I grew up on a hog farm. That experience drew the connection between the quality of the ingestion and the health of the organism. Also, a few injuries developed an intimate relationship to healthcare and what that term really means. What is healthcare and wellness mean, from whose perspective? From whose bias to gain, what?

In order to understand what it means to be healthy in a commercially oriented world, many hours were spent in the law library. How does a government offer "security of the person" and where does the quality of the population's ingestions fit into that security?

Security, in my opinion, starts with food and the quality of that ingestion. Food is a national security issue. How insecure is a hungry population unable to access food? Ever see people reaching over one another to get a serving of rice or water when they haven't eaten in a few days?

Personal development programs led to learning about neurology and epigenetics. I realized that the human being is the sum of only two ingestions: nutrition and information. The quality of both determines the quality of the individual's life outcome. A TedTalk is being developed around this subject with the intent to deliver this speech in 2025. A manuscript has also been written. It details the foundation of a healthy human and humanity. It requires editing and a few source references to be included before being made public.

Taking health a step further is looking at how food is produced. Growing up around animals and nature, the life that gives life was evident. Yet, how often do we consider the life of a plant? Is a plant not life that gives life, even to the animals we consume?

After a neck herniation in 2012, a chronic pain condition developed. Wanting to avoid the opiates and synthetic experimentations around pain, I found myself on a mission to heal through plants. This resulted in going back to school to get a formal degree in horticulture. I knew that this human relationship with plants would be my career path for the rest of my days.

When learning about plants, a diversity of background offered a unique view of how to evolve this human/plant relationship. In 2023, I was approached to design and build a vertical farm. It wasn't just a vertical farm. It was likely one of the largest vertical farm projects to be, in the world. It will likely not come to fruition given the decisions of the client, but this work evolved to develop the spreadsheets for plant cultivation optimization.

That brings us to today. The calculators have been built to customize cultivation based on the health and wellness of the plant cultivar. What does a plant need to be healthy and thriving? This eventually turned into the development of a turn-key cultivation facility that is scalable and energy-efficient with a capacity to develop regional and local supply chains to combat the 30+% food waste and nutrient, flavor, and freshness loss issues through existing supply chains. It was also based upon a market like Canada that is food insecure importing over 70% of its produce from outside of Canada. As we have just witnessed, geopolitics can change things quickly and dramatically. The benefit of the trade war is Canada's requirements to improve internal systems. To ensure Canada's sovereignty remains intact, the approach of CEHort is to focus on scaled diversified food production as a national security issue.

How can Canada become more food secure when the climate isn't conducive to year-round cultivation, while lacking crop diversity, contemplating human health through nutritional intakes.

This is where optimizing the entire cultivation process related to indoor growing environments to feed more people, fresher, more flavourful, and nutrient-dense produce, came from.

Utilizing a diverse set of skills, CEHort is designed to bring together subject matter experts to build the best possible energy-efficient cultivation systems to feed the many over the few.