Green Horizons Opens Initial 100K Square Feet of Mega Cannabis Cultivation Facility in California

COACHELLA, Calif., May 16, 2024 – PRESS RELEASE – Green Horizons, a large-scale cultivator of premium cannabis, with health, wellness and sustainability core to its ethos, opened the first 100,000-square-foot phase of its 1-million-square-foot state-of-the-art cultivation campus May 16 in Coachella, Calif. The first phase will produce 35,000 pounds a year of premium sun-grown cannabis at a disruptive low-cost basis. 

California State Treasurer Fiona Ma, representatives from Coachella Mayor Steven Hernandez’s office and other dignitaries joined Green Horizons co-founders Los Arias and Michael Meade for a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Ma noted that the $65 million dollar facility’s opening would bring tax revenue to the area along with job creation, with the Biden administration’s moves toward rescheduling marijuana poised to open up banking critical to businesses like Green Horizons. 

Arias, a cancer survivor, was a mix of unbridled excitement and emotion, deeply moved seeing the project that took nothing less than blood, sweat and tears realized in front of his parents, who proudly looked on from the front row and who supported their son from the beginning of his journey. “Cannabis is finally getting its due as a medicine,” Arias said.

Guests later toured the inside of the expansive grow facility, moving from room to room, observing the newly installed Neatleaf Spyder system in action, an AI platform monitoring plant growth and health, helping cultivators like Green Horizons adjust conditions in real-time and forecast accurately. Green Horizons and Neatleaf work hand in glove in harnessing data to more efficiently curate medical grade cannabinoid profiles. 

With partners including Tommy Hilfiger backing this venture, a second cultivation and manufacturing phase will break ground shortly on the consolidated campus, adding an additional 125,000 square feet. The biggest beneficiary of these projects may well be the community of Coachella itself, and that is just as important to Arias and Meade who want to grow an operation while making a difference.