Greenhouse growers
Greenhouse growers currently do everything they can to assure the public their product is not the source of the outbreak.
Responses include comments from KingsOne, Gotham Greens, Little Leaf Farms, Adrina Farms, Planted Detroit and more.
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Jay Willmot knows what he does not like and “bad lettuce” tops the list, something he developed a distaste for two decades ago during his student days at Dalhousie University in Halifax.
For a young commerce major living on his own and looking to eat somewhat healthily, disappointment was reliably found in grocery store produce sections that were, and remain, dominated by lettuce imports, typically grown beneath the hot, California sun in a region of the United States food industry professionals refer to as the “salad bowl.”
Willmot’s longstanding beef with such lettuce will ring a bell among Canadian salad lovers who, when they get home from the grocery store with, say, a tub of leafy California greens, crack the cellophane packaging and register a faint, unmistakable whiff of rot. Dig deeper and camouflaged somewhere within it will be a slimy leaf, if not an entire clump of spoiled greens.
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.
As reported by Jennifer Strailey, The Packer
For Paul Sellew, founder and CEO of Little Leaf Farms, innovation isn’t about chasing the next tech play. It’s about something far more grounded: building a better system. While some in the indoor farming space have prioritized rapid growth, Sellew has steered Little Leaf toward a more disciplined model, proving the key to a sustainable food future lies in perfecting the fundamentals of how we grow, harvest and distribute every little leaf.
Discipline is critical in the indoor ag space, which has grappled with challenges from high energy costs to difficulty scaling to pests to intense market competition. All the while, Little Leaf Farms has quietly built a revolution to become North America’s top producer of indoor-grown lettuce.
The Devens, Mass.-based greenhouse grower seems to have cracked the code on scaling sustainability — earning a spot on Fast Company’s 2026 World’s Most Innovative Companies list and capturing over 50% of the indoor leafy green market in the process.