Utilizing Tech - Season 7: AI Data Infrastructure Presented by Solidigm - 08x04: Using AI for Sustainable Agriculture with Nature Fresh Farms and Solidigm
Episode Date: April 21, 2025Much of the conversation on AI is focused on power consumption and chatbots, but there are so many other positive applications for the technology. This episode of Utilizing Tech, sponsored by Solidigm..., welcomes Keith Bradley, VP of IT at Nature Fresh Farms, discussing with Stephen Foskett and Jeniece Wnorowski how they use AI to improve crop yields and plant performance. Farming has traditionally evaluated crop performance on a large-scale basis, but AI enables Nature Fresh Farms to much more carefully tailor care to the needs of the plants. Once a tomato or pepper has been grown, Nature Fresh can use AI to classify, package, and store produce for sale. This requires a great deal of storage for active plants, and Nature Fresh Farms has standardized on solid state storage because of the incredible combination of performance and reliability it brings. It wouldn't be possible to process this much data at the edge without advanced SSDs, processors, and servers.Guest: Keith Bradley, Vice President of Information Technology at Nature Fresh FarmsHosts: Stephen Foskett, President of the Tech Field Day Business Unit and Organizer of the Tech Field Day Event SeriesJeniece Wnorowski, Head of Influencer Marketing at Solidigm Scott Shadley, Leadership Narrative Director and Evangelist at SolidigmFollow Tech Field Day on LinkedIn, on X/Twitter, on Bluesky, and on Mastodon. Visit the Tech Field Day website for more information on upcoming events. For more episodes of Utilizing Tech, head to the dedicated website and follow the show on X/Twitter, on Bluesky, and on Mastodon.
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Much of the conversation on AI is focused on power consumption and chatbots,
but there are so many other positive applications for this technology.
This episode of Utilizing Tech, sponsored by Solidime, brings in Keith Bradley from NatureFresh Farms to discuss how they're using AI
to improve crop yields, plant performance, and make tasty tomatoes.
Welcome to Utilizing Tech, the podcast about emerging technology from Tech Field Day, part
of the Futurum group.
This season is presented by Solidim and focuses on AI at the edge and related technologies.
I'm your host, Stephen Foskett, organizer of the Tech Field Day event series, including
Edge Field Day.
Joining me from Solidim is my co-host, Janice Naroski.
Welcome to the show.
Thank you, Stephen, it's great to be back.
Yeah, it's great to have SolidIME presenting this season
where we're bringing in lots of guests
from different companies talking about different aspects
of AI at the edge.
And I'm particularly proud of this,
not only because I know our guest,
but also because, you know,
we're talking to an end user here.
We're talking to somebody who's actually doing something productive with AI
and not just applying a chat bot to things.
Couldn't agree more. I'm super excited about this.
And, you know, tomorrow is actually Earth Day, right?
So this guest is very timely altogether.
Indeed. So let's introduce him.
Keith Bradley is VP of IT over at NatureFresh Farms.
We've seen Keith before at our Tech Field Day events.
We've learned a little bit more about what NatureFresh is doing.
And I think we're going to learn more here coming up.
Keith, welcome to the show.
Hey, thanks, Stephen.
Thank you, Janice, for letting me be a part of this.
And again, it's always exciting to talk about AI.
It's always exciting to talk about the edge.
And it's always excited to talk about what NatureFresh Farms
does and how we do things.
And again, it's Earth Day, something
that we take to heart, producing vegetables for the world.
So we love to do it.
Absolutely.
I mean, you know, that's I think going
to be maybe the right way to kick this thing off. A lot of people might be listening and maybe they
have a negative impression of AI. They think it's burning up the rainforests. You know, what could
it possibly be doing on Earth Day? How could AI possibly improve our lives? But I'm going to go
out on a limb and say,
Nature Fresh, you guys are actually doing
some really positive stuff with AI.
You're improving people's lives,
you're improving people's health,
and you're doing it in a way that benefits the Earth.
Yeah, we're doing something I'd like to say that is amazing.
It's always an amazing story of how we're looking to improve
that taste of a pepper,
tomato and cucumber for you.
We're looking to find a way to get more yield from per meter squared, you know, and we're
looking at how to integrate technology to make it part of that.
You know, we've been doing growing for 25 years almost now and AI is just becoming one
of the biggest growers for us and how to improve things and
how to push it right to the edge.
Like, you know, IOT was a buzzword five, six years ago when I said, we've been doing
IOT stuff for years and now we're doing the edge and we've been doing that for years.
So it's a great industry to be in and it's great to work with so many passionate
individuals that we have at NatureFresh.
So let's, let's talk a little bit about that, Keith.
So you talked a little bit about making these tomatoes
and peppers taste better, right?
Or blueberries or strawberries, right?
I kind of look like a blue-hued in the day
with my fluffy blueberry sweater on.
But when you talk about how you do that, right?
And doing things very
differently in your farming environment, can you tell us a little bit about how you're
collecting some of this data?
How are you making these tomatoes taste physically better?
So we look at everything that we can think of, everything under the sun.
We absorb how much sun the plant's getting, how much natural sun, how much artificial sun, how much irrigation the plants getting, how much nutrients is taking in, how much is not taking in CO2 levels, anything like that, that we can control or monitor.
We're taking in and what we're doing is we're taking that data at the edge, analyzing it and then helping the system make a decision to improve the
yield and the taste of that product.
Cause what we want to do is we want to increase the yield.
We want to increase the taste.
And even at the end of the day, increase the shelf life for the
customers out there.
Cause that is what is the most important thing out there for us.
But all of this data gets collected, stored, ran through an AI engine basically to decide how do we do it?
Do we increase the temperature? Do we decrease the temperature? Do we add humidity? Did the plant
not get enough irrigation today? Should it be adding more irrigation to this process to the
nutrient level go up? We look at all that and we analyze it every day and figure out how to do it
better tomorrow based on the weather patterns out there,
what's happening outside.
Because again, we control it.
You gotta think of our plants
as they're basically a patient in a hospital room.
And we control everything in that plants life
from the day it's born to the day it's done growing.
And we control every aspect of it.
What they eat, what they sleep, everything like that.
And exactly what you're talking about is really using AI to provide
sort of a a little robotic doctor or a little robotic farmer
for each individual plant and keeping an eye on them in a way that,
you know, I think a lot of people think that farmers would like to do.
In fact, I think a lot of farmers would love to do this.
They'd love to be able to watch all their plants
and respond to their needs individually,
but they can't because it's just not possible
for people to do that.
But AI with various sensors and processing
can actually do that.
You can keep an eye on every individual plant
and cater to its individual needs
and help it be the best little tomato it can.
That's right. Yep. And that's what we look for. And that's where we start to get into the
conversation again of the edge. Because see, when we first started NatureFresh, we started looking at
an edge is a 32 acre range, or even a 64-acre range, a very large section of green house.
Now we're starting to push that technology, not to be computed at
the core, but at the edge now.
So in smaller sections, more dedicated to just that plant, because we might
be growing three or four different varieties within one section of greenhouse.
So we need to have a different algorithm, a different AI learning
how to take care of that plant.
And, you know, talk about what you want to do.
Think about it.
Most times when you think of things,
most people are reactive.
With AI, we're able to become proactive
and looking at how do we treat the plant the day before?
What do we need to do better with it?
And it's looking at it and running simulations all night
to say, this is how it is.
So at our core, we run the simulations
and then we through the Edge, we publish the
right new large-language model out to the Edge, and then that does the compute at the
Edge.
So we're not having to have that tons of data, because imagine we have hundreds of thousands
of sensors out at the Edge trying to move all that data, it was just cumbersome on the
network.
Yeah, I can imagine.
I'm curious, Keith,
now that we're talking about the specifics
of the devices that help you collect this data.
You mentioned the sensors and everyone has
a different idea fundamentally of what do we mean by Edge.
Educate us on what does the Edge look like for you?
You've got the sensors you mentioned,
but do you have a physical Edge server sitting next to the plant that's collecting the data and then sending it back to something
you have on-prem or can you tell us a little bit about your overall architecture? Yep, so right now
we've been really getting into the native edge now and partnering with Dell to do it, but we're
looking at the native edge and it's basically close to the greenhouse. So it's now basically not inside
with the plants because
we're not quite there. We do have some out there, but we're getting right close in a secured room
right on site. That does all the local data collection. It collects all the data from there,
stores it, and then it kind of condenses it, uploads it overnight to the core servers, which is
anywhere from, you know, hundred miles away to 10 miles.
And then that core core server updates, the model updates, how it would look at
the reactions and then republishes that out for the next day to start.
So the new, the new next day starts with a new model, updated process
and what it should do with it.
And that way we can refresh and update things as they've happened.
Plants again, are something we learn something
new every day. And that's what we're looking at. And we take
old data to make it good.
And you really are tailoring it to the needs. I don't know, is
it really individual plants? Is it is it groups of plants? I
mean, is it?
It we like to call it I guess you can call it weak, weak, we
call it, we call it rows of plants.
So we, we customize it to each row or each section of plants, because we can't do each
individual plant, but we can kind of customize it to that section because each section does it all.
You know, we call them houses because the, you know, it's got the nice peak, like a greenhouse,
you know, the houses and rows that are how we kind of divide it out.
But with each row, we have so many plants.
So we know, Hey, there's, you know, 3000 plants in this row.
We know how much they're going to get.
We divide it.
We know, okay, this is how much is going on.
And then we also have cameras and even people taking pictures of stuff and
uploading it to say, this is what the plant looks like today.
This is how it is growing today and what it's looking like.
So we're constantly updating what it actually looks like in the greenhouse.
And then going into what it does.
Then the next thing happens is that edge.
Once we pick that pepper, pick that cucumber now moves for me, it moves.
It moves now to the packing line.
And that's where another spot where you have to do analytics in real time, because
that pepper goes through that line.
And oh my gosh, it feels like 30 seconds, but it's about four or five minutes. And it goes through
and you have to make decisions. Is it a number one? Is it a number two? Is it a number three?
Is the color variation rate? And we've just started to play with using AI to identify that
PLU on each tomato. To verify is that PLU on there.
And if it's not, we literally have about a second and a half window
to kick that box off.
So that edge is now the packing line.
And then you go again to the next edge.
And the next edge is actually being in storage
while we're getting ready for the trucks to go out.
And we kind of come on to that right to the end when it gets to the grocer.
So it's it's an amazing edge and it's something we keep doing, but we're
keep moving technology in our stack closer to that edge each time.
Now, now we got one three on the servers on the packing lines, you know,
it's five years ago, we didn't have that.
We had one core server, but we're trying to move that compute closer
because of that time differential.
And you know, you mentioned the time differential being important and having the sensors and collecting all this data
nightly and then taking a look at every plant.
I think you mentioned it is or it is not a very
data intensive process in terms of how much storage you need.
Do you rely on high capacity storage or?
Oh yeah, we store tons of data.
Uh, we collect, so each plant averages out to it's a, it's anywhere from
both four to five megabytes a week that they produce per plant.
And at any point in time, we can have three million, about three million
plants within the greenhouse.
A lot of it's transactional stored for anywhere from seconds to minutes, but all
that data is hitting some type of storage device to be analyzed and then either discarded or
stored or long-term stored.
That's a great thing about what we've done is we've now have dates and
history going back, oh geez, almost 20 years in some locations of what they've done.
The crops might have changed, but the weather patterns and what they do is what
the growers sometimes look at too.
Are you storing the stuff on hard drives, solid state drives?
What's your drive of choice?
I've always been a solid state.
Um, I have to admit this.
I go back, I bought my first solid state server for nature fresh 21 years ago.
Like we were just, they were brand new, just out there.
And I said, this is the way to go.
And I remember cause it was such a hard conversation to sell because they said,
Oh, that solid state drive won't last five years for that server.
It won't last.
It's just a fad.
And the compute power that we got out of that changed how we worked.
And from there I fell in love and it never disappeared from the farm.
Everything from laptops that do it a little bit of AI workload on them to anything has a solid state and it's been that way for all I'm going
to say about 15 years now. So I'd like to say that's one of those things that I fell in love
very early because of that processing power and the longevity that you do end up getting out of them.
Yeah that's I think one of those things that people have found. I mean, certainly many of us have found that with laptops, right?
I mean, you have a laptop with a hard drive versus an SSD.
It's transformative. You wouldn't think it was, because that's just the storage.
But it's so much better that it enables you to do a lot more with it.
And I think that that's what people are finding as well in edge servers and AI servers. I can't imagine somebody trying to build an AI system around hard disks.
I mean, maybe there's hard disks storing some archival data somewhere.
But if you're going to process it, you're going to process it off SSD.
Yeah. When we switch to an all flash storage for our information like that,
we noticed again, 2020 was the year we switched to all flash and for
our active state of information.
And it was a life changer for us.
We literally went from hours of compute down to minutes and some areas
and everything started to become.
So it was that first day that that really started to compute that we can do this
in real time, that we can actually start to make this that that really started to compute that we can do this in real time,
that we can actually start to make this happen once we started to really use solid states in that way.
Like everything was on the solid state.
It wasn't our carval nodes that we have now.
We stole our, our, our security video, stuff like that on the spinning drives.
Let that sit there.
Cause somebody can wait a few seconds, but transactional data that's making a decision has to be on that flash drive. It has to be there and it has to be accessible right away
with the right bandwidth attached to it. Yeah, especially if you're running the AI workloads
that you're running right. The other stuff just can't simply keep up. I have a couple more
questions. This is more on the overall sustainability side of things, right?
There's a lot of hot topics in farming right now, particularly around soil prevention and carbon.
And how is your farm more sustainable than say a more traditional farm?
Or is it?
So I'd really love to say talk about our sustainable story.
And it is a great story.
It's one of the passions we have at Nature Fresh is our sustainability story.
You know, we'll start with the simple stuff, the water.
So when we irrigate the plant, whatever the plant doesn't absorb,
we take back and put into the plant next time.
So we reclaim water every moment that we can.
So nothing goes to waste.
We don't just irrigate a whole field.
We just irrigate and then take the water back.
So we're a hundred percent controlling our water.
We're recycling rainwater for stuff like that.
Now you get into the sustainability.
We don't really use soil for a lot of our plants.
We use ground up coconut husks.
So our growing medium isn't even soil because we want that neutral non nutrients non
Growing state for the plant where we know exactly what we give it each day
So we're not even touching the soil all of our plants are actually elevated off the ground. They're on a tray
They're there because it's a multiple thing that makes it easier to work on when the plants in the air
You know thinking about the field tomatoes are out down the ground. You're working on it It's right there and front rate at eye level you work on it the plants in the air. You know, think about the field tomatoes, they're all down in the ground, you're working on it,
it's right there, right at eye level,
you work on it and you can look at it.
So you look at stuff like that,
then you go into even how we control our energy.
You know, we have a large amount of natural gas
that we use to produce heat.
With that production of heat, rates CO2.
We actually take that and give it to the
plants because that's a natural stimulus and then they give out
O2 after they absorb it. So every part of our process, we
are doing something to keep it sustainable. Then, and I love,
if you ever get a chance to come by, it's always a great
passion of mine, our one facility, we actually burn wood
chips to eat the greenhouse. Talk about the best way to heat
the greenhouse is just good old natural wood chips to eat the greenhouse. Talk about the best way to heat the
greenhouse is just good old natural wood chips that would have hit the landfill.
We're taking all that, we're burning them, it's gone and it's such a clean way
of doing things. You know, all of our cardboard is recyclable. We control every
little bit of the plant and even the way we try to control pesticides too is that
we don't really use pesticides in the same is that we don't use pesticides in the same
manner.
We don't use it in the same way because we are all controlled environments, so we don't
have to worry about it.
That's fascinating.
And of course, all of this is incredibly compute and data intensive, right?
To be able to do any of this.
Even going back to where it really started to is I go back to even the days
when why did we start to track all this?
Part of it was even for, for food traceability is we wanted to know
where this pepper came from.
So we created a program so we can say this pepper, it came from row A and
greenhouse B picked by this person two days ago, So it's just something that was amazing to do.
And the data that we started to get things allowed us to realize, wow, we
can now make real time choices with this data.
It's, it's simply amazing.
And in being able to just tying this all back to, like I mentioned, Earth Day,
right, everything you're doing to improve the planet
with what you're growing here, right?
The crux of it is your innovation that you're doing,
but also having just really good data at your fingertips
and being able to utilize all of that.
It's just, I wanna come to the farm and visit.
Yeah, it's an amazing thing to see
and it's a passionate thing that we do.
And again, that passion that we have to grow a better tomato cucumber is what
makes us strong, the sustainability of what we do.
Us being able to hold onto that and being able to hold on how we control
that greenhouse and get that bell pepper to you better, faster, quicker, is one
of the major things that we can do.
One of the interesting things about AI at the Edge is getting back to one of the things
you said earlier, Keith, that you can collect more data than you normally would be.
Because if you have to centralize your data, if you have to ship it all back to a cloud
server or a data center somewhere, then you just can't collect as much data. Whereas if you can process it closer to
the edge, closer to the sensors, you can collect a lot more.
Would you say that that's sort of the secret of what you're
doing with AI at the edge?
I'd like to say that's one of the secrets out there. That's one of the
major things that changes how we do things is that
data is right there at the edge. It's able to make that decision. And we've noticed it
more and more as we push the technology from that core server, from that cloud server right
to the edge. And again, that's, that's what that's that. Yeah, I like to say it's one
of the secret sauces, but it's definitely one of the things that's helped us allow to give our growers and our grower scientists that secret sauce to continue
to improve that plant. And can you tell us a little bit Keith about what that server kind of looks
like again I'd like to learn more about the architecture right but what particular type
of server are you running on? So we're really based on a Dell VxRail.
We really have that.
It's a nice combination of Intel and a couple of NVIDIA
A30s and A40s cards doing the GPU compute on them.
But we've recently really just upgraded now
to the Dell Native Edge.
So it's actually a smaller compute server,
but it's designed to have a blueprint
that you can push out to it.
And that's really changed the way we've done things in the last.
I'd like to see even eight months now.
We've really seen how we can do it.
Cause not only can it help us control the greenhouse, but we're accessing
the packing lines, accessing more PLCs out there and collecting not only
data about the greenhouse, but data about the packing line that we never
seen before, never really thought before that we would get.
And it's given us a new insight on packing and how we do things.
And again, making that reaction happen in real time.
So that structure is what we do.
And then there's, it's a nice way of doing things because as we add more native
edges, we can deploy a prealine print out that's saying
this is what we think you're gonna do and then we can adjust that blueprint to
be specific for a tomato even specific for a specific tomato variety because we
have multiple varieties of tomatoes peppers and cucumbers so it might look
like a yellow pepper to me 10 or 15 years ago but there's actually subtle
differences between each one so now we're looking at dividing those compute out between each individual crop and each
individual variety.
So there's just that little bit of difference because every variety and every plant needs
a little TLC and a little love and that's where that data helps us.
And you're actually running these servers, you said really close to the line.
How close to the line?
Are they like sitting underneath the conveyor belts?
Are they?
Yep, so on the packing line now,
yep, we had one when we first started.
Yep, it's like right underneath the packing line.
It's actually right there next to it.
In the greenhouse, you know,
we got them basically as close as we can to the crop
that's not gonna get wet, hot and stuff
like that. We've really been looking at how do we put stuff
right into the crop now. And the Native Edge does have that
platform where we're looking, okay, can we actually start to
help build even the robots to go down the road that has that and
have that connectivity and that scalability because again, you
got to think we have to build a scale.
You know, we're 250 acres of greenhouse.
Greenhouses are gonna take over more and more acres
across the world and we're gonna get bigger and bigger.
How do we scale that out?
Because it's just getting so much more every day
and you gotta have a great solution
to scale things like that.
You know, it's funny, for years I've been talking about making the joke that at the edge,
like the server is underneath the fryers. I'm going to change that. I'm going to start saying
that the server could be underneath the tomatoes and peppers from now on because it can be, right?
Yeah, it can be. Actually, when we did our proof of concept on it, when we originally did,
basically I just plugged in a network cable
to the network for the packing line,
network cable to give it access to our network
and threw it underneath the packing line
and came back a week later and had to dig the debris
and the little bit of garbage that falls from,
you know, anything like that,
clean it off, dust it off,
but it worked right through it.
And you know, that's what we need to have.
And that's what it is.
You know, some days it's funny
because we're a very clean environment for the plant
because there is no dirt and stuff like that.
But there's still just debris, leaves,
everything else that comes through it that's like,
wow, we forget how dirty it can get sometimes.
So you mentioned, you know, the scalability piece of it,
which I think is really interesting.
Are you guys based like on a farm or are you inner city?
What is your...
Well, so we have two farms.
We're located in Leamington, Ontario and Delta, Ohio.
Where we come from actually was a very large farming land as it was, but we only could
farm for three months of the year.
Basically we were very centralized around tomatoes, but our tomato
season lasted about four weeks.
So when greenhouses started to come in, we started to change that from
being four weeks to being 10 months of the year.
Now with artificial lights, we're now producing tomatoes 12 months of the year.
Like every day we are picking something and doing something and it just grew and expanded and so yeah we're kind of really put a
greenhouse anywhere. We do typically pick fields but a lot of times we
pick the fields that you don't think of. Everybody's looking for that lush
farmland. We're not as worried about that. We more need the infrastructure of a
small city in some ways for power and for water and for things like that
to help us do things.
Yeah, that's really interesting because, you know, here in Akron, they're reusing some
of the old industrial plants for vertical farming and greenhouses.
And you know, I think that, you know, driving through the city, you might see an old brick
factory and think, well, that's not, you know, that's just an old factory.
But actually, they're growing in this case, for example, microgreens in vertical farming in that plant. Do you envision growing peppers and tomatoes and
cucumbers in environments like that too? Yeah, one day I really do think that we will be,
you know, when we really get a good understanding of how light works and how the plants absorb it,
even better than where we are today, we'll really be able to artificially give them everything they
need. We still do love the sun. It's our best friend. I'm actually out here and it's a beautiful
sunny day, so it's a great day for the plants. All that energy coming in is a great thing
for them. Artificial lights definitely do help. They change how we do things. They allow us
to do things in the winters, but there's nothing better than the sun. And give us another five, ten years.
I definitely say that that warehouse with no light, we'll find a way to make that work.
And that reminds me, one of the things that they mentioned as well was, you know, the lack of
pesticides that they need because it's completely enclosed. So they don't need to use a bunch of
artificial, you know, chemicals and so on to keep to keep pests away. There just aren't any pests.
Yeah, and we do. We actually go through a complete clean out pretty well every year,
depending on the variety, depending on the type of peppers that we have or cucumbers
or whatever we need to do. We'll strip out the greenhouse, get rid of every pest we have,
start with the freshest day zero pests, no nothing there. And then we start to grow and that gives us that ability to
have that perfectly clean tomato, perfectly clean.
It's no pest.
There's no nothing to bug the growers.
It's just a matter of focusing on how do I make that plant
better? And again touching on the AI and you know, we're
partnering with many people that are doing AI.
How do you do this stuff to make this grow better? Because there's no one formula that's going
to make it perfect. So we just keep doing more and more.
One of the last questions I wanted to ask you, Keith, is, and I'm sure the audience
is curious, we talk about the very beginning about the data really collecting, you know,
how much better can we make this tomato taste,
right?
But is there any way to collect to make sure that that tomato or that pepper has the same
nutrient value that it might have if it was grown elsewhere?
Do your products have the same nutrient-dense value?
Yeah, we do all kinds of nutritional tastes.
And we have one of the honorary things you
can get if you worked at Nature Rush.
We actually even have our tasting club.
So you actually get to taste in the many different varieties we have.
I've never done it.
Don't really know if I have the palate taste to be able to do it because you got past it.
So I don't really want to go to it and fail it, but we really do watch what it is and
we make sure that it hits the nutritional standards that you want to see and that we
match things. And, you know, that you want to see and that we match things.
And, you know, that's just what we do and the passion we have.
That's so cool.
I would totally, even if I failed, I would totally want to join the tasting club too,
because you get to taste all this delicious produce all the time.
I'm loving it.
Wow.
Yeah, yeah.
You get to go into a little dark room, have three or four different cherry tomatoes in
front of you, strawberries, peppers,
cucumbers, and saying, which one do you like better?
And we actually, it's a special light,
so you can't tell the look of them,
so it's totally clean and all that.
So it's a really neat process.
That sounds just great.
What do you think, Janiece?
You wanna join the tasting club with me,
have some tomatoes?
I think we're gonna have a field trip here very soon.
Yeah.
You guys are welcome.
Wow.
Just incredible.
And you know, the coolest thing, Keith, is that again, this is not the same, you know,
let's let's make another chat bot.
This is not, you know, oh, I'm going to make an expert chat bot that the farmer can talk
to to learn about tomatoes. No, this is directly influencing
the growth of healthy wholesome
pesticide-free, you know, I mean all this I mean it's it's incredible to think that AI does that too and that edge computing makes that
possible and
Storage makes that possible. I really appreciate you coming on here. Thanks so much
Every time thank you so much for having me. I always enjoy talking and sharing our story and sharing the passion for technology that I have and the passion
NatureFresh has for what we do every day to grow the peppers and tomatoes.
Well thank you so much for joining us here on this episode of Utilizing Tech.
As we wrap up this conversation, Keith, where
can people learn more about Nature Fresh generally and about what you're working on specifically?
Yeah, you can join us at naturefreshfarms.com. That's our main website. You can look me up
on LinkedIn. I do share some stories here and there of what we're doing. And you can
find Nature Fresh on Instagram and Facebook and all that fun stuff.
How about you, Janice? Where can we catch the latest from Saladheim this Earth Day?
You can catch the latest on saladheim.com forward slash AI to learn more about what
we talked about here today and then stay tuned for the future because you never know. We
may have another storyline to share with you all.
Excellent. Thank you so much.
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