Saturday, January 9, 2016

NatureFresh Farms: Delta, OH

To shift gears a little bit, I would like to tell you all about the greenhouse built very close to my mother's home town.

In Delta, Ohio Nature Fresh farms has built a 15 acre greenhouse! After doing some online research, I found out that they are starting with tomato production and are hoping to do so year round.
Link to more info: here

Of course I had to go check it out while in Ohio:

The greenhouse is more towards the left of where I am standing.
The buildings directly above my right hand are not part of the greenhouse facility. 


After getting a bit dark, the greenhouse is still visible! 

Contacting NatureFresh Farms

They are not giving any formal tours at this point in the year. I contacted them via their Facebook page and I was quite pleased with their response time. I got a reply through Facebook messages, here is our conversation:

Me: Hello, My name is Olivia Horning and I am a student at North Carolina State University studying Agricultural Education. I will be traveling to Ohio over winter break and am very interested in the newly build greenhouse in Delta, Ohio. Do they provide tours? Who would be the best individual to contact about this?
NatureFresh: Hi Olivia - Thanks for reaching out. Unfortunately, we are not conducting tours right now as the facility has just got up and running. We should be a in a better position later this year.As well, we will be looking to hire college students this summer to support our #GreenInTheCity tour with our mobile Greenhouse Education Center. Stay tuned to our Facebook page in January when the postings come out, maybe you might be interested. Thanks.
Me: I appreciate all the information, thank you for the update and I will stay tuned with the Facebook page about the upcoming job postings. Thanks again!

Extra Note: I added the link to the NatureFresh website article about the greenhouse education center in the above conversation, if anyone is interested!  

2 comments:

  1. Hi Olivia - Thanks for posting this! Since our brief FB chat a number of weeks ago, we have launched WeAreTheGrower.com which is a website dedicated to hiring students in the field of agriculture for summer jobs. Be sure you check it out asap to see the various positions we are hiring for this summer! Any questions, please let us know ---> marketing@naturefresh.ca

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