Indoor Farms Are Shutting Down. Why Are More Being Built?

By MELINA WALLING and KENDRIA LaFLEUR Associated Press CLEBURNE, Texas (AP) – Inside a bright greenhouse about an hour outside Dallas, workers in hairnets and gloves place plugs of lettuce and other greens into small plastic containers – hundreds of thousands of them – that stack up to the ceiling. A few weeks later, once the vegetables grow to full size, they’ll be picked, packaged and shipped out to local shelves within 48 hours. This is Eden Green Technology, one of the latest c

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