The city of Bainbridge Island signed a 21-year lease earlier this month with Mark Taylor and Tracy Lang of Vireo Farms, allowing them to build a hydroponic agriculture facility on publicly owned farmland, Friends of the Farms recently announced. When completed, Vireo Farm will be an 1,800-square-foot facility capable of housing 8,500 plants. Hydroponics is…
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Bainbridge couple plans Kitsap’s first commercial hydroponic farm
March 21, 2019 The Future of Farming is on Bainbridge Island Vireo Farm brings Hydroponic Agriculture to Kitsap County Heather Burger February 1, 2019Friends of the Farms has just signed a 21 year lease with Mark Taylor and Tracy Lang of Vireo Farms, allowing them to build a hydroponic farming facility on publicly owned farmland…
The Future of Farming is on Bainbridge Island Vireo Farm brings Hydroponic Agriculture to Kitsap County
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND – It was once a sandpit on a family farm. Now it’s a flat, grassy field used as an occasional parking lot and a spot for dogs to run. Soon it’ll be a farm churning out loads of fresh produce for islanders to enjoy. The family dog, Bandit, flashes around the field, chasing…