Farm4Profit Podcast24 Heinä 2023

The Grow Room: Ag Innovation w/ Indoor Farming

Clayton Farms

Airing 7/24/23

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As hosts what are you most looking forward to with this guest today?
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Thank the listeners and launch into the introduction!

Guest: Clayton Mooney

Before becoming a co-founder of Clayton Farms, Mooney was a professional poker player in Ireland before returning to the state looking for opportunities to work for or found a start-up. He was a founder of KinoSol, which made solar food dehydrators, then connected with Pool to found Nebullam, now Clayton Farms. He now serves as an entrepreneur in residence with Start Something College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS)

Guest: Huey Boelen - Huey B Cool

Immigrant from the Netherlands, former cricket and dairy farmer, lover of social media and great stories, and a great friend of Farm4Profit.

Who is Clayton Farms?
History, Mission, Vision
“Bring you the freshest, locally grown food”
Greens grown/harvested in an driven indoor farm
Founded in 2017 - by Clayton Mooney and Danen pool
Original concept of designing, building, and selling a new generation of indoor farming equipment, then licensing the software to run indoor farms to buyers to run themselves
Built demonstration farm at Iowa State University Research Park
Selling lettuce and microgreens to local restaurants when COVID-19 hit
How did you survive during the pandemic? How did you receive business from other restaurants? Did this lead to doorstep delivery?
Background
Food harvest/grown in neighborhood
No pesticides
Harvested and delivered same day all year around
What they’re growing
Lettuce, radish, sunflower, beet, bok choy, pea, broccoli, cherry tomatoes, arugula, chard
How the subscription works:
Choose items → get delivery times → delivered to door-step→ reusable packaging
Locations: Ames, IA and Twin Cities
Twin Cities location
Received keys to building to harvest plants in 8 weeks
What made you come to the idea of your company?
Did you grow up with an ag background? Where did your interest grow in ag? Did you have a greenhouse beforehand?
Why Iowa?
Agriculture state - accessibility to ISU researches and ability to hire ISU alumni
Iowa’s startup ecosystem - Iowa State CyStarters and ISU Startup Factory
Ag StartupEngine invested in Clayton Farms in 2017 - follow-on investment in 2019
What other demographics would fit his company?
Have there been challenges to selling people to subscribe? What promotions have you used?
The Grow Room
Launched in October 2022
A space for founders to not only work, but collaborate and connect at the ISU Research Park
Where do you see the impacting the community? What students are you seeing interested in it?
The Restaurant at North Grand Mall
What are you most excited for in the future?
What did we miss?
Summary and Challenge
If you could go back to talk to yourself at age 18, what would you say?

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