This lettuce is grown indoors and is sold in grocery stores in St. Anthony

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On the extremity of the Northern Peninsula, caller leafy greens are being grown wrong a shipping instrumentality and past being enactment connected market store shelves. Local market shoppers are excited for the caller caller and delicious option.

Sabri Farms nutrient is changing the lettuce game

Abby Cole · CBC News

· Posted: Jun 30, 2025 6:51 AM EDT | Last Updated: June 30

Woman successful laboratory overgarment holding container of lettuce

Grocery shoppers successful St. Anthony tin present acquisition fresh, locally-grown, spinach, kale and lettuce connected their supermarket shelves, each twelvemonth round.

Sabri Farms grows its nutrient wrong a 40-foot shipping container, besides called their hydroponics facility.

Sabri Farms manager Felicia Hillier said they nutrient caller products that tin beryllium packaged and sent to the market store — adjacent successful the coldest temperatures.

"Like it is the dormant of wintertime and we person to usage a vigor weapon to get our doorway unfastened and we are going retired with this caller products to the stores. It was amazing," said Hillier.

Sabri Farms started their hydroponics workplace task six months ago, with the extremity of creating affordable and year-round entree to leafy greens successful St. Anthony. The task is supported by backing from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and different occupation instauration partnerships.

Hillier has been portion of the task since time one.

"Before we started our workplace here, the lettuce prime was not great. And prices went truly precocious determination a fewer years ago," said Hillier.

WATCH | 'Who would person thought … we would person been buying caller spinach successful St. Anthony?':

Inside this grey shipping instrumentality successful St. Anthony is simply a hydroponic bounty of greenish produce

The CBC’s Colleen Connors tours the improbable increasing tract — a retention instrumentality sitting on the broadside of a road. Felicia Hillier, manager of SABRI Farms, explains however much sites similar this could mean caller nutrient grown close here.

Hillier said the assemblage was excited to spot their lettuce connected the store shelf.

"It's a section product, radical enactment local. And it's truthful fresh. It lasts weeks successful the fridge," said Hillier.

Customers blessed with caller picks

St. Anthony shopper Paul Dunphy said helium and his woman bask Sabri Farm's gallic romaine lettuce and spinach each day.

And helium says helium would've ne'er imagined being capable to bargain caller greens successful St. Anthony each week.

"The flavour is excellent. it's crisp its fresh," said Dunphy. "It's conscionable beyond my imagination."

Shopper Jillian Mullet besides said she blessed to spot that the prices are on-par with the different options.

"It's hard to judge thing that caller could travel from determination similar St. Anthony. It's acold upwind present astir of the time," said Mullet.

"It's ace awesome to spot thing section connected our shelves."

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