If you’re interested in bringing a Greenery™ to your community, you must familiarize yourself with local zoning regulations. In this article, we cover the zoning basics and our 7 tips for successfully navigating zoning laws to implement your container farm.
Read MoreIn this guide, we break down the four steps to completing a crop cycle in our hydroponic container farm and the labor requirements you can expect.
Read MoreFarmhand, Freight Farms' farm automation software, makes farming manageable. This critical tool is one that every Freight Farmer should take advantage of. It allows you to remotely monitor and control your farm, plan farm tasks, coordinate farm operators, collect key farm and harvest data, and analyze data to understand and optimize farm operations. Around the clock, it's a farmer's best friend!
Read MoreEver wonder how Freight Farmers around the world all grow food year-round, regardless of the season or conditions? The secret is advanced climate control and insulation to create a perfect controlled environment agriculture platform for indoor farming. Thanks to these systems, Freight Farms can continue to grow, even in extreme heat or surrounded by piles of snow.
Read MoreAnyone can farm! All you need to do is follow this eight-step journey, from crafting a business plan, to training, to growing the business.
Read MoreWant to learn about how to grow microgreens and maximize your revenue while you’re at it? Well, you probably know that Greenery™ S farms have two grow areas: the Nursery Station (where seedlings sprout) and the Cultivation Area (where plants mature). It just so happens that the Nursery Station has some extra room. Why not use this space for growing microgreens to make some extra income?
Read MoreLearn about 6 important things to consider when packaging your crops. We've compiled some resources to help you determine how to package hydroponic crops and what kind of packaging best suits the needs of you and your customers. We cover value propositions, branding, vegetable preservation, customer segments, and more.
Read MoreDo you like the idea of becoming a Freight Farmer, but feel held back because you aren’t sure what you’d do with your farm? Not to worry! We’ve compiled a list of just some of the great ways our farmers are using Freight Farms to cultivate fresh produce while also doing good.
Read MoreYou may know what crops you’d like to grow…but how should you package them? Every farmer has preferred methods of packaging — and a journey to figuring out exactly what they are. We’re exploring 8 of the most popular produce packaging types for Freight Farmers and growers beyond the shipping container farming industry, and the customer segments they’re best for.
Read MoreThinking about launching a Freight Farms project in your city, town, or community? We’re sharing 5 tried-and-true tips to find customers in four historically successful sales channels: CSA, farmers markets, restaurants, and grocery stores. Learn how to pitch your produce and value propositions to customers in each segment for a successful business plan!
Read MoreDiscover some outside-of-the-box locations to place a container farm. As our network of Freight Farmers continues to expand globally, the range of spots we’ve seen farmers place their containers is growing just as quickly — and we don’t just mean backyards and driveways.
Read MoreShipping container farms allow for anyone to grow food, anywhere. These revolutionary farms are the key to unlocking local food production in every corner of the globe and decentralizing our food system for the future.
Read MoreControlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) dictates that the right combination of light, carbon dioxide, temperature, humidity, water, pH levels, and nutrients makes it possible to grow healthy crops any time of the year. The Greenery takes controlled environment farming to the next level by combining state-of-the-art farm components with smart sensors and farm app integrations.
Read MoreWe explore how LEDs can be used to replace the sun and grow strong and healthy plants indoors. Our comprehensive article covers photosynthesis, types of indoor grow lights, ways of measuring power, and the effect of color on plant health.
Read MoreSee how the Greenery S uses vertical farming to maximize all the space inside its 320 sq. ft. footprint! Together, vertical farming and smart crop scheduling makes it easy to get consistent and plentiful harvests all year long.
Read MoreWith restaurants across the country closing or drastically reducing their services, the small farmers who depend on the food industry are suffering. Freight Farms explores how these farmers can stay profitable during these uncertain times by quickly pivoting to a number of direct-to-consumer strategies, including CSAs, “drive-through” farmers markets, and more.
Read MoreWhile most of us think about a plant growing from seed, there’s actually another way...cloning! Cloning might sound like a complicated process involving mad scientists, but it’s actually quite simple. Learn how to clone any plant in 4 easy steps.
Read MoreLet's talk about nutrients! Sounds complicated, right? Well, we won’t lie, there are a lot of factors involved in giving plants the ideal combination of nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, and other necessary nutrients. The good news is that getting it right in the Greenery S is easy!
Read MoreYour grocer only sells a tiny fraction of the thousands of varieties of edible greens that exist in nature. At Freight Farms, we’re able to grow delicious and unique plants that you likely haven’t seen at the store.
Read MoreOur farmers have learned a thing or two about successfully farming as a business. We asked them to share some words of advice for people interested in becoming Freight Farmers...here’s what they had to say!
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