The husband-wife team of Leigh Bailey and Jamie Redmond started the Salad Days Hydroponic Farm in Flora 11 years ago as a new career for both in a new chapter of their lives.
To say it has been a success is an understatement.
On Tuesday, Bailey and Redmond are going to have a groundbreaking for an $8.5 million expansion. The new facility will encompass an additional 65,000 square feet to the farm's current 21,000 square feet. The automated greenhouse will employ a minimum of 20 people.
The expansion necessitated a volume of interest in the business, which provides its popular pesticide-free lettuce to a multitude of restaurants and other businesses in an area of about 200 miles around Flora. Bailey, a Jackson native, said the furthest its lettuce can be found is "probably" in the New Orleans area.
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