The quality of our food matters.

At Pure Leaf Farms we grow food with no harmful chemicals, we don’t need to use chemicals because we create the perfect growing conditions for our plants. Fortified with nutrients and free of threat from pests or disease.

Tracking our produce from seed to market is an important part of what we do. In the past several years there have been many instances of dangerous contamination with field and greenhouse salads and vegetables. Our track and trace system along with the fertilizers and growing methods we use, reduce the risk of contamination to zero.

Canada relies heavily on imports from California and Mexico for salads, leafy greens and herbs. In recent times we have seen just how fragile our trade can be. Securing food that we cant grow in Canada and providing fresher and more nutritious food for Canadians is one of the reasons we get up in the morning at Pure Leaf Farms.

Our soil is liquid, it has more life and microbial diversity than you could find in any natural soils.  We are able to cultivate our soils by seeding our purified water with microbes and fungi and then feeding them with nutrients and oxygen to make them grow and stay healthy.

In a normal soil plant roots have to work hard to push through the soil to find the nuggets of nutrient deposits and the microbes to help them to absorb them.

Hydroponic agriculture uses high concentrations of nutrients in a liquid mixture to feed the plants, they need high concentrations because there are no microbes to help the plants absorb the nutrients.

Our soil has high quality organic compounds and nutrients and an abundance of microbes which conveniently flow to the plant roots and help the plant to get everything it needs to grow strong and healthy for us.

Lighting is one of the most exciting areas for us and plant scientists.  Did you know that by changing the spectrum of the light we give to plants we can change the color, shape, and nutrients in the plant?

Plants use some types of light more than others, this is important for us because we can tune our lights to give plants the the light they need to grow but not the light they don’t. This save us lots of energy which reduces our carbon footprint even further.

We are continuously working on our lighting science and technology to reduce our carbon footprint.

Our big brain manages helps us to find new and better ways to grow and manage our farms by finding and predicting trends in both our growing conditions and in the produce markets so that we can improve our growing quality and efficiency whilst ensuring that our product will have a strong demand. Reducing waste is just as important to us as growing efficiency.

Farming has been one of the most labor intensive industries in history and with less and less young people wanting to work in farming there is a lack of labor.

Our farms have a high level of automation which removes the menial and repetitive tasks so that we can focus our human resources on problem solving and creativity which people prefer doing.