Though it feels like only yesterday that we were planting, believe it or not harvest season is right around the corner at Outpost Agriculture’s Revilla Station. This is the beauty of Closed Environment Agriculture (CEA): Outpost’s ability to control everything in the growing cycle from CO2 levels, airflow, and humidity…
Planting is just around the corner here at Outpost Agriculture’s Revilla Station and this means that sustainably grown, local leafy greens will soon be a reality right here in Ketchikan! Each day brings us closer to accomplishing the numerous tasks that must be completed before we can set these wheels…
Outpost’s friends from Amplified Agriculture wasted no time in molding this farm into tip-top shape following the completion of electrical and dirt work at Revilla Station. Believe it or not, these pictures show the fruit of labor that happened over the course of just a few weeks; thanks to some beautiful…
The past few weeks have been busy ones for Outpost Agriculture! Since groundbreaking at Revilla Station, the site has been completely transformed from vacant lot to a fully functional, free-standing leafy greens farm that in less than a month will be capable of producing over 3,500 heads lettuce per week…
Outpost Agriculture has officially, really, and truly broken ground in Ketchikan! Now that the structural components of Revilla Station have arrived safe and sound, it’s time to get things to their proper place and ensure that all is in working order. To accomplish this, Outpost’s friends from Amplified Agriculture will…
The footprint for Outpost Agriculture’s Revilla Station will consist in total of 8 self-contained buildings: three Nutrient Film Technique (NFT) Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) pods, and several other units that will house various work stations for propagation, sanitation, paperwork, and post-grow trimming and packaging. Since January and the arrival of…
Outpost Agriculture is excited to introduce our new on-the-ground-operations manager, Chelsea Goucher. Chelsea is a Ketchikan local born and raised in the community. Her non-profit experience includes serving as Executive Director of the Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce and sitting on numerous volunteer boards including that of Southeast Conference, SE Alaska’s…
February 17th-19th Colin and Chelsea connected in Ketchikan to meet with contractors and finalize site-plan preparation for Revilla Station, as well as to begin outreach to prospective local customers, beneficiaries, and municipal leaders. Our team was introduced to Jai Mahtani, Ketchikan City Councilman, Austin Otos, Assemblyman for the Ketchikan Gateway…
Three Nutrient Film Technique (NFT) Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) units arrived to Ketchikan and were placed at the Revilla Station site on January 18th. Each unit originated in South Carolina and was trucked cross-country before being shipped via Samson Tug & Barge over 650 ocean miles from Seattle, WA to…
Last week we got the show on the road when the Revilla Station farm truck arrived in Ketchikan. (Okay, no more puns.) On September 8, we drove the truck from from Portland, Oregon, to Bellingham, Washington, where it boarded the M/V Matanuska and sailed 36 hours up the Inside Passage…