![]() ![]() "It lights up my bedroom enough that it looks like there's a light on. "We were told it would look like the glow from a normal factory or industrial area," he said. RESIDENT CONCERN John Wehner, who lives about a mile and a half north of the farm, said the light permeates through his bedroom window and has woken him in up in the early hours of the morning. The lights are not in operation 24 hours a day, the company said.ĥ. LIGHTING The company said Golden Fresh uses lights at the facility beginning in the early morning until about 4 p.m., and the lights make it possible to ensure plant growth during cloudy days and winter months. » RELATED: 5 things to know about Ohio’s largest greenhouse farmĤ. Two more greenhouses are planned by 2018 with construction of the second one beginning this year. This first phase of the project will create 82 full-time jobs - 42 year-round and 40 seasonal - with an annual payroll of $2.9 million. ECONOMIC IMPACT The completed facility would create 400 jobs with an annual payroll of $15 million. "We just finished another project at Bushel Boy Farms in Minnesota for Dutch greenhouse builder VB Group and after this project our crews will head to the West Coast to start building another large greenhouse for KUBO in California.3. A high-tech hydroponic greenhouse operation that could be North America’s largest when fully built is now growing more than 200,000 tomatoes plants in Wapakoneta.Golden Fresh Farms, a Canadian-based division of Red Sun Farms, opened its 22. "We have been very busy over here lately", said Mitchell van der Drift of Mountain High. Over the past few years they were responsible for the construction for leading growers like SunSelect, Houweling's, Windset Farms, EuroFresh and Village Farms. and many companies rely on their services, specialized machinery and skilled people. The company can be considered as the largest subcontractor for greenhouse construction in the U.S. It is just one of the many projects they have realized in the United States over the last couple of years. Mountain High's crew is responsible for the foundation, building, glazing and screening at this project. ![]() The Wapakoneta greenhouse is their first expansion into the U.S, and is designed for year round production of tomatoes. Golden Fresh Farms currently operates 100 acres of greenhouse facilities in Kingsville, Ontario. The project, built for Canadian turnkey greenhouse provider Thermo Energy Systems Inc, is the first phase of the 200 acre proposed project. Subcontractor Mountain High recently started with the construction of the 77,000 m2 greenhouse of Golden Fresh Farms in Wapakoneta, Ohio. ![]()
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