Sell Organic Produce and Snails
What we do
Bgw provides ghanian locals with solar powered, easy-to-maintain, drip irrigation infrastructure. This allows them to farm year round, making their current farm footprint four times more productive. Using regenerative agriculture expertise from ghana permaculture association, snail farming expertise from ken acquaye, and beekeeping training from richard okoe (natba), our farmers get ‘more crop per drop’. We set up advance purchase contracts with top restaurants in accra, and a speedy river-based logistics chain, giving farmers the ability to sell organic produce and snails at premium prices. Restaurants and hotels in accra pay a premium for our 18 hour farm-to-table service. Next year we plan to collaborate with cosmetic companies to sell the wrinkle-reducing milk that snails produce for their luxury skin care products.
Take Action
Currently, irrigation systems for farming in the region typically last 2-3 years before they need to be replaced. By investing more money up front in quality equipment and maintenance training, we can prolong the lifetime of these irrigation systems, up to 10 years. With support from investors like you, we hope to create a maintenance culture instead of use/break/abandon culture that now exists. Eventually, BGW plans to establish a local parts and service dealership, as well as an affordable soil and water testing lab.
Investment Return
With a USD100K investment (40K grant, 60K loan), BGW will duplicate this U.N. Sustainable Development Goal (SDGs)-rich water solution and give our investors a profitable return in 36 months.
Experts estimate that our agro-forestry and regenerative farming model sequesters up to 5 times more CO2 per acre than tree planting alone. When BGW secures a carbon credits buyer, payback time will be cut in half.
Our farms create sustainable jobs for locals, not only increasing food security but allowing them to make money year around. We have supplied irrigation systems for these farms and the locals are responsible for the land and labor. The snails require high humidity, making it near impossible for them to be farmed before our irrigation system was in place.