Initiatives

Green is Good

At AMES, we love growing things as much as you do. That’s why we’re committed to using sustainable practices in every phase of our business. From monitoring water use to measuring carbon output, we carefully track the environmental impact of our work and continually strive to improve it. Because good corporate stewardship means more green for all of us—more trees, cleaner water, healthier communities and healthier families.

Ames Sustainability

Since 2008, thanks to an increased and on-going recycling and sustainability focus and efforts to reduce our carbon footprint AMES has saved the following:

  • Over 33,628 trees
  • Over 169 acres of trees
  • Over 284,173 cubic yards of landfill
  • Over 950,972 gallons of water
  • Over 304,979 gallons of oil
  • Equivalent of removing over 901 cars from the road for a year