Agriculture

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Millis vertical farming company, Crop One Holdings, Inc. and New York-based Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have received a $1.5 million cost-matching grant from the nonprofit Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research in Washington D.C. to fund research of plant-based protein.

Millis-based agriculture company, Crop One Holdings, Inc., is building a 316,000 square foot vertical farm in Hazle Township, Pennsylvania. It is expected to open in 2024.

On Nov. 3, New England Botanic Garden was honored as the first botanic garden in the nation to be certified a Green Zone by the American Green Zone Alliance, as the Boylston garden is now performing all routine maintenance with electric lawn and garden equipment. 

Shortly after Massachusetts residents voted to legalize recreational marijuana for adult use, officials at BayCoast Bank realized there could be a problem.

Polar Beverages, the venerable Worcester manufacturer of sparkling water beverages, has joined a nationwide movement aimed at reducing food waste and promoting recycling. 

Devens hydroponic grower Little Leaf Farms has hired a former vice president of sales from the California fruit company Dole as its new senior vice president of sales.

Properties in Ayer in Harvard were purchased by Michigan produce company Riveridge Produce Marketing Inc. of Sparta, Mich. for $3 million, according to the Middlesex South Registry of Deeds and the Worcester District Registry of Deeds.

Food waste conversion company, Feedback Earth Inc. of Grafton, will pay a $9,520 fine levied by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection for violations of the air pollution and solid waste regulations.

An entity registered to the owners of Boston cannabis firm Sugar Grove purchased a facility in Templeton for $1.3 million.