Sustainability Initiatives

We don’t just talk about sustainability - we take action. Check out some of the ways we're reducing our environmental impact and creating a positive impact on our community.

Working Toward Zero Waste

We proudly support our sustainability goals. Here are a few active initiatives.

Robust Recycling
We recycle cardboard, metal, paper, glass, and accepted plastic products, and we recycle uncommon items—such as batteries and printer cartridges—wherever possible.
Proactive Prevention
We use tracking and forecasting tools to proactively identify food waste trends in order to alter our preparation accordingly.

Showcasing Our Local Partner Relationships

Ringling Culinary Group sources food from many local farmers, growers, and distributors. Our partners change throughout the year depending on seasonality and availability.

SunRite Farms (Sarasota, Florida)
SunRite Farms is a hydroponically grown greenhouse, growing twelve months out of the year in Myakka City, Florida growing four acres under plastic. Growing twelve month provides their customers with a steady supply high quality gourmet colored bell peppers―people have flown in from other states and countries to view how they do it.

Michael Urban, owner, and his team of Scouts, Consultants, and Specialists have a total of over 100 years of growing experience in Florida.
Brick Street Farms (St. Pete, Florida)
Brick Street Farms was started in 2016 by a husband-and-wife team, Brad and Shannon Doyle. Both are electrical engineers who took their passion for sustainability and energy conservation into the world of farming. Brick Street's Head Farmer, Cody Eicher, started his love of farming when he spent five years in the mushroom growing business and two years as a microgreens farm manager. The team at Brick Street Farms believes that the future of farming is about bringing large-scale indoor vertical farming production to the point of consumption.

By utilizing highly efficient indoor vertical farming technology with environmental sustainability at the forefront of everything they do, Brick Street is able to produce an extraordinary amount of certified non-GMO, chemical free and wash-free leafy greens, microgreens and strawberries with 90% less water and 30% less energy use. With their BSF Hub model, they are able to produce over 60 acres of product each month on less than a 1/3 acre city lot.

Brick Street also continually monitors all of the micro and macro nutrients for their plants, to ensure that they provide them with everything that they need to both survive and be as nutritionally dense as possible. They can take the same seed that would be grown in a field and grow it in half of the time that it would take a traditional field farming environment.