7 Ways a Container Farm Can Improve Your Office
Transform your corporate culture with a farm
For today’s modern corporate campus, Freight Farms provides the opportunity to seamlessly integrate sustainable food production into current operations to make high-quality food a staple of the culture. Each Greenery™ container farm offers you the flexibility to create tailored programs to meet the specific needs of your corporate campus. It is a powerful tool to promote an office culture of wellness, sustainability, innovation, social responsibility, and creativity.
1. Champion social responsibility
Companies seeking to reduce their carbon footprint are using container farms to offer great food at a low environmental cost. Google, the internet giant notorious for offering free breakfast, lunch, and dinner for their more than 20,000 employees, is growing produce in a container farm on their campus in Mountain View as part of their farm-to-table initiative. See how four other companies–including Sodexo USA and Ford Motors–have created unique corporate social responsibility programs with Freight Farms container farms.
Freight Farms container farm at the Mountain Vista Google campus
2. Demonstrate your commitment to sustainability
Incorporating a container farm into current operations reinforces your commitment to sustainability with environmentally-sound sourcing practices. Each farm is shortening the food supply chain, thereby cutting fuel emissions, increasing transportation costs, and dramatically reducing the carbon footprint of any food operation.
The innovative climate technology and energy-efficient growing equipment allows businesses to grow their own produce 365 days a year, regardless of the outside climate. The closed-loop hydroponic system uses 98% less water than traditional agriculture, significantly reducing the environmental impact of food production.
3 | Promote innovative technology and creativity
Container farming gives businesses and their food service teams the opportunity to explore innovative new approaches to food production. In turn, these new technologies are a valuable platform for employee education, engagement, and inspiration. Producing fresh food directly on campus with the latest growing technology makes it easy to captivate employees and facilitate a dialogue around food.
4 | Serve your employees fresh food year-round
Campus chefs have the ability to choose what to grow and how to incorporate it into their menus. Produce is grown on-site, and brought directly into the kitchens mere minutes after harvest. Alternatively, the on-site container farm can be used to start an employee CSA (community supported agriculture), a weekly farmstand, or small retail operation. Whichever method you choose, your employees will appreciate the exclusive access to exceedingly fresh and flavorful food.
5 | Encourage better nutrition, health, and wellness
Today’s industry leaders recognize the importance of providing employees with tools and resources to develop healthy habits in and out of the office. Food has become a core component of every strategy, as more companies seek to provide healthy foods options to their staff. Pairing this better access with nutritional education ensures employees are able to make more informed choices that support their health. The result is a healthier and happier community and more productive workforce.
6 | Turn employees into educated consumers
Use container farming as a tool to facilitate engagement and inspire change by providing employees with the opportunity to interact with food in a new way. Increase participation and collaboration by bringing transparency to operations and educating employees on the journey their food takes from farm to table.
7 | Cut costs
From a practical perspective, adding a container farm to your corporate campus can help reduce the costs associated with sourcing food. Owning a key part of your supply chain can help you avoid price fluctuations and delivery issues commonly associated with seasonality, gas prices, and weather. Additionally, the greens coming out of the container are at peak freshness when they reach your kitchen, you won’t have to throw out nearly as much produce (i.e. money) as you do with typical bulk supply shipments.