The ongoing trade war is creating a unique opportunity for a new, high-tech farm in Canada. Haven Greens is a five-acre farm located in King City, Ontario, about an hour-and-a-half north of Toronto.
“We are a state-of-the-art, fully automated greenhouse for the cultivation of cut baby leaf greens,” said Eric Highfield, the company’s Chief Agricultural Officer. He’s responsible for managing the complex irrigation systems, lighting and machinery. The facility is a “perpetual motion” greenhouse, with conveyors that slowly move troughs full of peat moss the lettuce grows in from the germination side of the greenhouse to the harvest side over the course of 25 days.
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