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AppHarvest Plants First Tomato Crop with Harvest Expected in Grocery Stores Early Next Year

Posted on 5 years ago


AppHarvest Plants First Tomato Crop with Harvest Expected in Grocery Stores Early Next Year

MOREHEAD, Ky.— AppHarvest announced it has planted its first tomato crop at the company’s high-tech controlled environment agriculture facility in Morehead.

AppHarvest’s tomatoes are scheduled to be in grocery stores in the first quarter of 2021, and the company reaffirms its expectations to begin recognizing revenues at that time.

“Today is an important milestone for AppHarvest as we seek to build a more resilient American food system from within Appalachia,” said AppHarvest Founder & CEO Jonathan Webb. “Our team has built one of the world’s largest and most technologically advanced indoor farms, which means AppHarvest’s tomatoes soon will be on store shelves and in American homes. This is just the first step for us. To transform agriculture in America, we need to do this on a large scale, and we’re already taking steps to do just that with construction underway on two more facilities totaling about 75 acres of growing space.”

Tomatoes were chosen as its first crop because more than 60% of America’s fresh tomatoes were imported in 2019, an increase of almost 50% over the past decade. By growing closer to where people eat, AppHarvest’s tomatoes will be picked at peak ripeness and delivered quickly to grocers.

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