Water-efficient food production

More food from every drop of water.

Farmy is a water company that grows food. We measure, recover and reuse irrigation water so each cubic meter produces more. Today that water grows premium hydroponic blueberries. Tomorrow, any crop where water is the limit.

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4th
generation of fruit farmers in Sonora, Mexico
2023
growing hydroponically, with every season's water use on record
3
stages of water recovery in our design: treat, recycle, recover
1 metric
that runs the company: food produced per cubic meter of water

Our story

Four generations of farming taught us one thing: water decides.

Our family has grown fruit in Sonora's Valle del Yaqui since our great-grandfather's time. Over those years the land stayed the same. The water did not. Drought, falling aquifers and tighter allocations shaped every decision we made.

Farmy started from a simple question: what if we managed water the way a factory manages its most expensive input? Measure every liter, lose as little as possible, and reuse what the plants don't take.

Since 2023 we have tested that idea in our own trial lab and production site, with hydroponic growing, water treatment and recycling. The results convinced us to build a company around it.

The problem

Agriculture runs on water it rarely measures.

Farming is the world's largest user of freshwater. Much of it is applied without precise measurement, and what the crop doesn't use drains into the ground and is lost.

Water stress is no longer only a desert problem. Growing regions across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Asia face the same squeeze. The food producers who win the next decades will be the ones who produce the most with the least water.

Our approach

We treat water as a loop, not a line.

Conventional irrigation is a line: pump, apply, lose. Our system keeps water inside a measured loop for as long as possible.

  1. 01 · TREAT
    Clean water in
    Source water is purified before it reaches the plants, so it can be reused again and again.
  2. 02 · DELIVER
    Only what the plant needs
    Plants grow in pots of natural coconut fiber, fed drop by drop and adjusted to what they actually drink each day.
  3. 03 · RECYCLE
    Capture what drains
    Water that passes the roots is collected, filtered and disinfected, then returned to irrigation with its nutrients.
  4. 04 · RECOVER
    Waste less in purification
    The concentrate left over from purification is treated again to recover more usable water.
Measured end to end.
Every stage is metered and run by automated controls, so water use is a number we report, not an estimate. New technologies are proven in our trial lab before they reach production.

Impact

Built to be measured, reported and verified.

Our design target is to use roughly a third of the water that drip irrigation on soil needs for the same plants on the same site. We will publish metered results every season, and report them against the same baseline.

ENVIRONMENT
  • Freshwater withdrawn per kg of food
  • Share of drain water recycled
  • Fertilizer recovered through reuse
  • Energy per cubic meter delivered
  • Purification concentrate reduced and its destination
SOCIETY
  • Less pressure on shared aquifers in a water-stressed region
  • Skilled technical jobs in rural Sonora
  • Mechanized harvest that reduces reliance on scarce, seasonal hand labor
GOVERNANCE
  • Independent laboratory water testing
  • Per-season public water reporting
  • Modeled figures labeled as modeled until metered data replaces them
  • Each project in its own dedicated investment vehicle
CONTRIBUTES TO SDG 6 · Clean water SDG 2 · Zero hunger SDG 12 · Responsible production

Today's crop · Blueberries

Blueberries are our crop today, not our limit.

We choose crops by one test: which returns the most value per cubic meter of water. Today that is premium hydroponic blueberries, harvested February to April when the US market is short of fruit.

We trial around a dozen genetics in our lab and have a signed letter of intent with a leading US berry marketer. The same water system is designed to grow other high-value crops as markets change.

Feb–Apr
Early-season harvest window
19 mm+
Premium fruit size
11 Brix+
Eating quality
US
Fresh-market destination

Labor risk

Water is one scarce input. Harvest labor is the other.

Fresh blueberries are among the most labor-intensive crops to pick, and farm labor is getting scarcer and more expensive across North America. For many growers, harvest crews are now the biggest single risk to a season.

Farmy designs its fields around the Kokan mechanical harvester from day one: row spacing, plant training and a movable shade structure that clears the way at harvest. The result is fewer pickers per hectare, a harvest that depends less on crew availability, and more predictable costs.

Lower labor exposure
Machine-assisted picking replaces much of the seasonal hand crew.
Harvest on schedule
Fruit is picked when it is ready, not when a crew is available, protecting the early-season price window.
Better jobs
Fewer, year-round technical roles running machines and water systems.

Roadmap

From one farm to a repeatable model.

  1. 2023–2026 · DONE
    Prove it
    Hydroponic seasons, trial lab, water treatment and fruit quality on record.
  2. NOW · RAISING
    Build Project 1
    A 20-hectare commercial site with full water recycling. Planting May 2028.
  3. 2029 · FIRST HARVEST
    Report it
    First commercial harvest and the first full season of metered water results.
  4. NEXT
    Replicate it
    New projects, and new crops, wherever water is the constraint on food.

Invest & partner

Help us grow more food with less water.

We are raising capital for Project 1 and welcome impact, ESG, water-tech and agtech investors, as well as fresh-market buyers.

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