Typha Co.
Typha Co.
Canada
Description

Typha Co. is sustaining long-term remediation efforts for Lake Winnipeg‘s environmental crisis by repurposing run-off nutrients into horticulture products (e.g soilless grow media, soil amendments, flowerpots, etc.). Not only does the consumption of our product advance a circular system for nutrient capture initiatives, but it also displaces the use of unsustainable alternatives used by growers (notably peat moss, coco coir, & rockwool).

Number of employees
2 - 10 employees
Company website
https://typhacompany.com/
Categories
Supply chain optimization Environmental sustainability Fundraising Education Scientific research
Industries
Agriculture Environment Manufacturing

Recent projects

Horticulture Grower

The goal of the project is to verify the properties and quality of our more sustainable and renewable soilless growing media formulations. We have a mission to create a growing medium with a far lower environmental footprint than the status quo peat based growing mediums. We want to accomplish this by using Typha or Cattails that absorb agricultural and human waste nutrient pollutants from watersheds, mitigating eutrophication downstream in lakes and other water bodies. Harvesting and repurposing Typha has been shown to successfully remove significant amounts of pollutant N and P from water systems by taking it out of the system. Harvested wetlands have also been shown to continue to grow to full health year after year. Typha, while having benefits such as a high nutrient content, has some shortcomings compared to the standard growing media ingredients in industry practice. Your job will be to quantify these shortcomings and benefits of Typha through simple tests and a growing trial. 

Admin Alec Massé
Matches 2
Category Biotechnology + 2
Open

Digital marketing

#1 Website implementation & refining. #2 Website activity tracking. #3 Website B2C & B2B sales #4 Creating sales funnels with advertising #5 Automize digital marketing

Admin Alec Massé
Matches 1
Category Advertising + 4
Open

Digital marketing for a small social entreprise

#1 Website implementation support #2 Website and social media activity tracking/ reporting #3 Website SEO optimization #4 Creating sales funnels with advertising (pay-per-click) PPC adds #5 Revamp social media presence by developing 2024 content calendar and utilizing Influencer marketing tactics. #6 Integrate Shopify account link on to wordpress (buy now) buttons for B2C sales.

Admin Alec Massé
Matches 1
Category Website development + 4
Closed

Bioresource Strategist

We have a mission to create a growing medium with a far lower environmental footprint than the status quo peat based growing mediums. We want to accomplish this by using Typha or Cattails that absorb agricultural and human waste nutrient pollutants from watersheds, mitigating eutrophication downstream in lakes and other water bodies. Harvesting and repurposing Typha has been shown to successfully remove significant amounts of pollutant N and P from water systems by taking it out of the system. While importantly, harvested wetlands have also been shown to continue to grow to great health year after year. We currently have access to a constructed wetland which can supply us enough Typha for at least the next year. Although we will need to expand our harvesting operations as business grows. There is an estimated 3-6 million tonnes of Typha available to be harvested annually in Manitoba and we would like to harvest at maximum, a tenth of that in the future. Much of this harvestable Typha is on crown land, private farms, and municipal property. We would like you to come up with and report on strategies necessary to reach this harvesting goal at a low cost and with minimal negative effect on the environment.

Admin Alec Massé
Matches 2
Category Operations + 4
Closed

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