Changing weather patterns-ranging from mega-drought in the Southwest of the U.S. fruit and vegetable imports rose to a record level in 2021 and has been projected to keep increasing in 2022. “We’re developing a tenured workforce and seeing benefits of promoting from within to help drive efficiency and quality from folks who have grown the business with us from the ground up.” The AppHarvest team has continued to enhance training with routine quality checks of crop care tasks, which facilitates quick retraining if needed.įor its third season of harvesting, the AppHarvest Morehead farm has further diversified its crop set adding snacking tomatoes sold under the Sunset brand as “Flavor Bombs ®” and “Sugar Bombs ®.” Morehead is growing roughly 50% beefsteak tomatoes, 25% Tomatoes on the Vine and 25% snacking tomatoes.Īccording to USDA reports, the value of U.S. “With the experience of two seasons of harvests, the Morehead farm is seeing significantly improved quality and yield, which largely can be attributed to task completion rates of crop care specialists meeting and sometimes exceeding 100% of goal,” said AppHarvest Founder & CEO Jonathan Webb. While finalizing construction, half the Richmond farm has been planted with 360,000 Campari and Maranice varieties of “Tomatoes on the Vine,” which are expected to start harvesting in January of 2023. AppHarvest is shipping strawberries under the “WOW ® Berries” brand from nearly 1 million strawberry plants and a variety of salad greens for the “Queen of Greens ®” washed-and-ready-to-eat salad packs.Īs AppHarvest works to quadruple its number of farms in 2022, the company continues construction on a fourth facility, a 60-acre farm in Richmond, Ky., that will grow tomatoes. Since that time, the company has opened two additional high-tech indoor farms-a 30-acre farm in Somerset, Ky., for strawberries and cucumbers and a 15-acre farm in Berea, Ky., for salad greens-both of which are currently shipping produce to top national grocery store chains, restaurants and food service outlets through its distributor, Mastronardi Produce. Martha Stewart, an AppHarvest board member, hosted a press conference for the company’s first harvest of tomatoes in January of 2021. (NASDAQ: APPH, APPHW), a sustainable food company, public benefit corporation and Certified B Corp building some of the world’s largest high-tech indoor farms to grow affordable, nutritious fruits and vegetables at scale while providing good jobs in Appalachia announced today it has kicked off the third season of harvesting ahead of schedule with commercial shipments of tomatoes from its 60-acre high-tech indoor farm in Morehead, Ky. 22, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - AppHarvest, Inc.
AppHarvest is now commercially shipping tomatoes from its third harvest season to top national grocers, food service outlets and restaurants through its distributor, Mastronardi Produce.Ĭompany expands crop set into new varietals of premium snacking tomatoesĬompany announces planting of 360,000 tomato plants at new 60-acre Richmond, Ky., farm as it works to quadruple number of farms in 2022 AppHarvest board member Martha Stewart teaching AppHarvest Founder & CEO Jonathan Webb her No-Knife Pasta recipe using fresh AppHarvest tomatoes grown in the company's 60-acre high-tech farm in Morehead, Ky.
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