Inside the building, kale, spinach and a variety of lettuces - romaine, scarlet, cristabel and others -grow on Styrofoam boards floating in ponds that are 50 feet wide and 325 feet long. "This is not the agriculture I grew up with." Wilmington Mayor John Stanforth, a Clinton County native, pondered the BrightFarms greenhouse. The $10 million project is the fourth greenhouse built by BrightFarms, a New York company that also operates greenhouses near Chicago, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. Rolling green fields of soybeans and corn stretch to the horizon.Ī 170,000-square-foot greenhouse, wrapped in green metal siding and topped with hundreds of glass panels, squats beside a cornfield across from the Wilmington Air Park. "We just finished another project at Bushel Boy Farms in Minnesota for Dutch greenhouse builder VB Group and after this project our crews will head to the West Coast to start building another large greenhouse for KUBO in California.WILMINGTON - Along the gravel lanes of rural Clinton County, you can see the past and present of Ohio agriculture. "We have been very busy over here lately", said Mitchell van der Drift of Mountain High. Over the past few years they were responsible for the construction for leading growers like SunSelect, Houweling's, Windset Farms, EuroFresh and Village Farms. and many companies rely on their services, specialized machinery and skilled people. The company can be considered as the largest subcontractor for greenhouse construction in the U.S. It is just one of the many projects they have realized in the United States over the last couple of years. Mountain High's crew is responsible for the foundation, building, glazing and screening at this project. The Wapakoneta greenhouse is their first expansion into the U.S, and is designed for year round production of tomatoes. Golden Fresh Farms currently operates 100 acres of greenhouse facilities in Kingsville, Ontario. The project, built for Canadian turnkey greenhouse provider Thermo Energy Systems Inc, is the first phase of the 200 acre proposed project. Subcontractor Mountain High recently started with the construction of the 77,000 m2 greenhouse of Golden Fresh Farms in Wapakoneta, Ohio.
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