ABOUT | equatorialfeeds

GROWING A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE

what do we do?

Demand for meat is immense, destructive and growing. As our demands increase so do our waste outputs.

Equatorial Feeds develops technologies that link wasteful outputs from our economy back into productive systems:

40%

of food in the United States goes uneaten!

We help dispose of excess food waste for a fee below standard tippage.

30%

of the ice free surface of the earth is used to grow food for livestock!

We use our modular digester to convert unused food into protein meal for feeds.

70%

increase in meat demand is projected by 2050, according to the UN FAO.

We sell our high quality sustainable protein meal to farmers and agriculture supply distributors cheaper than other protein meals.

Who are we?

Bill's background is based in commercial aquaculture with >30yrs; farming fish, designing fish rearing systems, and developing novel fish feeds to be used in nutrient limited areas of the world. Prior to founding EQF Bill was director of Aquaculture Engineering Division at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole MA., During his 25 years as Aquaculture Engineer at the MBL Bill founded The Sustainable Aquaculture Initiative (SAI) - a program that has helped hundreds of small rural communities throughout the world (Haiti, Uganda, Cambodia, USA) develop feed/food production systems.

Co-Founder

Operations

WILLIAM MEBANE

Tracy is our scientific backbone. She has her masters from Cornell University and is currently pursing a PHD from Rutgers. Tracy combines her passion for environmental stewardship with proven skills and knowledge in scientific research to continuously refine our processes.

Co-Founder

Research & Development

TRACY YOUNGSTER PhD

Jack is a public health professional with a passion for sustainable development and entrepreneurship. He is obsessed with solving resource scarcity as a root cause of societal inequity. He is a graduate of Cornell University where he studied biological sciences and acquired a business minor for the life-sciences. He is focusing his systems building experience onto building sustainable solutions to gaps in society's food and waste systems.

Co-Founder

Business Development

JACK HILDICK-SMITH

Equatorial feeds is an eclectic bunch. Our collective expertise covers microbiology, public health, soil science, stonework, agriculture, plumbing, business development, marine biology, aquaculture, social justice, and professional tinkering. We are a group united by an inherent sense of responsibility for environmental stewardship, and an understanding that environmental solutions need to be actual solutions and not just sustainable alternatives.

Our diverse backgrounds enable us to make links across industries and develop partnerships that most firms would not be able to identify. That is why we provide services to municipalities and industries while developing products to cut costs and impacts for businesses.