Photo Courtesy of Plenty
Ag tech company Plenty has announced the opening of its new Plenty Compton Farm, a sophisticated indoor vertical farm in Compton, California. The farm is designed to produce an estimated 4.5 million pounds of leafy greens per year within the confines of a single city block, making it 350 times more efficient than a traditional farm per acre.
The company signed a 10 year lease for a 95,000 square foot warehouse.
The Plenty Compton Farm is initially growing four varieties of leafy greens: Baby Arugula, Baby Kale, Crispy Lettuce, and Curly Baby Spinach, Plenty’s newest product that just launched out of Compton. It’s among the only vertically grown, pesticide-free spinach available in the world and the result of more than two years of development in Plenty’s advanced plant science research center.
“After investing nearly a decade into research and development, Plenty has cracked the code on a scalable platform for indoor farming,” said Plenty CEO Arama Kukutai. “With Plenty’s first commercial farm, we’re proving that our uniquely vertical indoor farms can deliver a reliable, year-round supply of fresh produce with positive unit economics. This is the first step in putting indoor-grown produce on a path to becoming a meaningful part of the global food supply, and we’re honored to be taking that step in our home state of California with the community of Compton.”
Plenty’s pesticide-free fresh leafy greens are now available through a variety of channels, including:
At Bristol Farms, Whole Foods Market stores in Northern California and local grocers in the city of Compton
As a new Walmart brand for indoor-grown, pesticide-free produce supplied by Plenty that has begun rolling out in Southern California Walmart stores
As a featured meal ingredient on all Singapore Airlines flights out of Los Angeles International Airport (LAX)
About Plenty:
Plenty is an American farming technology company that frees agriculture from the constraints of weather, seasons, time, distance, pests, natural disasters, and climate. The company’s plant scientists, engineers and farmers have developed its indoor vertical farming technology to manufacture nutrient-rich plants at scale with extraordinary flavor and industry-leading yields. Plenty farms deliver produce with zero pesticides, and are designed to use less than one percent the space of conventional agriculture and up to five percent less water. Plenty grows leafy greens at its flagship farm and headquarters in South San Francisco and is recently completed building the world’s highest-output, vertical, indoor farm in Compton, California.
