The White Tiger Farms LLC is an ag enterprise to be sited on land in and around Ashland, Oregon, on large acreage ranch properties now up for sale, in order to set up farm sites to build production capacity of two alternative plant species that yield a high quality natural rubber (NR). Our country imports and uses two million tons per year of NR for American manufacturers to produce 50,000 products that depend on it. The DoD considers NR to be a strategic material, vital to our national security, yet we import what we use from five Asian countries, China and Vietnam among them, that is a dependency that cannot continue. White Tiger Farms will use a scalable approach to ramp up production of the Kazakh Dandelion (Taraxacum Kok sagyz) also known as ‘Rubber Root’ for the natural rubber found in its roots, and the desert rubber plant, Guayule (Parthenium argentatum), used in WWII to make tires for the American military, from natural rubber produced in Mexico from this species adapted to dry, arid conditions in the Southwest. 

Dr. Katrina Cornish, CEO, Energyene Inc., and head of her Cornish Lab at Ohio State University, in Wooster, OH, is presently working to increase the NR content of both Guayule and the TKS dandelion, for commercial production of raw NR with a 95% purity, using a water based extraction process developed at OSU. She is also working with American Sustainable Rubber to ramp up production of Guayule NR, which is non-allergenic for the medical industry.

With land available in Oregon, zoned for agriculture, and a parcel of land in the Tech Hills area of Klamath Falls, Oregon, zoned for commercial and light industrial manufacturing, ideal for construction of facilities to turn sustainable harvests of roots and stem cuttings, into raw NR to sell to manufacturers for further processing into products, this ag enterprise will enable America to go from being an importer of NR to becoming the first nation to become an exporter of NR using alternative plant species. In 2020 a million rubber trees (Hevea brasilensis) died from fungal leaf blight, causing a 10% loss to the global NR supply, with a growing global demand of 17 million tons. More of the rubber trees are being lost each year to climate change, deforestation, and negative human impact, while demand continues to grow as more nations use NR to make products that require it.

Greenhouse domes of 164’ diameter are available from domespaces.com with an 82’ floor to ceiling height at center point, high enough to have a main floor, and four floors above it, each with at least 15’ floor to ceiling height. Aluminum indoor A-Frame growing racks that are 12’ high, and extensible to 16’6” in length, are offered by www.verticalgardensupply.com to hold those two plant species to grow. 

With funds to become available to this project shortly, a dozen of the greenhouse domes will be ordered, and container loads by flatbed delivery of the A-Frame racks will be ordered for placement on the first farm site, with 3,266 deeded acres in area, zoned for agriculture and destination resort development, ideal as a showcase for existing systems to produce clean energy, food and water year round. We will use 100 Kw and 10 Mw digital magnetic power generators (DMIG) from 3-bears.com for onsite power. Atmospheric water generators from Quench Innovations will give us up to 10,000 gallons per day of pure water for our indoor growing operations in the Greenhouse domes, and provide water for our outdoor plantings, using food forest / Permaculture design.

Some of our greenhouse domes will be used for our tropical food forest plantings to save rare species at risk from deforestation, climate change, and negative human impact in their native lands, along with heirloom cultivars of food plants used for many generations here in America, working with www.seedways.org and Dr. William Woys Weaver.

While this project will not turn our country into an exporter of NR overnight, it will happen through scaling up from our first site, and our beginnings, but this is a project that is vital to our country’s future needs for high quality natural rubber, and we will make it happen. Our first site North of Klamath Falls, along the Falls Highway, we will have a glamping resort to welcome guests and visitors to see for themselves that it is now possible to produce abundant clean energy, food and water, entirely off the grid, and to prove that it can be done with existing systems. 

To learn more, http://whitetiger511.tripod.com offers our project overview with visuals to help gain a better view of a wonderful project our country needs.