Launching The Plenty Compton Farm: Quick Q&A With Nate Storey, Chief Science Officer.
Plenty: What is the most surprising thing you’ve learned or experienced in launching the Compton Farm??
Nate Storey : This farm is incredibly complex and has required input from hundreds of people over the years.? Managing that complexity isn’t surprising per se, but it is a challenge full of unexpected problems to solve. Credit goes to the team for solving every one of them.
Plenty: What did you imagine the first fully-scaled vertical farm to look like? How does the Compton farm measure up to your initial vision so many years ago??
Nate Storey : A lot of what we have matches up with what I had envisioned years ago. We keep moving in the right direction and we’ll continue to push productivity even as we expand into new crops from foods to ingredients to pharmaceuticals, the world is our oyster.
Plenty: How does it feel seeing the Compton farm open its doors for the first time? What are you most excited for the world to see??
Nate Storey : For almost two decades the perspective on this industry has been that it’s crazy, and I’m excited to work in a world that sees what we’re doing for what it is and recognizes the value and opportunity that we’ve built here. What we’ve accomplished in Compton is the future of agriculture.
Team building
1 年I had an opportunity to interview with you this company. I believe in all the things that Plenty is doing. Although I didn’t land a position with Plenty I still would buy their products in the store and support them from a different perspective. Keep up the good work Plenty.
CEO and Founder of Reyes Tech Services
1 年Nice to see this project in action???? I love it! Probably by far hands down my favorite project I had the pleasure to work on ????
Sr. Director @ Weber, Inc. | Business Administration, Sales Leadership
1 年Super cool tech. Is this the way of the future? Less water, less land required and quicker to market. I for one, would love to see this take off.
CO-founder at Kantikesht |Shipping container vertical Farm | Urban Farmer
1 年Nate the legend, I always like to learn about agricultur from him ????
CEO & Co-Founder at Rooted Robotics | Building Affordable Automation Solutions for Agriculture
1 年Was the project on schedule? If not what we're the challenges that caused delays?