An automated, cloud-connected turnkey farm inside an upcycled shipping container, utilizing hydroponic growing methods. 

The Farmhand Connect app provides real-time data of all the key components of the farm: air, water, nutrients, and plant growth. 

Designed to be easily implemented and operated, The LGM is a complete farming system delivered ready-to-use for immediate crop production. The modular and stackable design makes it easy to integrate into any operation and add farms to scale quickly.

Inside each insulated container is a complete hydroponic growing system with all the components needed for commercial food production.

A designated system for germination and seedling growth, the seedling station is a custom-designed aluminum workstation with an integrated hydroponic setup for up to 3,600 plant sites.

Growing from seed to harvest allows for greater control over the food supply, and provides a clear story of exactly how food is grown.

Grow leafy greens in any environment, 365 days per year

Plant seedlings get all the water and blue and red light they need to grow in the seedling station

All new freight farmers attend a 2-day training at our Boston headquarters.

The system is designed and engineered for easy operation, allowing users of all backgrounds to immediately start growing.

Hydroponic lettuce being harvested from vertical towers inside the leafy green machine, an automated and cloud-connected farm inside a shipping container. 

Romaine lettuce seedlings illuminated by LED lighting in the Leafy Green Machine, an automated hydroponic farm inside a shipping container. 

Peat moss plugs used to grow leafy greens inside the container farm.

Plants inside the shipping container farm receive nutrients through water irrigated throughout the farm.

Transplanting seedlings into vertical growing towers inside the freight farm, a cloud-connected smart farm inside an upcycled shipping container. 

You can monitor and control temperature, humidity, CO2, nutrients and pH levels inside your farm -- all directly from your iOS device or web browser. 

Growing vertically inside the container maximizes space for food production and creates a high density growing environment.

Leafy greens growing inside a hydroponic shipping container farm 

Vertical towers growing hydroponic farm inside shipping container unit. 

Connect with freight farmers all over the world in tour forum that is exclusively for our community.

LED lighting inside hydroponic shipping container farm

Perfect environment is achievable year-round with the use of climate controls, regardless of geographic location.

Experience the freshness of a variety of lettuces like crunchy romaine, smooth butterhead, or delicate lola rosa.

Freight Farms co-founders Jon Friedman and Brad McNamara.

The Leafy Green Machine is built and optimized for the growth of a wide variety of lettuces, herbs, and hearty greens.

With an internet connection users are able to stay connected to their operation anywhere in the world, 24/7.

LED lights allow for optimal growing of produce inside the hydroponic shipping container farm.

Freight Farms addresses the needs of the changing food landscape by providing the physical and digital tools to create local produce ecosystems on a global scale. 

Hydroponic basil grown inside the shipping container farm

The weeding, pest control, soil preparation, and the distribution of nutrients has either disappeared entirely from the LGM or has become fully automated. By stripping-away the nuances of traditional farming, we’ve created a system that requires only the core essentials: seeding, transplanting and harvesting.

Produce grown inside the leafy green machine by freight farms.

Patented high-efficiency LED lighting system mimics sunlight and delivers the optimal wavelengths for uniform plant growth. 

Freight Farms co-founders Jon Friedman and Brad McNamara.

Leafy greens grow in vertical towers inside the hydroponic shipping container farm.

Hydroponic shipping container farm, the Leafy Green Machine, by Freight Farms

Vertical towers create a high density growing environment inside the farm, providing space for over 4,500 plants in 256 towers. An overhead drip irrigation system and strip LED lighting support crop growth from transplant to harvest. 

Leafy greens growing vertically inside a shipping container farm.

Freight Farms addresses the needs of the changing food landscape by providing the physical and digital tools to create local produce ecosystems on a global scale. With the right tools, infrastructure and support anyone can become a freight farmer, regardless of their background or geographic location.

Lettuce grown inside the Freight Farms shipping container farm.

Leafy greens grown inside the shipping container farm to be used by dining services.

Four operating Leafy Green Machines in the city of Boston.

With the right tools, infrastructure and support anyone can become a freight farmer, regardless of their background or geographic location.

Hydroponic shipping container farm located onsite at the Freight Farms headquarters in Boston.

Hydroponics is a method of growing plants without soil. Instead, a nutrient rich water solution is used to feed the plants, and there are many ways that this nutrient solution can be supplied to the plant roots. 

You don't have to be an expert in hydroponics or traditional farming to successfully cultivate food in the LGM. The technology and automation inside the farm simplify the hydroponic growing process, allowing you to work smarter rather than harder. 

Hydroponic technology allows farmers to cultivate crops year-round, no matter where they live. So whether you're farming in sub-zero temperatures, or live in a tropical climate, the LGM's climate control makes it possible to grow a wide variety of crops all year long. 

Unlike traditional farming, the LGM requires only about twenty hours of labor per week to grow the same amount of food that you could produce on two acres of farmland inside a 320 square foot shipping container.