Vision Greens,  grows and delivers lettuce to stores like Commisso’s, Food Basics, Metro, Big Red Meats, and The Healthy Butcher, but their lettuce is anything but ordinary. The produce coming out of their vertical farm in Welland is grown using technology developed by NASA and the University of Guelph, and produces greens that are higher quality, more sustainable, more nutritionally dense and available all year long at an affordable price.

Through vertical farming, the facility can grow many times the amount of food per acre compared to a traditional farm. The produce need no pesticides or herbicides, and can always get the perfect levels of water, humidity, and light for growth.

However, for Vision Greens, selling lettuce is just one aspect of their mission. They want to change the world and create a more sustainable future. CEO Lenny Louis previously worked as GM of Tesla Canada, and his passion for sustainability led him to this venture. As Lenny puts it, “it was less about electric cars and more about moving the world towards sustainable energy. When a car left the showroom, there were fewer emissions in the world. It’s the same thing here.”

While Vision Greens is disrupting the industry, other businesses have had to adapt to changes in their respective fields.