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Infinite Harvest
Infinite Harvest is an indoor hydroponic vertical farm located in Lakewood, Colorado. Through our unique growing system we provide fresh and nutritious produce year-round that is consistent in flavor and superior in quality, all grown with little environmental impact. We sell our products to local restaurants and food markets along the Colorado Front Range. Ask your favorite retailer if they offer our products and see what delicious foods can be made with our products.
Infinite Harvest and the Future of Food Production
The ability to grow food and feed people today is becoming more difficult every year. Diminishing farm land contends with erratic weather patterns, growing population and diminishing natural resources. Localized farming and urban farming are two solutions to feed local populations with fresh food while sustainable agriculture and organic farming are movements to combat environmental damage caused by large scale farming. Infinite Harvest hits the sweet spot between all these farming movements.
As an Indoor vertical farm, Infinite Harvest is able to grow produce all year long and in places where farming could never occur – in large cities and industrialized communities, in vast desserts and mountainous regions. By building vertical farms anywhere, we can feed people everywhere. Equally important, the environmental impact of Infinite Harvest’s vertical farm is significantly less than that of a traditional farm, even an organic farm.
Infinite Harvest’s year round growing cycles means seasonality is no longer an issue. Want to eat arugula in July or March, with Infinite Harvest that is no problem; neither is Thai Basil in December or Micro Greens in April or Bibb Lettuce in October. This is a game changer for restaurants and their customers. We provide local, farm fresh and high-quality produce at any time of the year because at Infinite Harvest, it’s always the growing season.
From The Denver Post (Joseph Rios):
Walk down the aisles of the 5,400-square-foot building, and you’re flanked by green, leafy plants growing on white tiers.
Infinite Harvest’s crops are grown in a controlled environment — lights, humidity, temperature, gases (think carbon dioxide), nutrients and fertigation, can all be regulated. Fertigation provides nutrients to plants and soil through an irrigation system.
“We can’t control the sun, but we can control the LED lights. The only thing unnatural (about our farming methods) is our ability to control the environment,” said founder Tommy Romano.
Infinite Harvest’s methods also differ in other ways from those used on many traditional farms, Romano said.
“We don’t use any pesticides or herbicides, no foliar sprays whatsoever. What you eat is 100 percent plant. We have a phrase that we pretty much use: We are ‘going beyond organic,’” Romano said.
“Going beyond organic” means producing crops in a way that is better for the environment, Romano said. He estimates Infinite Harvest uses 95 percent less water than a traditional farm with the same harvest.
“We bring the water right to the plants rather than letting it seep through the soil. We don’t spray, we don’t irrigate through sprinkler systems. We save a lot of water from that standpoint,” Romano said.
Infinite Harvest, which was 5 years old when it made Lakewood its home in 2014, is currently growing about 60,000 plants. Romano said it has the capacity to feed roughly 2 percent of the more than 140,000 people who live in Lakewood, based on average annual consumption rate. It’s owned by a group of shareholders interested in boosting efficiency in modern farming. One example of Infinite Harvest’s efficiency: It can grow and harvest year-round with no worry about weather damage.