![]() "It lights up my bedroom enough that it looks like there's a light on. "We were told it would look like the glow from a normal factory or industrial area," he said. RESIDENT CONCERN John Wehner, who lives about a mile and a half north of the farm, said the light permeates through his bedroom window and has woken him in up in the early hours of the morning. ![]() The lights are not in operation 24 hours a day, the company said.ĥ. Golden Fresh Farms, which is a grower for Red Sun Farms, owns the greenhouse, and Red Sun Farms owns the distribution center. LIGHTING The company said Golden Fresh uses lights at the facility beginning in the early morning until about 4 p.m., and the lights make it possible to ensure plant growth during cloudy days and winter months. On March 1, Canadian-based Golden Fresh Farms and Red Sun Farms, held an open house at a new greenhouse and distribution center in Wapakoneta, Ohio. » RELATED: 5 things to know about Ohio’s largest greenhouse farmĤ. ![]() Two more greenhouses are planned by 2018 with construction of the second one beginning this year. This first phase of the project will create 82 full-time jobs - 42 year-round and 40 seasonal - with an annual payroll of $2.9 million. ECONOMIC IMPACT The completed facility would create 400 jobs with an annual payroll of $15 million.
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