AppHarvest
Private developer of controlled environment agriculture projects.
Let's Grow Together
Let’s Grow Together is a collaboration between Government, Education & Research, and Business partners from Kentucky and the Netherlands.
All companies involved realize that to create real large-scale business opportunities more is needed in terms of education, building out a comprehensive ecosystem and getting more partners involved. But for each individual company, this goes beyond their scope of business and capacity to take a leading role.
The scale and magnitude of such a program therefore makes it necessary to build a shared ambition & proposition and build a scalable business case with Dutch and US public and private partners.
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Business
AppleAtcha
AppleAtcha, is an innovative, eco-friendly AgriTech company developed to reinvigorate eastern Kentucky by repurposing lands once mined for coal, employing local workers and build a new economy.
Arcadis
Arcadis is the world’s leading company for delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
Certhon
Firm that designs and builds greenhouses and technical systems for the international greenhouse horticulture sector, based in Poeldijk (Westland).
Dalsem
Firm specialized in supplying complete, high-tech greenhouse projects, based in Den Hoorn.
Delphy
Delphy believes in independent consultancy in the worldwide food & flower industry. They rely on their consultants to provide data driven expertise and offer our clients a range of possibilities rooted in facts.
HortiTech
HortiTech is focused on creating and providing in-depth horticultural knowledge to those who require it in the form of tailor-made training programs, practical research and on-demand consultancy, aimed at greenhouse growing and operations.
Kentucky Fresh Harvest
A small farm with big ideas. Kentucky Fresh Harvest is out to build a sustainable future for our Commonwealth by innovating agriculture and focusing on our most critical renewable resource: people.
Kentucky Horticulture Council
The council is a coalition of professional member organizations supporting our horticulture industry by providing a variety of resources for growers, business owners, and the public to promote a thriving industry.
Light4Food
Private firm that develops and builds hydroponic cultivation systems in greenhouses, based in Horst (Limburg).
Priva
Firm that develops hardware, software and services in the field of climate control, energy saving and optimal reuse of water, based in De Lier (Westland).
Royal Brinkman
With a history of more than 135 years Royal Brinkman is a global horticultural supplier, advisor and installer with specialized knowledge of the covered horticultural industry.
Rijk Zwaan
Family-owned vegetable breeding company developing improved plant varieties, based in De Lier (Westland).
Signify
Private company specialized in connected LED lighting systems, software and services, based in Amsterdam/High Tech Campus Eindhoven.
Education & Research
Berea College
Private educational institution based in Berea, Kentucky and well-known for offering students the opportunity to work in place of paying tuition
Eastern Kentucky University
Public university based in Richmond, Kentucky.
Fontys University of Applied Sciences
One of the largest universities of applied sciences in the Netherlands, based in Eindhoven.
HAS University of Applied Sciences
Independent university based in Den Bosch and Venlo specialized in food, agriculture, horticulture, nature and environment.
Kentucky State University
KSU is Kentucky’s historically black land-grant university. The university is currently working with staff, communities and the private industry on AgriTech innovations and ways to utilize these to enhance community life and address environmental issues, especially for our limited-resource farmers and families.
Morehead State University
Public university based in Morehead, Kentucky.
University of Kentucky, College of Agriculture, Food and the Environment
A land-grant university based in Lexington, Kentucky.
University of Pikeville
Private, liberal arts university located in Pikeville, Kentucky.
Wageningen University & Research
Wageningen University & Research (WUR) is a collaboration between Wageningen University and the Wageningen Research foundation. Its mission is ‘To explore the potential of nature to improve the quality of life’.
Government
Commonwealth of Kentucky
Kentucky’s state government.
Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature & Food Quality
Governmental entity overseeing the Dutch farming, horticulture and fishing sectors.
Public/private
NLWorks
A public-private network organization funded in part by the Dutch ministries of Economic Affairs, Foreign Affairs & the Confederation of Dutch Business.