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. WILMINGTON - Along the gravel lanes of rural Clinton County, you can see the past and present of Ohio agriculture.
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