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ORLANDO, Fla., December 6, 2022 Headquartered in Orlando, Florida, and operating 4 vertical farming facilities across the United States, Kalera uses technology to ensure that more people around the world have access to the freshest, most nutritious, and cleanest lettuce and leafy greens available. Kalera collaborated with Philips Horticulture LED solutions to equip their new […]

By Elizabeth Ruiz, The List Walking around Kalera’s vertical farm facility in Aurora, Colorado, feels like you’re in a sci-fi movie. Purple LED lights illuminate the rows upon rows of leafy greens. Read Full Article

By Reshma Kapadia, Barron’s Scorching heat and drought shriveling up crops in the Midwest and eastern Africa. A continued pandemic. War in Ukraine. Rarely has the world seen such a confluence of disasters, threatening the ability of nations to feed the hungry, this year and beyond. Read Full Article

Kalera was featured in Food & Nutrition Magazine’s June 2022 Food Trends section Read Full Feature

By Judith Kohler, The Denver Post The big, blocky building just north of Interstate 70 looks like all the other big, blocky buildings along a commercial and industrial strip in Aurora. Visitors have to scrub up, put on masks, hair nets and lab coats and walk on an antimicrobial mat before entering a massive clean […]

Rosemont, Ill.-based US Foods Holding Corp. will source greens for its foodservice operators from Orlando, Fla.-based Kalera, a hydroponic indoor vertical farming company — the largest vertical farming partnership for US Foods to date. The agreement will expand the portfolio of local farms that US Foods is sourcing from in various markets for its Serve […]

AURORA (KDVR) — A Florida-based vertical farming company called Kalera just opened the largest vertical farm in Colorado. It looks like something out of a James Bond movie. But it is not. “This is vertical farming,” said Aric Nissen, the chief marketing officer for Kalera. “Vertical farming is growing food up in stacks.” Watch Segment

Kalera the new farm is located in Aurora is now providing Coloradoans clean greens that are grown sustainably. Using recycled water, Kalera uses 95% less water than traditional farms, which is great for our state that is experiencing severe drought. Aric Nissen, CMO with Kalera says that indoor vertical farming does not require the use of […]

National Vertical Farming Partnership for US Foods Brings Consistent Year-Round Availability of High-Quality Leafy Greens to Customers ROSEMONT, Ill.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–US Foods Holding Corp. (NYSE: USFD) today announced a strategic agreement with Kalera®, one of the world’s leading hydroponic indoor vertical farming companies. This is US Foods’ largest vertical farming relationship to date. The agreement underscores US Foods’ […]