About Mila Innovations
The name
isiXhosa, from ukumila: to grow.
The network
Find your way into the Mila network.
What we believe
We grow on what was left behind.
Mila Innovations began in a yard at a family home. The red soil was cleared, old bricks became the first beds, and the first seedlings went in.
The idea has held as the work grows. Land, buildings and even carbon that others have written off can still grow something.
Where it grows
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01Growing
A yard
Red soil cleared at a family home, and beds built from old bricks. The first plants are in.
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02Planned
Old buildings
Buildings that outlived the work they were made for, turned into indoor gardens.
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03Proposed
Mine land
Mining left ground in the North West polluted with metals. Hemp can grow where food should not, and draw some of those metals up out of the soil. A plan to plant it there, and make fuel and building materials from the harvest, is with a mining company.
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04The aim
Carbon
Carbon dioxide from industry, fed into greenhouses to grow high-value crops.
The model
Compliance first, written into the software.
Mila Innovations is the hub of the network: its software and its services. The rules that keep the network careful live in that software, not in good intentions.
A legal review that no screen can skip. A named approver for every batch. One ledger for every gram.
Understanding the law
What joining the network does, and does not, cover.
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Adults only, in private
Membership is for adults, in a private club. It is never open to the public.
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No buying or selling
Every plant belongs to a member and is grown on their behalf. Members share among themselves and contribute to what growing it cost. Nothing is sold, to members or to anyone else.
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Collected in person
Members collect at their own club, in person. There is no delivery.
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No promise of immunity
Joining the network is not legal advice and shields no one from the law. Every club, grower and member answers for their own conduct.
Three principles
What every club in the network stands on.
A closed door
Only verified adult members come in, and every one of them is on the record.
The plant is the member’s
Every plant belongs to a member, and how many are grown follows what members need, never what a market would take.
Free membership
No joining fee and no subscription, in every club in the network.
One network
Four parts, one record.
Clubs
Run the room
Admit members, keep the stock and share it, on kushOS.
Growers
Grow members’ plants
Apply, pass review and grow on members’ behalf, to the standard, on Rootstock.
Members
Belong to a club
Apply, set aside their share and collect it in person.
Mila Innovations
Keep it connected
Builds and runs the software, reviews every grower, and holds the network to its standard.
Our own ground first
We can’t bring a kasi grower up to a standard we don’t meet ourselves.
So the standard starts with us. Every plant tagged, every input logged, every gram on the record. We write our own software to keep that record: Rootstock for growers, kushOS for clubs.