A celebrated startup promised Kentuckians green jobs. It gave them a ‘grueling hell on earth.’

Image credit: Grist / Amelia K. Bates. Article by Austyn Gaffney. Grist – November 16, 2023. This story was produced by Grist and co-published with the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting.

The workers had spent the morning of November 8, 2021, clipping, trussing, and trellising hundreds of thousands of tomato plants that twisted almost four stories into the air. They were inside one of the world’s largest high-tech greenhouses, which sits on more than 60 acres of a former cattle field in Morehead, Kentucky. […]

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