per annum.. However, imagine flipping the whole thing on it’s head?
Imagine buying up an agarwood estate, flipping the harvest around for a low margin.. And then permaculturing the estate with multiple layers. As per practices described by Wes Jackson (perennial polyculture). That way.. It’s turning into a carbon sink.. If 1/2 of the estate is intercropped with agarwood to give the carbon credits company something back after 15 years of investment into the project..
Wouldn’t a 4.375% return for the first 4 years (initial monoculture harvest) + 7 years of waiting (tree growth) + 3 years acting time (inoculant) + 1 year harvest and eventual sale time (all while having just half the trees as before.. Meaning half the harvest – approx same cost – explained in NOTE – below) I’d put the number at >2.18% RoI average over 15 years be a solid investment for a carbon capture service provider? I mean.. When they replant jungles in the Amazon/Borneo or wherever they do business, there’s no guarantee that it’ll ever remain that way. And they make nothing out of it.
Here it’s protected farm.. It’s not using harmful pesticides, insecticides or anything of the sort.. It’s increasing the food security of countries where agarwood can grow.. And, finally.. It’s actually capturing carbon. And.. After 15 years that farm is pretty much independent and capable of giving a VERY low RoI to the company that sold the credits. It’s essentially a man-made forest at that point.. What’s more is that in all this.. CARBON IS BEING CAPTURED AND PERMACULTURE IS BEING PROMOTED IN THESE COUNTRIES..
I’m looking to pitch this idea to carbon capture companies.. Please critique my idea. Tell me the flaws and reasons as to why it wouldn’t work.
NOTE: If it costs USD 160 to buy a ready tree from an agarwood plantation and USD 40 to inoculate and process it.. Total USD 200. Harvest can be sold, 1 kilo of agarwood @ USD 235 in the Singapore/HK market.. It costs exactly the same to buy a plantlet, fertilize it for 4-7 years, inoculate it and finally process and sell the end product.. And, you can double that cost USD 85 * 2 = USD 170.. Because it would take the same amount of time to grow perennial native trees and they’d not be worth their value and then some after the first harvest but would require the same effort/cost – maybe a little lesser.. But let’s err on the side of caution.
If you think this idea is good.. Do help me find and pitch the concept to carbon capture companies 🙂
Being in the agarwood investment business. It seems possible to me to buy up and estate with ready trees – at price “x”, inoculate and eventually flip the harvest after a few years of waiting for 4 years at around “1.175x”..
That return is tad low for agarwood investments at competitors offering 6~11%+ per annum.. However, imagine flipping the whole thing on it’s head?
Imagine buying up an agarwood estate, flipping the harvest around for a low margin.. And then permaculturing the estate with multiple layers. As per practices described by Wes Jackson (perennial polyculture). That way.. It’s turning into a carbon sink.. If 1/2 of the estate is intercropped with agarwood to give the carbon credits company something back after 15 years of investment into the project..
Wouldn’t a 4.375% return for the first 4 years (initial monoculture harvest) + 7 years of waiting (tree growth) + 3 years acting time (inoculant) + 1 year harvest and eventual sale time (all while having just half the trees as before.. Meaning half the harvest – approx same cost – explained in NOTE – below) I’d put the number at >2.18% RoI average over 15 years be a solid investment for a carbon capture service provider? I mean.. When they replant jungles in the Amazon/Borneo or wherever they do business, there’s no guarantee that it’ll ever remain that way. And they make nothing out of it.
Here it’s protected farm.. It’s not using harmful pesticides, insecticides or anything of the sort.. It’s increasing the food security of countries where agarwood can grow.. And, finally.. It’s actually capturing carbon. And.. After 15 years that farm is pretty much independent and capable of giving a VERY low RoI to the company that sold the credits. It’s essentially a man-made forest at that point.. What’s more is that in all this.. CARBON IS BEING CAPTURED AND PERMACULTURE IS BEING PROMOTED IN THESE COUNTRIES..
I’m looking to pitch this idea to carbon capture companies.. Please critique my idea. Tell me the flaws and reasons as to why it wouldn’t work.
NOTE: If it costs USD 160 to buy a ready tree from an agarwood plantation and USD 40 to inoculate and process it.. Total USD 200. Harvest can be sold, 1 kilo of agarwood @ USD 235 in the Singapore/HK market.. It costs exactly the same to buy a plantlet, fertilize it for 4-7 years, inoculate it and finally process and sell the end product.. And, you can double that cost USD 85 * 2 = USD 170.. Because it would take the same amount of time to grow perennial native trees and they’d not be worth their value and then some after the first harvest but would require the same effort/cost – maybe a little lesser.. But let’s err on the side of caution.
If you think this idea is good.. Do help me find and pitch the concept to carbon capture companies 🙂
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January 13, 2025 – Cargill (EWOS) Canada became the first ASC certified feed company in Canada. Their feed mill, operating out of Surrey, British Columbia, produces feed for a variety of species, including trout, salmon, seabass, seabream and meagre, seriola, cobia and tilapia. Cargill Canada’s ASC feed certification is a key step forward for the supply of responsible feed to farms across North America and the Pacific Rim.
Feed being distributed at an ASC certified trout farm in North America
Mowi Feed has also achieved ASC feed certification for both its facilities in Scotland and Norway. Operating our of Kyleakin on the east coast of the Isle of Skye, Scotland, and Valsneset in central-western Norway, respectively, their state-of-the-art feed mills produce feed for salmon. Both ASC feed certifications for Mowi Feed reflect further progress for responsible salmon farming in the UK and Norway.
ASC drives farmed seafood transformation by leveraging expertise, fostering innovation and partnering with the supply chain to amplify impact. These recent certifications, alongside all other certifications and commitments achieved since the launch of the ASC Feed Standard, play a pivotal role in this mission of transforming the industry towards greater environmental and social responsibility.
There are now 16 Units of Certification in the ASC Feed programme (comprising 22 individual certified feed mill sites) across numerous countries including Canada, Chile, Ecuador, Honduras, Mexico, Norway, Thailand, Vietnam and the UK, displaying the strong global uptake of the ASC feed certification programme.
A diverse mix of multinational and regional companies have achieved ASC Feed certification showing that complying with its robust requirements is accessible and achievable. With numerous further feed companies in the initial audit phase, 2025 is already shaping up to be another strong year of ASC Feed Certification uptake.
ASC certified farms have until October 31, 2025, to ensure their feed supply is ASC-conforming – in other words, feed produced by mills that are certified against the ASC Feed Standard. The use of ASC-conforming feed is necessary for ASC certified farms to continue meeting the ASC Farm Standard and retain their certification.
