Not every tech-enabled startup company has a traditional office.
Ellicottville Greens – led by founder and CEO Gabe Bialkowski – is building a business around its organic vertical farms. The idea is to grow healthy produce in close proximity to the businesses that will be using it, a cost-effective solution for the “eat local” movement.
The company is based in Ellicottville but also has an operations hub at the Eastern Hills Mall property in Clarence, which serves as a location for growing and a showroom of sorts.
Bialkowski showed Business First photographer Joed Viera around.
Ellicottville: Growing greens in shipping containers
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Behind the Eastern Hills Mall, Ellicottville Greens uses these shipping containers as indoor farms to grow lettuce and microgreens.
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Gabe Bialkowski, CEO, Ellicottville Greens, goes into one of the company's indoor farms.
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Gabe Bialkowski, CEO, Ellicottville Greens, checks a rack of Bibb lettuce in one of the company's indoor farms.
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Gabe Bialkowski, CEO, Ellicottville Greens, shows off some Bibb lettuce in one of the company's indoor farms.
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Gabe Bialkowski, CEO, Ellicottville Greens, checks a Bibb lettuce leaf in one of the company's indoor farms.
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