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Indoor farms bloom despite challenges

(17 Sep 2023) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS Cleburne, Texas - 24 August 2023 1. Detail of lettuce in an indoor farm, focus pull to background workers 2. Detail of lettuce plants 3. Wide of worker placing plants in hydroponic system 4. Detail of worker placing plant in hydroponic system 5. SOUNDBITE (English) Aaron Fields, Vice President of Agriculture, Eden Green Technology: “We try to use every part of nature and the environment outside that we can to our benefit, but by also giving these plants the optimal grow environment 24/7, 365 days a year. We do that at Eden Green by controlling the actual climate around the plant and focusing on what the plant needs all the time, during day, during night, how we can supplement that in the summer and the winter. We’re actually trying to be seasonally agnostic, and give this plant the best growing conditions year-round.” 6. Wide of Eden Green greenhouses 7. Detail of Eden Green sign 8. SOUNDBITE (English) Jacob Portillo, grower, Eden Green Technology: “The fact that other people are failing and other people are succeeding, that’s going to happen in any industry you go to, but specifically for us I think that, especially as sustainable as we’re trying to be, the sustainable competitors are going to start winning.” ASSOCIATED PRESS Georgetown, Kentucky - 15 August 2023 9. Detail of microgreens growing under artificial light 10. Wide of worker in field at Elmwood Stock Farm 11. Medium of worker weighing down a hoop house 12. Various of Tom Kimmerer inside an outdoor greenhouse 13. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Kimmerer, plant physiologist: “This farm is supporting those trees, and those patches of forest, and these weeds and all the plants and animals that are in - sorry, I shouldn’t have called them weeds - these meadows. And you know, these hawks and other birds flying overhead. And you’re not going to find that in an indoor farm. An indoor farm doesn’t have any of those benefits.” 14. Various of native plants on farm 15. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Kimmerer, plant physiologist: “We are missing out on enough investment money going to more traditional farming. There’s a huge opportunity to invest in traditional farming to increase productivity, reduce the carbon footprint of farming and increase the nutritional quality.” 16. Wide of tomato plants inside greenhouse 17. Detail of tomato 18. Detail of bugs on a tomato plant 19. Various of lettuce growing outdoors 20. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Kimmerer, plant physiologist: “That’s the kind of investment that we should be looking to, is practical solutions to the problems of real farming, not sort of making up some new kind of farming.” ASSOCIATED PRESS Cleburne, Texas - 24 August 2023 21. Detail of lettuce in hydroponic system 22. Various of worker harvesting lettuce from indoor farm 23. SOUNDBITE (English) Jacob Portillo, grower, Eden Green Technology: “Controlled environment agriculture is coming into a space that’s this is necessary now. We’ve come to a point of necessity that traditional ag is not the most convenient or environmentally-friendly way to grow things on a large scale and produce them as quickly as we need them.” 24. Wide of worker harvesting lettuce at an indoor farm 25. Detail of lettuce inside hydroponic system 26. SOUNDBITE (English) Jacob Portillo, grower, Eden Green Technology: “We are just trying to supplement something that we recognize is already an issue. So I think, that moving forward that sustainability has to be a conversation regardless of where we’re growing our food.” 27. Various of lettuce growing in indoor farm STORYLINE: Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...