4 a long time back, Chris Corkery, founder and proprietor of Hundred Acre Farm, purchased a 5 calendar year lease at Century Town Business enterprise Park without ever looking at the area, neighborhood, or even the metropolis of Milwaukee.

In October of this 12 months, Hundred Acre Farm planted its first seeds in that constructing. With the advancement now underway, Hundred Acre is one of the largest indoor, vertical hydroponic farms in Wisconsin.

The farm is responding to foods insecurity by growing greens that are bought to community foodstuff corporations inside a 100-mile radius. The 5,000 square foot farm will give a yr-round, built-to-order provide of meals. 

“The greens are implies to an end,” Corkery reported. “Don’t feel about the crops, assume about the impression.” 

Just one of the farm’s major aims is to increase source-chain resilience by featuring academic and job alternatives to the Milwaukee neighborhood. 

“We hope there can practically be a renaissance in our procedure,” Corkery explained. “Century Metropolis and this neighborhood’s mission, what they are hoping to produce, it’s a definitely potent in good shape.”