Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Infinite Harvest Reinvents Vegetable Crop Production with Innovative Agricultural Systems


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Company Responds to Need for More Sustainable Methods of Food Production

Infinite Harvest, a Colorado-based company, today unveiled its plans to develop vertical farming as a sustainable source of competitively priced natural health food.

"Infinite Harvest is integrating technologies and developing new methods to make agriculture a more efficient, environmentally sound way of producing high quality vegetables for local markets,” commented Tommy Romano, Founder of Infinite Harvest. “The world is currently facing many food security issues and with substantial population growth, changing environments, and natural disasters, these issues will become more compounded.”

Food insecurity is on the increase, due to residential and commercial property development, adverse farming practices, and environmental and climate changes. Therefore, it will become imperative to find more efficient ways of producing fresh food, and Infinite Harvest is emerging as a leader in developing new systems based on vertical farming.

One of Infinite Harvest’s systems is a greenhouse facility, which is environmentally controlled and contained within a warehouse type structure. These efficient greenhouses can be constructed nearly everywhere in the world and can operate in almost any environment, in turn, producing fresh vegetables. Future plans will allow other crops to be grown in the system such as animal feeds and bio-fuel base products.

Built inside a recycled 40-foot shipping container, the company’s transportable greenhouse system can be shipped worldwide. Based on green building designs and using renewable energy systems, high-efficiency grow lighting, a semi-closed automatic irrigation and production system, the greenhouse container can grow crops year-round, regardless of the outside environment. Production source water, seeds, and water-soluble plant nutrients are all that is needed to begin crop production. This system also delivers the immediate capacity to begin farming in locations where traditional crop production is not viable due to climate, natural disaster, or lack of water and resources.

“Each greenhouse container operates as a controlled environment and can produce between 200 to 2,400 plants at one time, depending on the type of crop,” said Romano. “By using only 20% of the water used in traditional farming and implementing regenerative technologies, the container can operate for long periods on minimal water. This is an ideal solution where food production is difficult, especially in remote, desolate areas and disaster recovery zones.”

There are many adverse effects occurring on our agriculture, and most are a direct consequence of our own existence. We can no longer uphold the growing population without a sustainable solution. Re-engineering the science of vegetable crop production, Infinite Harvest provides solutions through its innovative agricultural systems, based on vertical farming. Infinite Harvest is a culmination of technology, understanding, and balance to produce healthier food in limitless amounts with nearly zero to no adverse impact to the environment, enabling crops to grow indefinitely while benefiting the environment. Seeing itself as a steward of the earth, Infinite Harvest strives to produce sustainable food crops, while benefiting our health, the soil we walk on, the water we drink, and the air we breathe. For more information, visit www.infinite-harvest.com.

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