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Congratulations. I appreciate the commitment to this work. What is your analysis of other businesses that are offering similar models? ....like Sky Vegetables or Harvest Power or others?","answer":"Hi Deb. Thanks for your question and your support! Sky Vegetables has done well to demonstrate the concept of growing food in urban areas by using new or existing rooftops to add greenhouse food production areas. I'd be interested to see if their facility could be operated profitably without their assumed subsidy. Harvest Power provides PV Solar power to residential and commercial operations. The HeartFoods operations also include PV Solar to provide green power as part of our Net Zero Energy..."},{"question":"Hello, I cannot access the Appendix B and the Form C itself is not downloading correctly for me. What is the current valuation for the raise? Thank you!","answer":"Hi Eric. We are in the seed round for our startup, seeking to raise $2M on Wefunder. 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