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Project Description
This campaign was closed off successfully as part of the communication and promotion of the campaign led to a new partnership with new investments coming in to the project. Thank you all for your support!!.
immici Microfarms will produce herbs, salads, vegetables, fruit and mushrooms along with Tilapia fish. Marine seafoods will also be available soon, including Shrimp, Lobster, Oysters, Clams, Sea Urchin (Uni), Sea Bass and Gilt-head Seabream. As the project matures, the diversity of products will develop. immici produce will be available directly from the Microfarm, from local area agents and from the Ta’ Qali Farmers market.
What makes immici products remarkable is that as well as being grown for exquisite flavour, they are also fully sustainable, eco-friendly and ocean-friendly. They are grown in combined eco-systems using no artificial chemical pesticides or fertilisers. Although within organic farming some chemicals are allowed, immici uses Aquaponics and Multitrophic Culture, including Dualponics, which cannot use any artificial chemicals at all, as these are harmful to fish, animals and beneficial microbiome.
immici will produce its own feed from organic waste that is fed to specialised insects which are a hygienic ingredient mixed with marine algae and other nutrients to form the basis of a healthy and sustainable food chain. Also, because we aim to pick produce only when it is ordered, waste is reduced. This is helped further because if there is any waste from the production or consumption of the products, it can be fed back into the system.
It is part of our mission to reduce food-miles and carbon footprint by supplying through local area agents serving their neighbours, reducing the distance customers need to travel for their orders.
See the FAQ for more information and definitions explaining what we do at immici.
Project FAQ
What is a Microfarm?
A Microfarm (or Micro farm) is a small, high-yield efficient farming operation that is suitable for urban and sub-urban locations and has a strong focus on sustainability and being eco-friendly.
What is Multitrophic Culture?
A system that includes multiple species at different levels of the food chain in a mutually beneficial eco-system.
What is Aquaponics?
A combination of recirculating Aquaculture and Hydroponics. The fish produce fertiliser and nutrients for the plants and the plants clean the water for the fish. These systems have their own immune systems that are supported by immici technology for healthy, high-quality products that grow more abundantly and require up to 97% less water than conventional soil agriculture.
What is Dualponics?
The founder of immici Microfarms invented a system where seafood can be raised in a high-welfare marine aquaponics system that provides nutrients for salt-intolerant plants (the conventional green groceries) as well as microscopic marine algae, seaweeds and halophytes (salt-loving plants) such as Samphire, sea fennel and other delicacies. Dualponics refers to the use of dual freshwater and saltwater circuits and is a unique technology created and owned by immici.
Can I become an immici local agent?
There are a limited number of positions available. If you can connect with your neighbours, have a vehicle and the time you will need to service your customers’ orders, then being an immici local agent can be a great way to contribute to sustainability, the environment and good nutrition in your community, as well as to earn some money. It can be part-time or full-time depending on the number of customers you have, and you can work from home. You will make a commission while still being able to provide your customers with great prices for herbs, vegetables, fruits, salads, fish and seafoods and more.
Who is behind immici Microfarms?
My name is Michael Bourne, and I am building immici Microfarms for me, my young daughter and our community. For many years I have been developing sustainable resource technologies, food sustainability being the key foundation. Energy, heating, cooling, and cooking are other key pillars of sustainability that I have addressed. With a background in science and engineering I am largely autodidactic. Bringing together a wide range of subjects to solve inventive problems requires flexible thinking and necessitates in-depth knowledge in a wide range of areas from electronics to microbiology, physics to water chemistry, plant and animal husbandry to plumbing. My former work experience included building services engineering, nuclear and asbestos health and safety internationally, and various family businesses in early life growing and exporting cold and warm water ornamental fish and supplying fresh-chilled seafoods to some of the world's best Chefs in Hong Kong.
