BELTON â A massive indoor lettuce farm in Belton is about to get much larger.
TrueHarvest Farms, a 54,000-square-foot hydroponic greenhouse, is planning a 3.5-acre indoor addition that will more than quadruple annual production.
âWeâre going to break ground on the new greenhouse in July,â said Marshall McDaniel, one of the owners of the farm. âWe will be able grow about 8 million heads of lettuce every year.â
Thatâs a lot of salad!
All of the produce is grown hydroponically and free of pesticides.
The expansion will allow TrueHarvest to expand its product line and reach new customers through service contracts and supermarkets.
by Katie Peikes, Harvest Public Media
As of early February, Iowa farmer Kelly Garrett has made about 115,000 off of the carbon that his plants remove from the air. (Photo by Katie Peikes, Harvest Public Media)
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Katie Peikes, Harvest Public Media
March 1, 2021 - 5:45am
There’s been a lot of hype around how farmers can make money from selling the carbon their plants naturally remove from the air, but there are still questions about how much of a difference these markets can make in reducing greenhouse gases.
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As of early February, Iowa farmer Kelly Garrett has made about 115,000 off of the carbon that his plants remove from the air.
There’s been a lot of hype around how farmers can make money from selling the carbon their plants naturally remove from the air, but there are still questions about how much of a difference these markets can make in reducing greenhouse gases.
Kelly Garrett is experimenting with carbon markets on his farm in western Iowa’s Crawford County. As of early February, he’s made $115,000. Most of that money came from Canadian e-commerce giant Shopify, which bought 5,000 carbon credits from Garrett.
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