Longvine partners with Bluehouse Greenhouse for expansion
Mona, Utah-based Longvine Growing Co. signed a strategic partnership with Beverly Hills, Calif.-based agritech firm Bluehouse Greenhouse Inc.
The agreement is to market greenhouse vegetables produced in the 38-acre highwire house at the flagship 58-acre, Los Angeles greenhouse and energy campus, according to a news release.
Previously called Houweling USA, Longvine is a greenhouse vegetable grower and marketer with facilities in Mona, Loveland, Colo., and Nogales, Ariz., with partner growers in Canada, Mexico and the U.S.
“We continue to build our partnerships with like-minded growers who share our vision for being a good partner and ultimately support bringing nutritious produce to consumers in North America,” Longvine CEO Kevin Doran said in the release.
Bluehouse Greenhouse shares a passion and commitment to leveraging top technologies to set new industry benchmarks, he said.
The Longvine team will leverage established protocols and documentation on food safety, plant health, growing expertise, pest management and worker welfare so that the Bluehouse Greenhouse team can commission the new facility with critical programs in place and ready.
“These programs require extensive documentation and reporting to ensure transparency,” Doran said in the release. “The programs have been built over years with increasing requirements. Our ability to share our team’s expertise will ensure the Bluehouse Greenhouse team can focus on the most important output, the crops.”
Bluehouse founder Ari Kashani has high expectations for the new facilities.
“We have spent considerable time with the right experts, designing and building a greenhouse campus that will produce more with less,” Kashani said in the release. “We have found numerous opportunities where we can reduce waste and maximize efficiency, which will translate into high-yielding, high-flavor, L.A.-grown fruits and veggies.”
With the new build commencing later in 2021, Longvine plans to deliver first production to customers in winter of 2022, along with a 30-acre expansion at the company’s Mona headquarters.
