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A new breed of hydroponic farm, huge and high-tech, is popping up in indoor spaces all over America, drawing celebrity investors and critics. By Kim Severson July 6, 2021 MOREHEAD, Ky. — In this pretty town on the edge of coal country, a high-tech greenhouse so large it could cover 50 football fields glows with the […]

Every day, technology transforms the way our food is grown, harvested, packaged, delivered, and consumed. But it can be hard to navigate this emerging new world. The PMA Takes On Tech podcast provides a look at how technology and innovation are supporting the fresh produce and floral industries. Hosted by Vonnie Estes, vice president of […]

Kalera, one of 2020’s biggest headline makers in vertical farming, has even bigger plans for its still-under-construction nationwide network, and there’s nothing that can slow it down. Kalera, based in Orlando, Florida, is taking the local indoor farming concept and stretching it from coast to coast during a nationwide pandemic. This all while turning out […]

Kalera, one of the fastest-growing U.S. vertical farming companies in the world and a leader in plant science for producing high-quality produce in controlled environments, today celebrated their first harvest in their Atlanta-area facility. Its largest farm to date — and the largest vertical farm in the Southeastern United States — the facility is 77 […]

[et_pb_section][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text] In the 2015 Matt Damon movie The Martian, based on Andy Weir’s 2011 novel of the same name, an astronaut awaiting rescue on Mars subsists for months on potatoes he grows in his habitat. “I think I read [the book] in three nights,” says Neil Mattson, associate professor at the School of Integrative […]

Sonny Perdue, former U.S. Agriculture Secretary and governor of Georgia, will join vertical farming company Kalera’s board of directors. Perdue also has personally invested in the company in the latest financing round, according to a news release. Perdue’s appointment to the Board follows Kalera’s acquisition of Vindara Inc., described in the release as the first […]

Vertical farming company Kalera announced this week it has acquired Vindara, a company developing seeds specifically for the indoor vertical farming environment and other controlled environment agriculture methods. With this acquisition, Kalera says it can increase both crop yield and the speed of growth cycles in its current and future facilities. Kalera currently has two […]

Kalera (Euronext Growth Oslo ticker KAL, Bloomberg: KSLLF), one of the fastest-growing and largest vertical farming companies in the world and a leader in plant science for producing high-quality produce in controlled environments, today announced the appointment of Maria Sastre to its Board of Directors. A seasoned executive with experience in the food, travel, and […]

Tech-driven vertical farming company Kalera (Euronext Growth Oslo ticker KAL, Bloomberg: KSLLF), today announced it will open a facility in Honolulu, Hawaii in 2021. Kalera’s Hawaiian location will be the Company’s eighth facility announced, making it one of the fastest growing vertical farming companies in the United States. It will also be the largest vertical […]

A Florida company plans to build a “vertical farm” in Columbus, part of the company’s effort to become one of the nation’s largest operators of indoor, year-round farms. Kalera, based in Orlando, plans to build the farm next year on London-Groveport Road near Rickenbacker Airport, said company CEO Daniel Malechuk. The 75,000-square-foot facility is expected […]