Guelph, Ontario-based GoodLeaf Farms has become profitable across its vertical farming operations for the first time.
The context: GoodLeaf, which was founded in 2011 in Halifax, has spent over a decade developing recipes and proprietary tech that helps the firm maximize the yield and quality of its produce by monitoring and controlling light, air, and water delivery to its plants. The company, which counts McCain Foods, Farm Credit Canada, and Power Sustainable Lios among its backers, attributes its success to “years of innovation, disciplined growth, and strategic investment.” It also comes on the back of fivefold revenue growth over the past three years, as GoodLeaf’s total sales soared from $6.4 million in 2023 to $34 million in 2025. GoodLeaf said its revenue is up another 31 percent this year, thanks to rising consumer demand and expanded retail distribution.
This is good because natural disasters are about to happen to most countries due to the idiotic “hurry up and pollute” mentality of the after COVID era.
Its like nobody learned anything from the pandemics impact on nature. Things were looking good for a while. Now we have the biggest super elniño already at peak power about to dry everything to a crisp until winter or next spring when it will flip in the strongest La Niña ever which will bring snow, rain, tornados and category 8 super hurricanes.
As climate change continues to make more of the planet’s surface uninhabitable, this tech will become essential.
I don’t know if they can keep it up. As the economy worsens and belts tighten, I think luxury items like this will be dropped from people’s lists.
Disagree. I won’t buy anything else and the quality is exceptional and the price reasonable. I won’t buy American at any price as GoodLeaf is a part of our food sovereignty.
Also, US produce isn’t safe.
Dude a head of lettuce is 4 bucks at my grocery store.
I’ll pay the difference, which isn’t as much as it used to be, and I’m supporting novel food tech, sustainability, and I don’t have to wash or cut anything.
Bring back 99 cent lettuce heads from the good old days of 2023 and I’ll chop my own salads for sure.
I’m not so sure, lettuce and leafy greens like the kind used in salads (basically all of what goodleaf makes) are usually cheaply priced in comparison to many other staples like meat, dairy, dry goods etc. and are extremely seasonal goodleaf may be twice as much as those but it’s also fully Canadian, all it’s inputs can be Canadian too, doesn’t have the same issues with contamination by natural means and methods (cough, Taylor Farms, cough) and is made year round unlike normal produce. In the middle of the winter i can have a salad that costs me 75c to $1 for a portion or with goodleaf it may be just 50c to $1 more to know I’m supporting Canadian eating healthily and am not going to get screwed over by a bad rain that washes fresh cow manure from a nearby field onto collected lettuce/spinach. From what I’ve seen when times get tough people tend to stop buying expensive meats or fancy imported goods and tend to buy more veggies/fruits/produce to stretch what they do have. for example maybe steaks are off the menu and instead they buy cheap chicken drumsticks or pork chops that cost a half to a third as much, and instead add a salad or some local veggies to their plate to stretch their dollar (fat least from what I’ve seen).
It’s part of the vice market, which tends to do well in bad economic times as many people don’t tend to reduce vice spending with discretionary spending reductions, though they might redirect their spending towards products that give more bang for the buck. Though in my experience, weed is pretty cheap for how long it can last, especially since prices have come below the black market prices pre-legalization.
Though that black market still exists with even lower prices now and lack of funds might push more towards it, which will probably lead to a ramping up of enforcement.
Found the guy who only reads the headlines before posting.
This is not about weed.
But it could be!
Even without profit figuring out how to efficiently and effectively farm tasty crops vertically is valuable!
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As a hater of vertical farming I have never doubted it could be profitable. I just doubt it can ever be environmentally friendly since light must come from someplace and either you are in the ground, you shade something else, or you use artificial lights. The last is most likely and that means more CO2.
Solar panels on the outside, crops on the inside. I understand your doubts but you should also consider that with vertical farming you need much less pesticides, which is a plus for the environment. It’s also robust against heat waves and storms. In general, it’s a reliable food source, much more so than traditional farming these days.
generally its artificial lights but it uses ones that are just the wavelengths the plants need and then the idea is to use clean energy sources. in return you are using less land for farmland and growing it in a high density area so that you save energy on shipping. then also harvesting and such can use clean sources. I was sorta the opposite of you. I was jazzed for it but afraid it would not become cost effective.
So are you a lettuce baron by inheritance, or did you just always want to be one ever since you were a kid?
