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Lichen Growing Mediums Pty Ltd Company Dave Marock: +27 82 551 1305davem@lichengroup.co.za

Wendy Marock (Accounts) +27 82 551 1305accounts@lichengroup.co.za

Knut Beining (Operations) +27823040338operations@lichengroup.co.za

Website: www.lichengroup.co.za

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Mushroom CasingHarte Peat South Africa / Africa

With a fully integrated automated production facility, Harte Peat has control over the entire process from the raw material stage to the bagging and packing of the final product. This allows Harte Peat to exercise strict and exacting standards on production quality and costs

Lichen is the exclusive supplier of Harte Peat in Africa, supplying more than 80% of the mushroom industry volume. Being a dominant and trusted supplier is a valuable position to endorse the other

Lichen growing medium brands as a trusted supplier for new clients.

Harte Peat Ireland has been producing casing for the worldwide market for over 20 years. The success of our business has been built on meeting our customers’ expectations in relation to product quality, mix quality and freedom from disease.

Whatever your growing system, Harte Peat can provide casing to meet your requirements.

Harte Peat have been running their own peat bogs which adhere to the Mushroom Casing Standards provided by Bord Bia. We are regularly audited by Bord Bia. Our Peat Extraction

Process is in line with strict environmental and industry best practice directives.

Testing for Salmonella, E-Coli & Listeria

Harte Peat, our casing supplier, does regular testing for Listeria as follows:

Harte produces 2 batches per week on site, production on Mon, Tue & Wed is the first batch and production on Thursday, Friday & Saturday is the second batch, each batch has a number determined by the corresponding Julian calendar number, the Julian date on Monday for batch 1 and Julian date for Thursday on batch 2.

All raw materials would have a certificate of Salmonella, E-Coli & Listeria free status, we also take quarterly samples of each input and send for testing at an approved Laboratory.

A sample of the blended finished product from the daily production run on every batch is sent to an Approved lab for testing, the process involves taking a daily sample and from this a representative batch sample is sent to the lab, each batch is certified for Listeria, Salmonella & E-coli free status.

Harte can provide a certification on all the batches that we supply to a farm. Each container of Harte Peat also has a phytosanitary certificate by container serial number.

1,2m³ bags 36 bags in a 6-meter container. Weight ±745kg per bag

The mushroom casing in a 1,2m³ bag as per order is made up as follows: • 70% wet peat • 25-30% milled peat (dry peat) • 10% sugar beet lime ORStandard Wet Dug Black Peat Heavy Mix. NO extra 25-30% milled peat (dry peat)

Dumpy Bag

2,5m³ bags 20 bags in a 6-meter per container. Weight ±1250kg per bag.

The mushroom casing in a 2.5m³ bag as per order is made up as follows: • 70% wet peat • 25-30% milled peat (dry peat) • 10% sugar beet limeORStandard Wet Dug Black Peat Heavy Mix. NO extra 25-30% milled peat (dry peat)

Big Bag

50L bags 1050 Bags in a 6-metre container. Weight ±23kg per bag.

The mushroom casing in a 50-litre bag is made up as follows: • 70% wet peat • 25-30% milled peat (dry peat) • 10% sugar beet lime

Handy Pack

Our 300-litre double compressed sphagnum peat bale is approx. dimensions 900 x 500 x 370 mm and we fit 440 bales in a 12mt-40′ hi-cube container, unpalletized.

• Irish Peat • Certified Organic • Bord Bia Approved • Full Support

Irish Sphagnum 300 Litre Bag

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Coco Peat / Coco CoirMushroom Shelving & EquipmentWe are leading suppliers of products & services to the Mushroom Industry. Our specialist designers and engineers of tunnel growing rooms offer you bespoke packages to suit your individual needs.

We supply Structures, Shelving, Climate Control, Lighting & Nets

Phase Three CompostSouth Africa is facing a drought in various parts of the country, this has placed the straw farmers at risk who supply the mushroom farms with straw to make compost. A second area of concern is the avian bird flu which has placed chicken manure part of the compost mix also at risk. Lichen Group has been forwarding thinking and secured the agency for Sub Sahara Africa and the SADC region.

Coconut chips are made from coconut husks that are run through chipping machines.

They come in several sizes and are useful to growers who need to constantly provide nutrients

to their crops. Drainage is outstanding and the coarse

texture allows easy root penetration.

Types of Coco Peat / Coco Coir

The “peat” of coconut coir, this basically looks like finely ground coconut or peat moss.

It’s so small and absorbent that if you were to use coco peat

as your only growing medium, you might drown out the roots of your plants. It must be aged

properly to be used as a growing media, as it can let out salts that

will kill your plant if you’re not careful. Choosing a coconut coir manufacturer that ages properly is thus crucial for good growing.

Coconut fibre adds air pockets into your medium. It’s not

very absorbent, which is good because your growing media needs air pockets in order to

provide oxygen to the root zone. Coconut fibres do not break down quickly, which adds texture to the blend.

Coco Peat Coco Fibre Coco Chips

All Projar coir products are consistently of the highest quality, pre-washed with low EC and ready for use.

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Benefits

• Excellent sifting/screening for removal of finer particles

• Its chip content guarantees good drainage throughout its useful life

• To aid with correct positioning and to save labour, it can be supplied with a hole for an irrigation dripper

• Homogeneous and uniform product

• 100% natural, renewable and recyclable material

• Sustainable product

• In-house production.

OMRI organic quality certificate

Thanks to this composition, it is ideal for blueberry cultivation due to its high aeration capacity, avoiding stress caused by root asphyxiation, and at the same time, providing the plant with a reserve of water for critical moments of stress caused by to high temperatures.

High-quality coconut fibre in ready-to-use individual packaging. Composed of our Golden Grow Hydroponics Premium coconut blend.

Facilitates crop management, pH control and electrical conductivity. It comes either in 800 gauge plastic bags with a 5-year warranty and high number of drainage points to facilitate moisture control and washing of salts or without the plastic liner, allowing it to be placed in pots with the same dimensions.

Frequency/Irrigation cycles: High. Shipping: 7200 / container.

Golden Grow Blueberry Easyplanter

40% 55%

5%

Measures

25x18x18, / 20x18x18 / 20x18x16

Water Retention

Aeration

Solid Material

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Benefits of Coco Peat / Coco Coir

Good transition from soil

gardening

Growing in coco coir feels like growing

in soil, because the two media look so

similar. You can have a completely hydroponic garden that looks almost the same as a soil garden. The only

difference is instead of watering with only

water, you’d water your coconut coir

garden with nutrient-enriched water.

Insect-neutral

Most garden pests do not enjoy settling

in coconut coir, making it yet another

line of defense in your integrated pest management system

for your garden.

Environmentally safe

It can be used more than once unlike other products,

which breaks down over time. It’s also a byproduct from a renewable source.

Retains moisture and provides a

good environment

Coco coir is one of the most effective growing media for water retention out there. It can absorb up to 10x its weight

in water, meaning the roots of your plants will never get dehydrated. There’s also a lot of growing media for

roots to work through, promoting healthy root

development.

Coco Coir Growing Medium

Coir is a “soiless” growing media made from coconut husks. Sometimes coir is referred to as “coco peat” because of similarities in appearance to peat. Coir is widely used for seedlings, cuttings, and clones as well as cultivation of microgreens, peppers, tomatoes, cucumber, blueberries, strawberries, roses, orchids, and more.

5kg Coir Block

This growing media comes from the mesocarp of the coconut and is intended for hydroponics and/or substrate. Homogeneous product that enables higher yield (expanded kilograms per liter) with a guaranteed quality. This product is available in blocks and briquettes.

Neutral pH (5.5 to 6.5) Low EC <8 Size: 30x30x15 cm

Golden Grow Blueberry Easyplanter 5kg Blocks

Specifications

• 240 Blocks / pallet

• Units per 40´ HC (20 pallets 23-24Tn)

• 4600 Blocks / container

• Palletised, wrapped in stretched film and strapped for better stability

Ideal to use with a 25L pot or 45L growbag

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Ingredients

White Sphagnum Peat, Coarse Per-lite

Available Sizes250L

300L

Big Bales 5.5-6.0m3

Wetting Agent Added

QTS Blueberry Cultivation Premium + Perlite Coarse

White Sphagnum

Peat 5-20mm, H2-H4

White Sphagnum

Peat 0-5mm, H2-H4

White Sphagnum Peat 20-40mm,

H2-H4

White Sphagnum

F40+, H2-H4

Perlite

Ingredients

White Sphagnum Peat, Perlite, Coir

Available Sizes

250L

300L

Big Bales 5.5-6.0m3

Wetting Agent Added

QTS Berry Blend + Perlite + Coir White Sphagnum

Peat 5-20mm, H2-H4

White Sphagnum

Peat 0-5mm, H2-H4

White Sphagnum Peat 20-40mm,

H2-H4

White Sphagnum

F40+, H2-H4

Perlite Coir

Chemical Characteristics

ph (H2O): 4.0 -5.0 Fertiliser (g/l): 0.5 NPK +TE EC (ms/cm): 0.4-0.6

Nutritional Value

Nitrogen (mg N/I): 56-84 Phosphorus (mg P2O5 /1): 64-96 Potassium (mg K2O /1: 72-108

Irish Sphagnum Peat

Our Berry Blends are to be made to customer’s specifications.

Use our specialised Blueberry Premium Blend if the aeration for the roots of your plants plays a major role. It has a larger content of sod peat / white sphagnum peat and is coarser than our standard product to increase the air capacity.

Also suitable as a component to mix it with your soil to improve the aeration. Soil blend science has proved that adding coconut coir to the mix improves aerablity, drainage and moisture retention.

The pH and EC can be adjusted according to your special needs.

Compaqpeat Specialised Berry Blends

Latvian Peat Producers

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Black Peat H6-H8Fine screened material for

vegetable,young plants or mushroom cultivation.

White Peat H2-H4, 0-20mmFine screened material for generic multiplication soils. Seedlings and

cutting young plants. Small cultivation pots: 6cm until 10cm.

White Peat H2-H4, 10-30 mmScreened material for soil additive

Pots from 14cm until 18cm.Containers and stock plants.

White Peat H2-H4, 0-40mmMiddle screened material for potting

soils.Pots from 10cm until 14 cm.

Block Peat H2-H4, 20-40mmSpecial screend material for elite material and stock plants. Container and baskets.

White Peat H2-H4, +40 FScreened material with fibers.

For containers and cut flowers substrates

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Grow bags are mainly used for hydroponics growing under greenhouse conditions. his composition is perfect for warm climates with periods of high solar radiation. Its high capacity of water retention prevents hydric stress water in warm conditions.

Frequency/Irrigation cycles: low.

Golden Grow Hydroponics Standard Grow Bag

Specifications

Electric Conductivity:

Natural: 1,5-2,5 mS/cm (Sonneveld 1:1,5 v/v) / 2,0-4,0 mS/cm (Saturated paste)

Washed: ≤ 1,0 mS/cm (Sonneveld 1:1,5 v/v) ≤ 1,5 mS/cm (Saturated paste)

pH: 5,5-6,2 (Sonneveld 1:1,5 v/v)

Water Air Ratio: Vegetative

Sizes:

100x18x16 / 100x18x14 / 100x18x12 / 100x20x10

Crops:Tomatoes

Peppers

Cucumbers

Advantages:

• Excelent screening to eliminate finer particles

• Progressive granulometry: Thin on top and thick on the bottom

• Its content in chips ensures a good drainage during its useful life

• For a proper placement and labor savings the product can be supplied with a hole for the dropper

• Even and homogeneus product

• 100% natural, renewable and recyclable

• Sustainable product

• Own manufactur

• Organic quality certificate OMRI

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Grow bags are mainly used for hydroponics growing under greenhouse conditions. This composition it is perfect for tropical or temperate climates with periods of thigh solar radiation combined with other cold temperature and low solar radiation.

Frequency/Irrigation cycles: Medium-low.

Golden Grow Hydroponics Balance Grow Bag

Specifications

Electric Conductivity:

Natural: 1,5-2,5 mS/cm (Sonneveld 1:1,5 v/v) / 2,0-4,0 mS/cm (Saturated paste)

Washed: ≤ 1,0 mS/cm (Sonneveld 1:1,5 v/v) ≤ 1,5 mS/cm (Saturated paste)

pH: 5,5-6,2 (Sonneveld 1:1,5 v/v)

Water Air Ratio: Vegetative

Sizes:

100x18x16 / 100x18x14 / 100x18x12 / 100x20x10

Crops:Rasberries

Strawberries

Advantages:

• Long service life

• Technical screening- homogeneous distribution

• 100% natural, renewable and recyclable

• Sustainable product

• Own manufacture

• Organic quality certificate OMRI

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Grow bags are mainly used for hydroponics growing under greenhouse conditions. This composition it is perfect for tropical or temperate climates with periods of thigh solar radiation combined with other cold temperature and low solar radiation.

Crops:Citrus

Olive Trees

Golden Grow Hydroponics Balance Grow Bag

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Advantages

• Excelent screening to eliminate finer particles

• Progressive granulometry: Thin on top and thick on the bottom

• Its content in chips ensures a good drainage during its useful life

• For a proper placement and labor savings the product can be supplied with a hole for the dropper

• Even and homogeneus product

• 100% natural, renewable and recyclable

• Sustainable product

• Own manufacture

• Organic quality certificate OMRI

This product has a special triple layer composition

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Ingredients:

White Sphagnum Peat, Black Sphagnum Peat & Perlite

Available Sizes:

Bags 250ltr / 6 cbm

(From October 2018 we can ship 144m³ / 12 meter HC)

Chemical Characteristics:

pH (CaCl2): 5.3-5.7

Fertilizer(g/l): 1.2 NPK + TE

EC(ms/cm): 1.0 – 1.5

Wetting Agent Added

Nutritional Value:

Nitrogen (mg N/l): 140-210

Phosphorus (mg2P5O l) 160-240

Potassium (mg K2O/l) 180-270

*Including all necessary trace elements including Microcomplex Fe 250 gr

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Advantages

• Excelent screening to eliminate finer particles

• Progressive granulometry: Thin on top and thick on the bottom

• Its content in chips ensures a good drainage during its useful life

• For a proper placement and labor savings the product can be supplied with a hole for the dropper

• Even and homogeneus product

• 100% natural, renewable and recyclable

• Sustainable product

• Own manufacture

• Organic quality certificate OMRI

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The SOG Trickling Filter™ is a waste water treatment process that has evolved from the need to treat small and sporadic amounts of domestic sewage. Unlike most conventional sewage treatment plants, the SOG filter makes use of earthworms, fungus and bacteria to treat sewage. By spreading the type of organism activity, a larger range of variable flow and load is possible.

The SOG Trickling Filter™

Saving the world, one trickle at a time™

Lichen delivers a comprehensive range of domestic and international logistics services by leveraging its volume of own imports to deliver competitive door to door freight forwarding and clearing service to customers. The Logistics capability is not limited to mushroom related products.

Logistics

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Irish Sphagnum Peat

Peat Bed is a new and innovative poultry, dairy and dry stock cattle bedding material that has been specially formulated.

The Peat Bed products are made from super dry, super fine peat that is blended with a liming agent. The peat is harvested from peat fields using specially designed machinery.

The peat is then brought to our factory where it is screened to obtain the optimum particle size and then mixed with a liming agent. Peat Bed can be delivered in semi bulk bags.

Peat Bedding

Contact UsLichen Growing Mediums is the exclusive agent to a number of suppliers that provide products

and services to the mushroom and growing farming industry in Africa. Additionally, Lichen also

offers water treatment solutions as well as general logistics services.

Dave Marock: +27 82 551 1305 / davem@lichengroup.co.za

Kunaal Mehta: + 27 82 081 8121 / kunaal@clearwatercapitl.co.za

Wendy Marock (Accounts): +27 82 446 3301 / accounts@lichengroup.co.za

Knut Beining (Operations): +27 82 304 0338 / operations@lichengoup.co.za

Office

Postnet Suite 397,

Private Bag X15

Somerset West 7129

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B-BBEELichen Growing Mediums has been evaluated in terms of section 9(1) of the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Act 52 of 2003

B-BBEE Status: Level Four Contributor B-BBEE Procurement Level: 100% Recognition

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