Meet Clayton Mooney, the drive-through salad farmer
This entrepreneurial farmer has returned to his Iowa roots in a unique way.
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This entrepreneurial farmer has returned to his Iowa roots in a unique way.
Salad greens are grown onsite inside Clayton Farms Salads restaurant. The company plans to open more sites in the future.
Indoor farming pioneer Clayton Farms has made a splash with subscribers who want just-harvested greens year-round.
Des Moines Register Forget Iowa's rich and abundant soil. If the future is growing lettuce vertically indoors, then the future is now. Tucked in a spacious room at the Iowa State University Research Park are walls upon walls of lettuce hugging shelves upon shelves of microgreens and tomato plants. The indoor farm, called Nebullam, offers a startup subscription service for free delivery of fresh-grown produce to residents' doorsteps throughout the Ames and Des Moines metros. Co-founder Clayton Mooney knows that feeding hundreds of people with walls of lettuce grown indoors seems improb...