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In Press/ Vertical Harvest

Social Enterprise Gets Vertical

BY RUSS STODDARD / MAR 16, 2017

Social enterprise is about going up, baby—up, up, up, not down—which is why we’re sharing a story about one of the smartest social enterprises we’ve come across recently, Vertical Harvest, along with a moving documentary that tells its tale.

Vertical Harvest is a new urban farm in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. As its name implies, this greenhouse uses a cool design that, like a plant, moves skyward for three stories as it reaches for the sun and maximizes its footprint on pricey resort real estate to grow and sell produce year-round for the community.

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