🇨🇦 ColdAcre doubling its processing capacity with new facility

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Originally published by Yukon News on 26 March

Denise Gordon enters one of ColdAcre’s hydroponic greenhouses, which are built from shipping containers and allow year-round production. (Gabrielle Plonka/Yukon News)

ColdAcre Food Systems of Whitehorse is expanding its business capacity with a brand-new processing facility.

The facility is used to organize and package the greens and herbs grown in ColdAcre’s year-round hydroponic greenhouse, which opened in 2020.

Denise Gordon, ColdAcre’s chief operating officer, said the facility could potentially support the Yukon’s network of growers.

For the full version of this article, visit Yukon News.

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