It is not easy being green these days ?a especially when you share space with more than 3 million people. And yet, one California business is making it its business to perform just that.
BP Gardens, a subsidiary of GreenGro Technologies (OTC: GNRH), an Anaheim-based eco-friendly technology company, is taken local farming within a crowded urban environment to a completely level by designing vertical gardens. Its hope, says CEO James Haas, is to provide communities, restaurants, and grocers with locally grown, pesticide-free fruits and vegetables.
BP Gardens began as a seed of your idea from Haas, who says, thinking ended up being use very little water as well as energy as possible, while still yielding fresh produce and herbs for purchasers.
In accordance with Haas, you will see two separate locations and growing methods. BP Gardens Buena Park currently sits on 4.5 acres in Anaheim, California, and features a 50,000-seat full hydroponic grow system, while its sister company, BP Lincoln Gardens in northern California, employs zero-waste, 80 % water-saving aquaponics solution having a 40,000-seat capacity.
With California consistently facing severe droughts, methods may help alter the approach we take to grow,modernizing its methods to be sustainable in the future, says Haas.
The Buena Park location has currently completed its construction and it has planted its first crops, that's ideal for leafy greens, while Lincoln is incorporated in the process of installing floating race-ways and introducing fish in preparation because of its first crops.
This location will target the growth of heavy greens and Sacramento Perch due to the usage. Between the two locations, Haas said he anticipates growing 45,000 heads of lettuce per month.
Along with finding a method to combine technology and food production, while reducing the company own carbon footprint, Haas has additionally found a niche market in the medicinal marijuana industry. While GreenGro doesn't have fun with the sale of medical cannabis, Haas said GreenGro equipment and advanced hydroponic systems benefit that industry as well.
Although Haas estimates that about Sixty percent of his customers buy his gardening equipment to grow medicinal marijuana, he states he remains focused on his BP Gardens projects, and isn? happy to stop with all the California market, but believes he is able to take his idea worldwide.
BP Gardens desire to go big, says Haas. We desire to be the cause for food and not have to contain it travel, and save our planet.
