Since 2010, sustainability has been engineered into how we operate — from the sun that powers our plant to the water we pull back out of the tomato itself. For a grower-owned company, protecting the land isn't a program. It's the whole point.
When the owners of a company are also the farmers who work the soil and depend on the water, sustainability stops being a marketing line and becomes simple self-interest. We've been formalizing that instinct since 2010, engineering efficiency and conservation into every part of the operation.
The result is a business that generates its own clean power, reclaims its own water, protects habitat on its own land, and sends nothing to the landfill — all while producing the premium tomatoes we're known for.
A ripe tomato is mostly water. Through the Botanical Water Partnership — the first project of its kind in North America — Ingomar captures the water released during processing and turns it into a resource instead of a loss.
It's a quietly radical idea: the same crop that becomes premium paste also yields clean water for potable use and groundwater recharge, easing pressure on California's aquifers during drought.
Processing water captured and purified for beneficial use.
Reclaimed water helps replenish local aquifers.
Less reliance on groundwater pumping, season to season.
Rather than treat water reclamation as a purely industrial process, Ingomar built an on-site artificial marsh that doubles as living habitat. It recycles water and reduces groundwater pumping — and along the way, it became home to a small ecosystem.
Every one of these initiatives traces back to the same root: Ingomar is owned by the farming families who work this land. When the people making the decisions are the ones who'll farm here for the next generation, sustainability isn't a cost center — it's how you stay in business for another 40 years.
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