Now Open: Swersey Silos, our flagship AirMycelium farm.

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Aug 12

Over the coming year we plan to serve MyBacon to our first million folks. That’s a lot of bacon!

Swersey Silos, our flagship AirMycelium™ farm, not only makes that possible, but it proves that we can grow premium meatless mycelium at a large scale.

On July 25th, we held a ceremony to commemorate the opening of this new vertical farm, and all that it symbolizes. The farm is a true gift. As in, it really IS a gift! Swersey Silos was created by our originator, Ecovative. And it’s thanks to Ecovative’s engineering, design and technology that we’re here today, poised to feed the future! We’re humbly ecstatic to inherit this amazing infrastructure to take our MyBacon-making capacities to the stars.

Speaking of stars…

Professor Burt Swersey, who taught locally at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY, is another giant reason MyForest Foods exists. It was because of Burt’s wisdom, mentorship, and tendency to “insist on the impossible” that our mycelium visions were put into action.

“Swersey Silos” is a tribute to the memory of this incredible teacher and friend who passed in 2015. We were honored to host many of Burt’s family members at the ribbon cutting ceremony, where heartfelt sentiments were shared with the crowd by our co-founder Eben, Burt’s former student, and from Alice, Burt’s wife.

As for the ribbon, it was only fitting that we crafted it from paperclips, a common item Burt liked to use in his classroom when pushing his students to suspend their judgment and think like an innovator.

Our event included the rare chance to invite folks inside the farm for a look—which was only possible because we haven’t begun growing mycelium there. Once we do, there are super strict food safety measures in place.

Below is a gallery of photos from this special day of farm tours, inspiring speeches, MyBacon samplings, and all the media buzz generated by the purpose-driven passion that is MyForest Foods.