Salad Days greenhouse expansion brings locally grown lettuce to Mississippi grocery stores
From WLBT — Mississippi is growing its own lettuce — and it’s a big deal.
Until recently, 95% of the lettuce eaten in Mississippi traveled more than 1,500 miles to get there. That changed this month when Salad Days Produce — a 65,000 sq. ft. greenhouse in Flora, MS — held its ribbon-cutting and officially put locally grown lettuce in grocery stores statewide for the first time.
Founded 14 years ago by Leigh Bailey and Jamie Redmond (former real estate professionals who took a leap), Salad Days started by supplying James Beard Award-winning chefs across the Southeast. Now, that same pesticide-free, root-on lettuce — with a 2-3 week fridge life — is available to Mississippi families at their local grocery store.
State leaders are calling it a blueprint for the future of food production in the region.
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