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Vertical Harvest Maine plans to break ground on a 70,000 square foot, four-story farm in downtown Westbrook to supply up to one million pounds of local produce per year.
Westbrook, Maine, May 18, 2021 Sodexo, a global food service provider and one of Maine’s largest employers, today announced that it will source as much as 80-percent of its lettuce products from Vertical Harvest Maine, the State’s newest hydroponic urban farm, and the first vertical greenhouse in the United States. The produce will be served at all fourteen Sodexo partners, including collegiate campuses from Fort Kent to South Portland. Earlier this year, Sodexo pledged to spend at least $1M at local Maine farms and food producers in 2021.
French food services and facilities management company Sodexo, which employs 760 people in Maine, on Monday unveiled plans to invest at least $1 million in the state s food economy during 2021.
The company said it will do so in the form of local food purchases via more than 130 existing partnerships with farms, food producers and fisheries.
Sodexo, a Fortune 500 company with a $21 million payroll in Maine, serves 13,000 meals daily at 14 colleges and hospitals statewide, including Central Maine Medical Center, the University of Southern Maine and Southern Maine Community College.
Sodexo noted that Maine has 7,600 farms, more than any other New England state, 40% of which are owned by Mainers under age 34.