From WDBJ:
After about a year, one of the largest high-tech greenhouses in North America is planting its first tomatoes in Dublin.
Just off Route 100 in Dublin is where Mexico-based Red Sun Farms is staking its claim in America. That starts with planting nearly 30,000 hydroponic tomato plants on some 12 acres.
"Fifteen thousand today and 15 thousand tomorrow,” said
John Secker, is Red Sun Farms’ master grower. Secker and his ''for now'' small crew are doing all that planting by hand.
"It's very technical. All the systems here are automated other than the plant care, that has to be done with people,” Secker said. “But all my irrigation, heating, ventilation we'll have energy screens in the winter, tried to reduce our energy costs. That's all automated."
Red Sun says its tomato plants, when ready, will supply customers in Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee.
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