AppHarvest to be Featured on 60 Minutes March 17, 2019

The March 17, 2019 episode of 60 Minutes will feature Eastern Kentucky high-tech agriculture company AppHarvest, which is building one of the country’s largest greenhouses and launching a series of educational partnerships to turn the region into the country’s AgTech capital. Reporters from 60 minutes recently spent a week in Eastern Kentucky to learn about the company, which will be featured in a segment on Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, which has invested in AppHarvest as part of its focus on working with entrepreneurs outside of Silicon Valley and other coastal tech hubs. The episode of 60 Minutes featuring AppHarvest will air Sunday, March 17, 2019 at 7pm on CBS.