# HeartFoods Community Farms

Transforming our food system by upcycling  food wastes to grow vegetables, greens, herbs and berries

## Elevator pitch
HeartFoods Community Farms designs, builds and supports the operations of food waste to food production in new or renovated buildings and properties in communities around the world. With our help, clients setup up profitable farming operations within food deserts to bring healthy fresh food and jobs to the local residents. HeartFoods Community Farms addresses all four parts of the world’s food system that must be transformed: production, processing, distribution and consumption.

- Canonical URL: https://wefunder.com/heartfoods
- Entity ID: wefunder:company:78518
- Last updated: 2026-06-17T05:02:03Z
- Generated at: 2026-06-18T00:59:44Z

## Quick facts
- Fresh organic foods are grown year-round using recycled nutrients, carbon, water and energy from local food wastes
- Sales of "turnkey" design-build-operate contracts to local farm owners
- CEO is professional engineer with 25+ years sustainable project design and construction experience
- Sales projected to expand 5X annually in current multi-billion dollar food waste up-cycling market
- Mission is to reduce global food waste and provide local organic food, one community at a time
- Unique design of cleantech: anaerobic/fermentation digester, fuel cells, bioaugmentation, solar PV, and geothermal
- Our innovative, proprietary processes capture the carbon in food wastes to increase crop growth.
- The upcycled food waste industry is worth over $50 billion (and climbing). $1 trillion worth of food is wasted per year.

## Active fundraises
- wefunder:fundraise:42448: 4(a)(6) successful (USD)
- wefunder:fundraise:42449: 4(a)(6) successful (USD)

## FAQ
1. **This is super exciting. 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?**
   - 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...
2. **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!**
   - Hi Eric. We are in the seed round for our startup, seeking to raise $2M on Wefunder. The investors are under a SAFE with a 30% discount. Once we reach $250K the first draw from the escrow account will be made. Here's the link to the SEC - EDGAR site where the registered Form C can be reviewed: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1891091/000167025421001266/xslC_X01/primary_doc.xml
3. **Hi there, Do I understand correctly that your plan is basically to get only relatively small communities - and only those that are near enough to farm land - off of the national "food grid"? What is the maximum size community it would be feasible for? Obviously it would not wo...**
   - Hi Josh, Here are answers to your two question topics. 1. Ideal locations for HeartFoods Community Farms. Most communities, urban or rural, can build and operate a HeartFoods farm, as long as they are big enough to generate adequate food waste to assure a profitable operation. Larger communities and cities will have multiple HeartFoods farms which are ideally located within the core of the community centers where housing, restaurants, hospitals, and schools are located, where an abundance of ...
4. **Thank you very much Janet. So if you will be using your own natural fertilizers, will your products legally be able to be called "organic," even though they are for the most part, I assume, actually recycled non-organic produce? Re the financial issue, putting aside the fact t...**
   - 1. Yes, the liquid fertilizer that is produced from food waste can be certified organic, as is the HeartFoods’ proprietary natural biological process for enhancing a “probiotic” type of nutrient mix for use in the hydroponic and aeroponic grow rooms. The fertilizer meets organic standards so that the food crops grown in the HeartFoods farms can also be certified as organic food. Our selling price point for the HeartFoods’ fresh organic produce is at or below “conventional” non-organic food pr...

## Team
- Mark Buehrer (Founder and CEO)
- Janet  “Jessie” Buehrer (Founder and CFO)

## Recent posts
- HeartFoods Founder, Summit Keynote Speaker (2024-10-24T22:14:48Z)
- Food is Medicine (2023-12-29T00:59:19Z)
- HeartFoods Partnership and Team Building (2023-05-30T20:31:44Z)
- HeartFoods Welcomed at European Conference - LOOP Forum, Copenhagen (2023-05-25T22:51:54Z)
- Regenerative Agriculture & Food Systems Summit 2023 - Chicago, Illinois (2023-05-25T22:42:53Z)
- Investor Updates! HeartFoods New Website & Licensing Agreements (2023-05-22T18:29:46Z)
- November Investor Update - Pilot Study Remote Monitoring (2022-11-21T22:32:36Z)
- November Investor Update -Branding & Marketing (2022-11-21T22:25:08Z)
- August 2022 Update (2022-08-08T04:56:44Z)
- Thanks to you! (2022-06-07T19:11:34Z)
- Thanks to you, we made it! (2022-04-29T16:44:54Z)
- Happy Earth Day! (2022-04-23T01:31:49Z)
- How We Grow! (2022-04-04T02:19:09Z)
- Help address the global food crisis (2022-03-18T19:55:41Z)
- On The Road – Introducing HeartFoods Community Farms (2022-03-14T02:28:04Z)

## Q&A
- Q: Thank you very much Janet. So if you will be using your own natural fertilizers, will your products legally be able to be called "organic," even though they are for the most part, I assume, actually recycled non-organic produce? Re the financial issue, putting aside the fact that most startup fundraisers even at your early stage do manage to arrive at some explainable valuation, most startups have several crowdfunding campaigns before a Series A fundraiser, during which time the "valuation" of the company (whether you call it by that name or not) may multiply exponentially, as you yourselves speak of an ANNUAL expansion of 5x, so it does not inviting at all - or fair - to invest seed money at this riskiest early point to receive only a 30% discount on what accredited investors will pay a few years down the road at much less risk and much better value. Am I missing something?
  - A: 1. Yes, the liquid fertilizer that is produced from food waste can be certified organic, as is the HeartFoods’ proprietary natural biological process for enhancing a “probiotic” type of nutrient mix for use in the hydroponic and aeroponic grow rooms. The fertilizer meets organic standards so that the food crops grown in the HeartFoods farms can also be certified as organic food. Our selling price point for the HeartFoods’ fresh organic produce is at or below “conventional” non-organic food prices found at local grocery stores. 2. Our current financial plan is to take in a Series A investment round soon after the Wefunder seed round is completed. We are currently speaking with serious investors that are interested in HeartFoods.
- Q: Hi there, Do I understand correctly that your plan is basically to get only relatively small communities - and only those that are near enough to farm land - off of the national "food grid"? What is the maximum size community it would be feasible for? Obviously it would not work for a large city, or could it? And would you be able to supply each community with ALL of its farm needs, because if not, the necessity to inevitably go shopping would likely cut into your sales. Also, no valuation cap is stated. Am I to assume that to be identical to the total amount you are raising, which is $2M, and that the current share price then would be $2M divided by the $12M of the future Series A which you estimate will be at a $1/share, meaning a current share price of $0.166? But that, which is only a 6x share increase, does not fit with your business model of annual expansion of 5x. What am I missing or have gotten wrong? And whatever the valuation is, will you be maintaining that until you reach the $2M mark, or might you raise it already after you reach the initial $250K mark? What is your long term vision toward which you are working? Can you see yourselves becoming a multi-billion dollar international company? Your model would probably work even better in developing countries than in the US. Thanks.
  - A: Hi Josh, Here are answers to your two question topics. 1. Ideal locations for HeartFoods Community Farms. Most communities, urban or rural, can build and operate a HeartFoods farm, as long as they are big enough to generate adequate food waste to assure a profitable operation. Larger communities and cities will have multiple HeartFoods farms which are ideally located within the core of the community centers where housing, restaurants, hospitals, and schools are located, where an abundance of food waste is found that is converted into healthy food for those same customers. Our community farms grow a large selection of healthy vegetables, berries, herbs, and greens. Larger operations also grow fish and shrimp. Other types of food for a community will be supplied by the current food supply chain, although food wastes from those foods can be put into our system (i.e., grains, oils, fruits, and root vegetables). Since we grow hydroponic and aeroponic using a probiotic type of liquid fertilizer that is created in our unique process (i.e., crops are grown in a soilless grow media) the HeartFoods farms are not associated with farmland. So, the location of a HeartFoods farms is more dependent on being located as close as possible to the source of food wastes and our food customers. This location criteria is a very important part of minimizing the costly transport of foods which is part of the problem of our current global food system. 2. SAFE agreement terms. We felt that setting a valuation cap for a startup like HeartFoods, that has potential for large growth, was too arbitrary for a seed funding round. The 30% discount rate is much easier to understand and apply to our startup, where money invested at this seed round gets converted to shares at 70% of the cost paid for shares by a future Series A investor. HeartFoods is entering an $8 trillion global food market. Since our HeartFoods farms can be located in any worldwide community location, the growth possibilities seem highly favorable for our agritech food waste to food production business niche.
- Q: 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!
  - A: Hi Eric. We are in the seed round for our startup, seeking to raise $2M on Wefunder. The investors are under a SAFE with a 30% discount. Once we reach $250K the first draw from the escrow account will be made. Here's the link to the SEC - EDGAR site where the registered Form C can be reviewed: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1891091/000167025421001266/xslC_X01/primary_doc.xml
- Q: This is super exciting. 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?
  - A: 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 design. The PV panels will come direct from manufacturers to keep our costs down. We also generate power from the energy we capture from the biogas production in our food waste digestor process where the separated methane gas is used to produce clean power via a fuel cell that creates electricity, heat and pure water, all of which are used in the efficient food production operations. Also, the food waste resources that we use (which in most locations we can charge a fee to accept the food waste) helps make the HeartFoods operations more profitable as well as providing an organic source of fertilizer that is used in our hydroponic and aeroponic vertical and greenhouse grow rooms. Besides the nutrients and energy in the food wastes, we also capture the carbon and water that optimize the overall operations. It's the integration of all the components in the HeartFoods' food waste to food production that makes for an efficient and cost-effective operation! ;-)