Recycling Our h2o
One of the coolest things we started doing about 12 years ago is recycling our wastewater. All of the wastewater from both restaurants and the ice cream room goes through a four stage process to organically break down the 'gray water' to water we can use to irrigate our fields and the Udders & Putters facility (both miniature golf courses & the driving range).
We operate an advanced facility called a 'wetlands filtration system' that aerates and stores the wastewater until we can use it. We recycle about 3,000,000 gallons of water each year at Young's!
Since we also operate our own water wells, pumps, and chlorination system, we in essence keep almost all the water we use here on the farm. We pump it out of the ground, treat it, use the water for drinking, washing dishes, cooking, etc. We capture it, treat it and use the water to irrigate the water on our fields.