sustainability.
Renewable Energy
Our Hybrid Indoor Cultivation Facility™ will be drawing close to 50% of its power through wind and solar renewable energy sources.
CO2 Capture and Recycling
Plants use CO2, so harnessing the emission of this greenhouse gas and recycling it for the plant’s benefit was a logical next step to fit a solution into our sustainability initiatives. We capture 100% of the CO2 emitted from our back-up natural gas generator, recycle it, remove traces of ethanol and introduce it into our grow operations for our plants to use in our Hybrid Indoor Cultivation Facility™.
Mechanical Condensation and Water Collection
The mechanical system in our Hybrid Indoor Cultivation Facility™ is comprised of twelve, 35-ton Aeon mechanical units. This system has the capability of producing over 700 tons of cooling capacity to our entire facility and will produce a significant amount of water condensation, so we incorporate technology to capture 100% of this water and re-introduce it into our HVAC system.
Water and Nutrient Use Efficiency
By using automated fertigation technology throughout our Hybrid Indoor Cultivation Facility™, we see significant increases in both water and nutrient use efficiencies. When compared to traditional and conventional hand watering and nutrient feeding, this technology will decrease both our water use and nutrient use by nearly 60%.
Wastewater Phytoremediation
Most facilities that properly handle cultivation wastewater engage a third party water remediation company to pump, transport and treat contaminated wastewater increasing the carbon footprint of a cultivation facility through the CO2 emissions caused by the trucks transporting the wastewater. We treat our wastewater through a phytoremediation system, which utilizes a series of bio-columns that have Sahara grass and other beneficial plants growing in them that absorb the contaminants and ultimately treat the water so that it is remediated to acceptable levels and recycled back into our agricultural water system.
Harnessing the Power of the Sun
Our Hybrid Indoor Cultivation Facility™ is engineered to use the sun as the primary source of light. Using the light from the sun as our primary source of light significantly reduces our energy use over the course of the year making our cultivation operation much more sustainable than traditional indoor facilities.
