Grow Food Here is our way to highlight and honor the efforts of our Freight Farmers in the local food movement advocating for positive change.
Our farmers and partners use their Freight Farms to transform their communities around the world.
Season 5
Episode 2 | Grow Food Here | Broadview Federal Credit Union
Since 2018, Broadview Federal Credit Union has purchased four Freight Farms and generously donated three of them to local nonprofit organizations. Broadview’s container farming initiative has helped increase food security, provide hands-on education for kids, and improve health outcomes in their community.
Episode 1 | Grow Food Here | King Tide Farms
Eager to shift from a lifelong career in sales, Hamilton sought a new entrepreneurial venture. His exploration led him to discover Freight Farms, and shortly thereafter, King Tide Farms was born. In our latest Grow Food Here episode, Hamilton details the inception of his Freight Farming journey and how he leveraged his sales expertise to forge connections with local restaurants. Discover the driving factors that propelled his success, transforming King Tide Farms into a premier produce supplier for Charleston's top chefs.
Season 4
Episode 1 | Grow Food Here | Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro South
In Boston Metro South, the local Boys & Girls Club has brought community members, kids and families, big-name donors, and nonprofit leadership together around a container farming program. Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro South’s two Freight Farms offer more than just food to the Clubs; they present opportunity. They are teaching tools; the basis of creative programming for youth; a way of involving community volunteers; and a way for the Boys & Girls Club to support other local nonprofits.
Episode 2 | Grow Food Here | FFA at Floyd County School of Innovation
Soon after Floyd County School of Innovation (FCSI) launched, administration realized that theirs was one of only five counties in Kentucky to not offer FFA and agriculture programming — but with limited space at the school, an on-campus farm was not an option. So, FSCI applied for grant funding for a Freight Farm, which quickly proved to be an asset to the school, drawing students to both FCSI and the agriculture program and offering an FFA pathway.
Episode 3 | Grow Food Here | University of North Texas
The University of North Texas Dining Services has earned a stellar reputation nationwide for its unwavering commitment to sustainability and self-sufficiency. Demonstrating their cutting-edge approach to food production, the University of North Texas proudly maintains two Freight Farms on campus. These Freight Farms provide UNT Dining Services with the capability to grow a diverse range of fresh produce throughout the year, proudly serving the university.
Season 3
Episode 1 | Grow Food Here | Auburn University
At Auburn University, the Department of Horticulture partners with Campus Dining to offer students hands-on learning experiences and the campus community fresh produce. The trailblazing sustainable college campus implements two Greenery™ farms to provide lettuce for campus dining, with students in the horticulture program doing the work of growing the produce in the vertical farms, gaining valuable hands-on learning opportunities in the process.
Episode 2 | Grow Food Here | Mountain Vista High School
Mountain Vista is a pioneer of vertical farming at schools. Their Freight Farm is utilized by teachers across disciplines to get students out from behind their desks and provide valuable hands-on learning experiences. It has proven itself to be an effective educational tool — impacting students for the better in their high school careers and even giving them a jump-start for college and other post-high school pathways.
Season 2
Episode 1 | Grow Food Here | Kodiak, Alaska
Siene Allen and Gideon Saunders were inspired to bring a farm to Kodiak, Alaska as a way to further the remote island's already strong independent nature. With a booming fishing industry, Kodiak is used to taking care of its own, but with short summers and a vulnerable supply chain, fresh produce is hard to come by. BrightBox Farms is changing all that with its Greenery, bringing the community local and sustainable food year-round.
Episode 2 | Grow Food Here | Umeå, Sweden
Brothers Daniel and Tobias Remes and friend Ellen Bergström came together to start Harvest when they took a look at the fresh food market in their northern Sweden city of Umeå and realized it was severely lacking. With long cold and dark Swedish winters making it impossible to grow food locally year-round, Umeå residents are used to getting second-rate fresh food shipped from elsewhere in Europe. Harvest looks to change that by growing food right in Umeå year-round.
Episode 3 | Grow Food Here | Nassau, Bahamas
Even as a college student, Lincoln Deal saw the imminent food security issues that his nation of the Bahamas is facing. After conceptualizing the idea of Eeden Farms in a research paper, he later brought his vision to life of making the Bahamas more self-sufficient by purchasing 3 Freight Farms. Today, Eeden Farms supplies restaurants in Nassau with a consistent source of fresh leafy greens, herbs, and micro greens with plans to expand to supply cruise lines and resorts - a sector of the tourism industry Lincoln calls a “sleeping giant.”
Episode 4 | Grow Food Here | Miami, Florida
For Lotus House, a shelter for women and children experiencing homelessness, the Greenery container farm is more than a tool to grow fresh food year-round. To them, it’s a way to provide a variety of nutritive produce that residents would not otherwise have access to, while also engaging children in enriching educational programs so that they can cultivate a future as strong and bright as the plants they’re growing.
Episode 5 | Grow Food Here | Atlanta, Georgia
At a time they both thought they would retire, Joan and Robert Flanders pursued a passion project that turned into their encore careers. The duo launched Corner Greens Farm in 2019 with one container farm and have since scaled to three. They grow a variety of lettuces, herbs, hearty greens, and root vegetables for their community and local businesses within Peachtree Corners, Georgia. While the Flanders never imagined becoming hydroponic farmers, they are thrilled they can provide local, fresh food to their neighbors and friends, and even enjoy some fresh produce themselves.
Season 1
Episode 1 | Grow Food Here | The Leafy Green Machine™
Meet the pioneers of the container farming movement, who reshaped the landscape in their local communities and advocate for positive change in the food system by growing with their Leafy Green Machine™.
