Fall Parking Lot Festival Featured Vendor: The Summers House

Description: The Summers House offers Locally Grown Herbicide & Pesticide Free Hydroponic Lettuce and Microgreens.

The Estate Store Fall Parking Lot Festival October 9, 16, 23, 2021.

Fall Parking Lot Festival Featured Vendor: The Summers House

SECO News: This is Adrian Hart with your Southeast Colorado News on seconews.org

I'm at The Estate Store for the Fall Parking Lot Festival, it's going on the 16th and the 23rd of October, and with me is Micah Summers. He's recently just started a business just off of Hwy 10. They've got a greenhouse they've built and they started Summers House. Do you want to tell us a little about your business Micah?

Summers: Yeah, so we started The Summers House. It's something that I've been kind of playing around with it on a hobby scale for a few years, hydroponics and growing good greens just for ourselves. We wanted to take it to a bigger scale and hopefully offer good greens here local to the valley.

We're hoping to keep most of it here locally. It'll have a longer shelf life and we're hoping to get lots of restaurants and grocery stores and different people, and we also have hours of operation where people can come right out to our house and buy certain days of the week. Our website is thesummershouse.com so people can even place orders online if they wanted to.

SECO News: So we're talking hydroponically grown, herbicide, pesticide free heads of lettuce and microgreens.

Summers: Yes, that's correct. So, yeah a very clean, controlled environment, green house growing, no pesticides, and we keep the root ball attached to the lettuces, so it should keep 2-3 weeks hopefully, maybe longer in the refrigerator.

SECO News: Get a locally grown product that's going to keep longer than what comes off the grocery store shelf. It's not going to have those pesticides and herbicides in it, a lot cleaner product, hydroponically grown and you guys are turning out a lot of heads of lettuce every week.

Summers: Yeah, we're at this point harvesting about 1,550 heads of lettuce a week, so it's a lot of lettuce.

SECO News: Wow. 

Summers: And the nice thing about hydroponics to is for this area there's not a lot of water, so it uses 90% less water than traditional farming methods. We did put in a reverse osmosis system through Innovative Water Technologies, and so yeah [we're] using a lot less water, and it's doing very well so far.

SECO News: Very efficient, very cool. Thank you for doing it Micah.

Summers: Alright. Thank You.

SECO News: Anything you want to say in closing? Contact info, again that website?

Summers: thesummershouse.com and like I said people can order right on the website and come and pick it up during our pickup hours, and I also do deliveries on Wednesdays for some of the local businesses in town, so I think that's about it.

SECO News: Thank you so much Micah.

Summers: Thank you.

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