Jonathan Webb
Work in Progress with Sophia Bush
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4.6 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2020
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Today on Work In Progress, Sophia is joined by Jonathan Webb (@webbjonathan). Jonathan is an entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of AppHarvest (@appharvest), a company that is helping to turn his dream of a high-tech farming hub in Appalachia into reality. Before founding AppHarvest, Jonathan worked with the U.S. Department of Defense on one of the largest solar projects in the Southeastern United States. AppHarvest is building some of the largest indoor farms in the world, combining conventional agricultural techniques with today’s technology to grow non-GMO, chemical-free produce to be sold to the top 25 U.S. grocers. Jonathan strives to work alongside the hard-working men and women of Eastern Kentucky and build a resilient economy for the future. On today’s episode of Work In Progress, Sophia and Jonathan discuss Jonathan’s childhood growing up in Kentucky, his time with the Department of Defense & the work he has done in the energy world, the Netherlands and its high-tech greenhouses, innovating the way we source energy, how to better bring people together and improve the agricultural future of our country and world, Jonathan’s company AppHarvest...and so, SO much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, Sophia Bush here. |
| 0:03.0 | Welcome to work in progress, |
| 0:05.0 | where I talk to people who inspire me about |
| 0:08.0 | how they got to where they are and where they think they're still going. |
| 0:22.0 | I am so excited to share a very special bonus episode with you guys today |
| 0:26.0 | with someone who is quite literally changing the landscape of food in this country. |
| 0:31.0 | The incredibly inspiring Mr. Jonathan Webb. |
| 0:35.0 | Jonathan is an entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of App Harvest, |
| 0:39.0 | a company that is helping to turn his dream of a high tech farming hub in Appalachia into reality. |
| 0:46.0 | Before founding App Harvest, |
| 0:48.0 | Jonathan worked with the US Department of Defense on one of the largest solar projects |
| 0:53.0 | in the South Eastern United States. |
| 0:56.0 | Before returning to Kentucky in 2017, |
| 0:59.0 | where he continues to work tirelessly to make the eastern part of the state |
| 1:03.0 | the Agtech Capital of America. |
| 1:06.0 | Without Harvest, Jonathan is building some of the largest indoor farms in the world, |
| 1:10.0 | combining conventional agricultural techniques with today's technology |
| 1:14.0 | to grow non-GMO chemical free produce to be sold to the top 25 US grocers. |
| 1:21.0 | And he happens to be doing this in the place he grew up and loves deeply. |
| 1:27.0 | Jonathan strives to work alongside the hardest working men and women of eastern Kentucky |
| 1:32.0 | and build a resilient economy for the future. |
| 1:35.0 | In my conversation with Jonathan, |
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