Uniquely Kentucky with Amber Philpott | Jonathan Webb, AppHarvest

Jonathan Webb is the founder and CEO of AppHarvest, a new company based in Kentucky and focusing on making Appalachia the AgTech capital of the country and even the world.  Webb a Kentucky native worked in New York and Washington but decided to return to Kentucky with an idea of using indoor farming to help change the landscape of agriculture.  In 2017 he was encouraged by investors to make his dream a reality and returned home to Kentucky to do so.

The first indoor farm is now open and producing tomatoes at a 60 acre facility in Morehead, Kentucky.

Jonathan Webb is a busy guy these days, AppHarvest just when live on the stock market and he is busy telling the story of AppHarvest to people all across the globe.