LOWER MAKEFIELD – A new concept that has the potential to freshen up the food supply chain across the nation is taking root here in Bucks County.
On March 7, New York-based BrightFarms officially opened its first designed, built and operated greenhouse in the nation on a small, five acre corner of the sprawling Patterson Farm just a few hundred feet off of Stony Hill Road and visible from Interstate 95
Inside the modest 56,000 square foot greenhouse, built to supply local grocery stores with freshly grown produce, rows of tables are thick with tomato plants, lettuces and herbs.
“People today want to know where their food is coming from. When you drive down this street to McCaffrey’s Market and buy BrightFarms’ lettuces, tomatoes and herbs, you’re not going to wonder where your food came from. It’s grown right here in this building,” said BrightFarms’ CEO Paul Lightfoot.
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