Food Security Technology


We are passionate about solving the hunger crisis!



Calories are going to become the new world Currency for all nations because no matter what ethnicity, whether nations are wealthy or poor, all people need to consume calories daily regardless.


The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations have calculated an average hypothetical "Minimum Dietary Energy Requirement" (MDER) at 1,680 kilo-calories per person per day.



WHAT IF?...



You could be involved with an amazing community of people who's primary objective is to feed the nations regardless of race or creed?





HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE? FST has designed and built the most efficient food growing systems in the world, through the acceleration of nature's living nitrogen cycles coupled with scientifically engineered food safe environments that produce healthy organic nutrient rich vegetables, herbs, algae, seaweeds, fish, and shellfish.


WHEN CAN WE DO THIS? NOW! Join us and become a member to turn the tide and reduce World Malnutrition, by empowering EVERY family and community with your own turn-key food production system in your control.


Help to render GMO crops obsolete, by growing your own heirloom seeds with natural pest resistant and provide your own fish and shellfish feed independent of the unsustainable wild caught fish feed. Circumvent gluten rich grains, GMO protein fillers such as corn and soybean which is the current feed stock used for fish, cattle, pork and chicken.



ABOUT US



Patrick Dale Silvia



PRODUCTION MANAGER





Patrick attended the first Beach Cities Aquaponic Society meet-up in January 2014. He was one of three members that volunteered to design and build the Urban Aquafarm™.


Patrick was the one who came up with the notion to make the Urban Aquafarm™ mobile so it could be moved in and out of the house and he suggested a more aesthetically pleasing design for the “lady of the house”.


Patrick has tremendous work ethic and is one of the most multi-talented individuals the founders have ever met. He comes to FST with experience not only as an executive sales engineer, but as an Industrial Designer, Machinist and Videographer as well.



In 1994 Patrick received a Diploma from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA and in 2004 received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film graduating from NTMA of Southern California with Honors. In working with Patrick, the FST team found him to have the ability to quickly grasp and contribute to the production of conceptual designs, offer solutions to problems associated with mechanical components, assemblies, production molds and parts. In his recent past employment, he focused on Industrial design, fixture design and fabrication, project estimation and sales. Patrick is proficient in CAD, Cam and as a Cross platform designer in manufacturing and fabrication providing solutions for a range of industries, and materials.


In the FST fast paced environment, Patrick will use his talents in cost and sourcing of materials, organizing materials for fabrication of custom tanks and parts. He will design and draft, parts and assemblies while offering alternatives that cut cost, materials, and lead-time. Patrick currently works as a sales engineer for Roncelli Plastics in Monrovia, CA, the largest plastics manufacturing company in the world, producing everything from NASA and Boeing components, to simple plastic buckets for HOME DEPOT. Patrick has 16 years experience in the defense, aerospace, and semiconductor industries industry as a machinist, shaping new type components as one of his many skills, complimented with using AutoCAD Design to create products before they go into fabrication and production.


The founders see Patrick being able to produce the new tank and pipe shapes on auto CAD in three-dimensional drawings so that any problems could be fixed prior to fabrication for mass production. About 75% of the Suburban Aquafarm™ unit will consist of plastic manufactured components that interlock with each other to eliminate screws, rivets and bolts. Patrick is well suited as Production Manager to complete the workload as forecasted and is very interested in working with us fulltime on this project.



Behind the scenes.



Robert “Bob” Smith



WATER QUALITY MANAGER





Bob started as an Aquarium hobbyist in 1970 and turned professional in 1997, developing and designing a natural biological filtration system. With more than 40 years experience working with seawater filtration systems, he has developed systems to grow coral and fish together with great success. Having seen the incredible results of these aquariums, the founders realized that this was truly a unique art form and skill Bob has mastered.


Currently he is a docent on the interpretive staff of a Californian State owned seawater aquarium, at the Doheny State Beach Visitor Center. The Interpretive center has a 900-gallon tide pool exhibit and five (5) aquarium tanks with shovelnose guitarfish, stingrays, Garibaldi, flounder, rock lobster, moray eel, pilchards, giant kelp, mussels, and rockfish. Knowing how to maintain good water quality is the advantage that separates FST from all others in the industry growing fish with vegetables.


In time the founders have come to know Bob, they found him to be a humble, trustworthy person of integrity and are excited to have him as part of the FST team.



Shelly Smith



QUALITY CONTROL MANAGER





Shelly is a graphic artist with a great eye for detail. Shelly’s roll is to oversee all the quality control of FST products, brochures manuals and literature. Since 1980, she has been the owner of a successful, San Clemente, California based sign business, “All Kinds of Signs”, making signs for many municipalities including contracts with the California Department of Fish and Game and most signs for the city of Laguna Beach.


Shelly has been an aquarium hobbyist since 1997 and currently volunteers as an interpreter, giving educational tours at the aquarium for the Doheny State Beach Interpretive Association. DSBIA teamed with California State Parks in renovating and upgrading the Visitor Interpretive Center (VIC) in 2007.


Today, the VIC contains the largest public aquarium in the California State Park System with a tide pool tank and five (5) other aquarium tanks containing local sea life from the various ocean habitats around Doheny. She has been married to Bob Smith for 28 years.



Dylan Goldsmith



HEAVY EQUIPMENT AND CONSTRUCTION FOREMAN





Dylan has great communication skills and a good understanding of construction drawings. The founders have known Dylan all his life and Dylan is well respected at his current work. He can be trusted with the day-to-day management of the construction site and crews.


Dylan is the ideal operator for leveling land building sites and constructing the Community 500 Aquafarms that will require deep excavations for tank foundations, concrete and steel formwork to be installed.



TREVOR RICHARDS



INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS MANAGER





Trevor is well suited to this roll as he is currently located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia involved with a beach nourishment project, that he has acquired the unique licenses to use. Trevor also has rights to a rubbish deposal furnace system that burns everything to ash using a plasma-heating source.


Trevor is a dear and trusted friend and a civil engineering classmate of FST President, Quentin Koromete, all through their years of study. Trevor and Quentin established an Aquaculture consultancy business from 1988 to 2001, based on the work completed with the abalone hatchery Quentin started.


Trevor developed a unique understanding of aquaculture from an engineering point of view and has been active in this field ever since. FST sees Trevor as the most qualified Civil Engineering manager to take the Community 500 Aquafarm™ units to the world and deliver the systems with the utmost professional approach and efficiency.



Ali Taghavi



HORTICULTURE CONSULTANT AND FISH FEED MANAGER





Ali has a 300-acre farm of Moringa Trees, the second largest plantation of Moringa trees in California. Ali and his wife Jennifer are farmers that provide organic micro-greens and sprouts to the farmer's markets of San Diego County. Their company “Vital Salts” provides healthy and delicious salts and seasoning blends, which they sell through the internet and at farmers markets.


They are active in the organic slow food movement. Ali is trust-worthy and has a gentle nature about him and in addition to his farming practice; he is a massage therapist with a healing modality in water. FST has been working with Ali, to develop fish feed. In testing some of his fish feed blends on FST’s tilapia fish, results have shown quite promising. The biggest challenge is flavoring the food to the finicky fish’s liking.


The founders have discussed different options of growing the various trees and plants that could be ideal for fish feed and only require a contract with him to commit land resources and equipment to establish growing and harvesting trials. Ali’s farm is located in Vista, California it is the best for Moringa Tee growing conditions. Ali has agreed to be a consultant in developing feed and coming to North Carolina to coach FST on growing Moringa Trees and other plants such as sesame and chia.



William J. Cassese



INTERNATIONAL MARKETING MANAGER





William currently operates out of San Diego, CA and has a large network of various business associates worldwide. He has been a successful entrepreneur of large companies in various industries such as General Contracting, Transportation, Entertainment, Information Technology, Inventory Liquidation and Arbitrage.


William is a close and trusted friend of the founders with whom he has done many business projects. He is intimately familiar with the Suburban Aquafarm™ unit, and has brought contacts to view the system on several occasions for potential pre-sales. William is the contact person for the Nigerian bio-fuel project. Nigeria is only one of his contracts.


He is currently in discussions with several parties interested in the Community 500 Aquafarm™ unit, in particular for Asian markets. Besides working to finalizing the contract for the Nigerian project, William anticipates confirming another buyer for a Community 500 Aquafarm™ soon.



JAMES BRIEN



PROJECT FINANCE & COMMERCE ADVISORY





James is a New Zealand born, international entrepreneur, director of the company Ardent 8 Group, currently living in Singapore. James is a trusted friend, best man at the founders wedding and an adopted son to them. The founders have done various projects together with great success.


James has recently been involved with investment banking platforms where he has established his credibility at the table for funding and managing projects. James was once a teenager who became a self-made millionaire by establishing and growing a top five internet service provider company in New Zealand, and later one of the first internet cafe's.


Today, James has directorship, trusteeship, managerial, technology, project management, project funding and finance expertise; he is a trailblazer by definition networking globally. His commercial acumen and knowledge in many related fields is unsurpassed making him the ideal person to assist in setting up FST's information technology as well as organize documentation and processes for large-scale funding, asset management and international licensing.



Richard Blumenthal



WEST COAST MARKETING MANAGER





Richard is another member of the Beach Cities Aquaponic Society. FST founders met Richard in 2011 and he has been invested with FST ever since. Richard has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering and B.A, in Business Administration from the prestigious Rutgers University in New Jersey. Richard has been involved in sales engineering of alternative energy in the particular infrastructure needed for Natural Gas fueling.


Richard was involved in building the second prototype Suburban Aquafarm™. He has developed knowledge of the system and is able to explain the details of the Suburban Aquafarm™ with all its features. He has become a trusted friend of the founders and has 30 years of marketing experience in the engineering field – primarily for factory automation, robotics precision motion control, and process industries in particular heavy industries including refineries, wastewater treatment, and power generation.


Richard is well suited for West Coast clientele relationships and will come to the East Coast on 3-month contract intervals as necessary.



Austin Vinson



Austin Vinson, a native of the Great State of Georgia, grew up on a family farm practicing sustainable animal husbandry and growing field crops while pursuing his passion for sustainable horticulture and agriculture.


Austin learned fine building skills working in his family's remodeling business. This has given him a unique talent stack for our team making him a natural fit for Food Security Technology. Austin will be joining us wherever we relocate as part of our management team.



Daniel Rives



Daniel Rives, is from Birmingham Alabama and currently owns Drivstudios, a film and photography-based company out of Huntsville, Alabama. In 2018 Daniel received his bachelor’s degree in Communications Media and attained his master’s degree in Communication Science with a concentration as a communication specialist at Alabama A & M University.


He currently is an ABC Television News Cameraman traveling with local reporters for news stories, He will be joining us in any relocation of our Company as our communications director and assisting with the setup of our virtual education programs while filming an exclusive documentary of our company.



Sherman Reed



Sherman Reed is USDA District Conservationist for the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. Sherman manages the daily Operations of a USDA field office and offers technical and financial assistance to Agriculture Producers.


Sherman will remotely be assisting FST to grow the company not only as an educator expert in field growing but in our future projects anticipated in USA and Africa.



Dr. Jacob Savage



Dr. Jacob Savage, Civil Rights Activist and Former Professor at Alabama A & M University joined the FST team in 2020 giving us tremendous support for over 2 years. As a child prodigy, Dr. Savage attended Alabama A & M University at the age of 15, earning a Bachelor of Science degree.


He received both his Masters and Ph.D. in Microbiology from Rutgers University. Dr. Savage spent many years studying tilapia fish farming with the intention to use the waste as fertilizer for culturing Hemp. Dr. Savage invented and developed a coagulator machine to clean drinking water which works hand in hand with the FST system.



FOUNDER: NANI KOROMETE



ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGNER ​and PLANT ECOLOGIST ​SPECIALIZING IN GREENHOUSE CROP MANAGEMENT





Nani-Waiata Koromete is a Master Grower, Master Gardener, Organic Fertilizer Expert, Organic Superfood Fish and Small Animal Feed expert CEO and PRESIDENT of Food Security Technology, Inc.


Plant Ecologist specializing in Agricultural Vegetable Crop Management Environmental Designer and Holistic Health Practitioner Nani -Waiata Koromete is a Master Gardener (UCI- California Ext) who has 37 years’ experience growing traditional agriculture crops. She is also a Master Grower with 8 year’s expertise in commercial plant growing production from both seed and clones.


Nani has developed advanced biotechnology for animal feed growing techniques including organic accelerated composting (3 days vs 3 months), Commercial Mycorrhizal Fungi, Earthworm, Black Soldier fly, and Mealworm production processes. ​ Nani's degrees are in Environmental and Interior Architectural design with a minor in CAD furniture design/manufacturing.


Nani has over 30 years of education in biology, botany, plant diagnostics, plant propagation, soil biodiversity, hydroponics, pest management for organic production. Nani has perfected Soil Composition techniques, Hydroponic Vegetable growing techniques Microgreen growing, Sanitary Food Handling techniques and Cannabis growing techniques.


Nani can manage the day to day and big picture operations of a large scale regulated commercial indoor facility with primary responsibilities include cloning, transplanting, feeding, cropping, flushing, spraying and trimming flowers. She can oversee the cultivation procedures and nutrient protocols, keeping accurate records and presenting the results in a timely manner to the appropriate executives as well as develop company cultivation methods and work closely with the rest of the cultivation department to develop and improve processes and supervise all post-harvest activities.


She will develop and maintain Integrated Crop Management (ICM) and Integrated Pest Management (IPM) program and procedures. In addition to cultivation experience, Nani has 32 years entrepreneurial and business development experience having owned 8 different “Brick n Mortar” Businesses in 8 different industries.


Nani’s expertise includes establishing a company culture as she is proficient in people management, conflict resolution and delegation skill. She has the ability to communicate effectively and intelligently with board members, media, investors and visitors. Nani has the key able to balance office demands with time on the production floor.


She has knowledge of the business of large-scale commercial plant cultivation including nutrient requirements, mediums, light requirements, temperature control, air flow, etc. as well as knowledge of plant diseases, insects and fungi, as well as plant treatment options.


Nani is experienced in facility design and can work with architects to create an efficient facility, creating standard operating procedures (SOPs), designing new and innovative biotechnical equipment, creating advanced fertilizer recipe technology, creating material lists, drafting job descriptions, conducting interviews and recruitment of the cultivation team.


Nani continues with daily advanced research in the mastery of soil growing methods including micronutrients, beneficial bacteria and nutrient implementation. She has expert working knowledge in container systems with soil and hydro as well as understanding temperature and humidity manipulation. She has expert knowledge of plant diseases, insects and fungi, as well as organic plant treatment options.


She is researching new techniques and insight to expand knowledge in nutrient of individual strains, high yield recipes, controlled stress environments to different lighting systems and set ups. She continues to research cultivars, strains medicinal implementation and knowledge of effects of plant types for medicinal administration ​ Nani’s thirst for new information has led her to current studies to earn her Master of Marijuana Certification from the Cannabis Industry’s most respected Certification Program at Cannabis Training University.


This certification not only includes growing but the latest information on laws and regulations, dispensary and delivery service management, cannabis business plans, seed selection for 2020, advanced knowledge of the cannabis plant and genetics, bud-tending, trimming, extraction and cooking with cannabis.



FOUNDER: QUENTIN KOROMETE



PIONEER, INVENTOR and PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT





Agriculture and Aquaculture


Quentin was born and raised on a 2,000-acre dry stock farm in Whakaangiangi Valley East Cape, New Zealand (NZ) where natural food was growing everywhere. He has been a Civil Engineer for over 37 years with an added post-graduate education in Aquaculture from the prestigious Deakin University in Australia, specializing in Aquaculture, Nutrition, Propagation, and Water Quality for various sea and fresh water systems.


In 1990, he developed the first NZ Abalone Farm Training Program (Maxcess) and built a Shellfish farm (Lobster, Abalone, Mussels, and Uni (sea urchin) on Stevenson Island in New Zealand which was fully funded by the unemployment division of the NZ Labor Department. In 1999 for his University thesis, he built the first operational Abalone re-circulating hatchery unit in the world and he was the proud "father" of baby abalone, albeit by chance after utilizing what he thought was common aquaculture practices.


As it so happened his technique was unique. In August 2001 he obtained a fish farming licence from the Ministry of Fisheries for his own Saltwater Aquaponics system. Quentin was a founder of Ruawaipu Tribal Authority for which he planned, designed and built a re-circulating Abalone Hatchery and developed a half tonne production abalone system for non-experienced farmers at Potaka which opened on February 1, 2004. It was truly one of the first Salt & Fresh Water Aquaponic systems world wide because this closed loop system in which the 18C degree Saltwater shellfish waste fed the 35C degree brackish water seaweed he was growing to feed them.


Earlier in 1995 he developed the Te Urunga O Te Ra Economic Development Society Constitution and business plan and remained Treasurer of the Waiapu Farmers Co-Coperative re-building project until 2006. In 2007, he assisted his wife in developing and "Organic" Hydroponic system which instead of synthetic fertilizer his wife insisted must use nature made liquid fertilizer.


After moving over seas, in 2012 he built an organic hydroponic system that allowed both he and his wife to enjoy fresh quality organic vegetables every day for their vegan diet. Missing fish in his diet, a year later 2013 he built a 100 square foot greenhouse, aquaponic system growing Tilapia and vegetables together. The unit also included a compost unit which provided organic fertilizer for the vegatables mimicking the system he developed 15 years earlier.


In 2013-2014 he built a Community sized Aquafarm, under the roof of a 12,000 square feet of Greenhouse in Newport Beach, CA. 2,000 square feet was just the Organic Hydroponic System and 1,000 feet of (fish) raceway tanks. In 2014 he donated his time and some resources to build a small educational unit for Coastkeepers Garden located at the site on the back of Santiago Canyon College in Orange, California. 2015 has been spent enhancing his systems such as developing L.E.D. lighting for the algae tanks and Photovoltaic technology to ensure the systems can remain 100% off-grid.


Civil Engineering:


As a province representative of Thames Valley Rugby for two (2) years, Quentin turned down the opportunity to play for the world renowned NZ All Blacks Rugby team and instead choose to travel overseas to follow his passion of Civil Engineering. Quentin is a rare Civil Engineer in that he is experienced in numerous sub-disciplines within Civil Engineering that include architectural engineering, geotechnical engineering, structural engineering, water resources engineering, hydraulic engineering, transportation engineering, environmental engineering, quantity surveying, coastal engineering, construction surveying and construction engineering.


In the early 1980’s his specialty of geotechnical, civil contract, hydraulics and structural engineering landed him in England as a Civil Engineer with The Cementation Company (aka Cementation Skanska) the 3rd largest construction company in England at the time. After demonstrating his talent, he was then promoted as trouble-shooter for the Company’s Military Defense Contracts within United Kingdom.


For the next four (4) years he was appointed as Site Civil Engineer for various problematic projects that included: a Naval Air-force base which entailed extensions to the runways to cater for larger aircrafts, installing new landing lights and catch nets for over runs; building an Inter-continental mobile missile silo; a 5-story Bomb defusing factory; a 22-mile long Supply Pipeline for a Military facility; and Military Housing units with a 200 vehicle parking lot. Quentin returned to New Zealand to work with local council/county government agencies and managed budgets over $15 million annually to build roads, bridges and develop new maintenance contracts.


As the Compliance Engineer for a new type of low-cost housing structure (no nails) he produced a Code of Compliance Manual to be adopted by the New Zealand Government. As a NZ local government official he developed a new system to repair roads at very low cost for which he present a paper at the World Conference for Sustainable Transportation (2004), attended by over 400 engineers from all over the world. Since then he has run his own private engineering company building new housing subdivisions, state of the art irrigation systems, farmland de-watering, surveying and analyzing the viability for hydro-electric sites all over the Country for 2-10 megawatt power stations.


In addition, Quentin has 30+ years of business experience, writing business plans with full financial forecasts, a legal background as a Law Practitioner with the United Tribes of New Zealand with specialized education in civil technology and contract law. Nicknamed Batman (a superhero who tends to break the rules) and often called a Maverick, MacGyver, and Mad Man Workaholic,


Quentin is still physically fit, hands-on, handy with tools, not-to be humble to get his hands dirty digging ditches or mending fences kind of guy. He has built five houses, two of which used technology ahead of its time and requiring only a few days to complete. Aquaculture lends itself to Quentin's knowledge of hydraulics (water) and structures together, which are important disciplines when designing new systems.



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