Pillsbury United Communities food resiliency program lifts up the Minneapolis community and address topics of culture, education, health, policy, and justice. With urban gardens, meal programs, food shelves, a community grocery store, and Freight Farm, Pillsbury has built a holistic food ecosystem to tackle system issues affecting food access.
Read MoreWhen Jack Levine first started college at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, he had never heard of container farming, let alone imagined it as a career. Today, he’s paying the experience forward by bringing sustainable indoor farming to schools and organizations around the state.
Read MoreThe rebuilding that will come in the aftermath of COVID-19 is a fertile opportunity to create meaningful change on a personal, community, and global scale. Farming allows you to pursue what’s most important while providing you the stress-free and resilient business opportunity that you may be looking for.
Read MoreThe Lotus House Farm is an essential piece of the Miami non-profit that has built a residential and resource center for women and children experiencing homelessness. The farm is the source of healthy greens for the community kitchen and an innovative after-school program for children of all ages. With the farm, Lotus House questions what the “shelter” experience is, and how creating a holistic approach can help change lives for the better.
Read MoreWe’re highlighting just four amazing non-profits who are harnessing the power of growing food to empower individuals, nurture bodies, and unify communities. Learn more about their container farming projects!
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 MoreThe 2020 novel coronavirus outbreak has disrupted almost every industry–and the global food supply chain is no exception. As shortages in grocery stores continue, Freight Farms explores how the virus has exposed long-standing issues in how we source and transport our food. Can a distributed supply network be the key to a more resilient system in the future?
Read MoreFor today’s modern corporate campus, Freight Farms provides the opportunity to seamlessly integrate sustainable food production into current operations
Read MoreFreight Farms corporate customers Sodexo, Everlane, SEFCU, and Ford leverage indoor farms as platforms for community health, wellness, nutrition, sustainability, education, and jobs initiatives. See how they each found a unique way to apply innovative hydroponic technology.
Read MoreClawson Greens has made the impossible, possible. By growing food indoors using three hydroponic container farms, Dave Ridill has been able to grow fresh greens year-round in Teton Valley, Idaho–a snowy region of the country that typically has a growing season shorter than 3 months. Dave shared his secrets to success with the Freight Farms team in a Q&A!
Read MoreFarmhand® helps you operate your smart container farm by giving you control over farm functions and access to important farm data that you can use to improve your operations week over week.
Read MoreOn February 13th, 2020 we recorded the first of our two-part webinar series all about the Freight Farms Greenery. Part one focused on the technological systems that make the Greenery a growing powerhouse, capable of growing at a commercial scale 365 days a year. Get the whole story in our comprehensive webinar recap!
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 More2019 was an awesome year at Freight Farms! We hosted a record number of webinars and events, expanded our global map, and launched our second-generation container farm, the Greenery™. As we also celebrate the end of the decade, we took the time to give out some superlatives and celebrate all the ways our school and university customers use their farm on campus.
Read MoreRunning a successful CSA is easier said than done. Expert farmer Sarah Ward shared her experience operating a CSA with Freight Farms in a recent webinar. We summarized the entire conversation so you can start a CSA too.
Read MoreDuring our conversation with Saint Joseph’s College of Maine, we discussed the unique way the farm arrived on campus, how students found their callings through a part-time job at the farm, and a very cool new certificate program called the Institute for Local Food System Innovation.
Read MoreAround the country, private, public, charter, and vocational schools are looking for ways to add school sustainability initiatives, many turn to container farming as a way to nurture hands-on education in the classroom and good nutrition in the cafeteria.
Read MoreSaint Joseph’s College is using its campus hydroponic container farm as a platform for student employment and engagement, inspiring students to pursue sustainable lifestyles during and after college.
Read MoreWhether looking to supply sustainable food, jumpstart modern agriculture curriculums, encourage student engagement, or simply grow the best greens around, universities around the country are relying on hydroponic container farms to create impactful farm to campus programs.
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