Living Greens Farm ups Ante With Innovative Vertical Expansion

Posted by Greenhouse Grower Staff|March 10, 2022

Living Greens Farm, one of the largest indoor vertical aeroponic farms in the U.S., announced it is expanding its Midwest operations with the addition of a new innovative indoor facility in Muncie, IN, for growing and processing a variety of better tasting leafy green product offerings.

The all-new facility will open in early 2023 and will occupy a 200,000 square foot industrial building built in 2015, but yet to be occupied. The building will be turned into a state-of-the-art, vertical, aeroponic farm ultimately employing about 120 people. It will feature automation that helps growers realize the inherent natural potential of the crops grown there, while seeding, transplanting, harvesting, processing, and packaging crops in an efficient, high-speed manner. It is expected to produce the equivalent of two million acres of farmland.

According to the company, once the new indoor farm is fully constructed, it will have the capacity to grow and harvest five million pounds of leafy greens each year without the use of pesticides. Additionally, the advanced farming system can produce these nutrient-rich greens using significantly less water than traditional farming methods, saving 103 million gallons per year. This will include a wide variety of great-tasting leafy greens packaged into ready-to-eat bagged greens and salad kits. The Muncie facility will provide fresh leafy greens, from harvest to shelf within 24 hours, to markets as far east as Pittsburgh, north as Detroit, Milwaukee, Kansas City, and the Twin Cities, and south to Nashville and Charlotte, and all markets in between.

“The Muncie facility is in an ideal location to take a significant step in our national geographical expansion,” says George Pastrana, CEO of Living Greens Farm. “It will help us to better supply our current retail partners, such as Walmart, Whole Foods, HyVee, UNFI, and others, as well as allow expansion into additional leading retail and wholesale customers across the Midwest and Midsouth.”