2022: Freight Farms' Annual Review
Happy New Year, everyone! We’re taking the arrival of 2023 as a chance to reflect on the last year at Freight Farms. Over the last 12 months, we’ve grown quite a bit … and so have our farmers!
Most notably on the company front, we received Series B3 funding! We’re looking forward to investing these funds into enhancing the experience of being a Freight Farmer — from building our Customer Experience team, to increasing the capabilities of our farmhand® automation software, to developing more products that fit the needs of our diverse customer and fan base.
Keep reading for the quick highlights of 2022 at Freight Farms!
2022 at Freight Farms
We received Series B3 funding!
We plan to dedicate these funds to customer experience and support, product development, and software enhancements for higher crop quality and simpler control.
We released new hydroponic nutrients!
Our new nutrient blend has been proven to increase yields by 30%! This is thanks, in part, to the newly introduced third nutrient in our blend: boost.
We’ve experimented with new crops in our HQ farms
Our team traveled all around the world to meet current and aspiring Freight Farmers
On the flip side, we toured a record number of people through our farms
Through a combination of in-person tours, Master Classes, Open Houses, industry events, and virtual farm tours!
A number of pioneers brought Freight Farms to their corners of the world
with new farms in places like …
Azerbaijan, Oregon, Faroe Islands, Saskatchewan, Antigua, North Dakota, Turks & Caicos, and India
Farmer Awards
Check out the farmers highlighted in these awards:
Black Sheep Farms (Avon Park, FL) | Blueprint for Change (Honolulu, HI) | Boys & Girls Club of Metro South (Brockton, MA) | Cornucopia Farms (Prince George's County, MD) | Ditto Foods (Chicago, IL) | Ferme Urbaine Polynesienne (Tahiti) | Fox Urban Farms (Winchester, VA) | Good Life Farms (Vancouver, CA) | Harvest (Umeå, Sweden) | King Tide Farms (Charleston, SC) | Nanue’s Farm (Raleigh, NC) | Next Door Harvest (Canton, OH) | Primitive Greens (Cayman Islands) | Rahe of Sunshine Farms (Wykoff, MN) | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) (Troy, NY) | San Antonio Clubhouse (San Antonio, TX) | Spirar & Sporar (Faroe Islands) | Superbloom Farms (Grand Rapids, MI) | Three Harts Farm (Plymouth, MA) | Ullr’s Garden (Denver, CO) | Urban Bounty Farms (Kansas City, MO)
Our farmers’ success is our success — and the images above highlight just a few of our thriving farmers scattered around the globe! In each of their communities, they’re providing fresh food and unique takes on what it means to be a farmer.
As always, we can’t help but believe that this distributed model is what has allowed us to grow as a company. It’s what makes our model a scalable solution while some of our competitors have, of late, stumbled.
While giant indoor farming warehouses can also make giant impact — and we believe they are part of the long-term solution to the issue of feeding the global population — they still hinge on one problematic fundamental of our current food system: centralization. Large-scale food production centered in one place, the food then distributed all around.
But there’s a need for food everywhere. In every city and town on our planet, people need to eat and deserve fresh, nutritious food. Freight Farms doesn’t want to grow the food for them; we want to provide technology and services that allow them to produce it themselves. That’s why we focus on container farms and solutions for anyone to grow food anywhere. It’s a direct tie to our mission to empower individuals around the world to grow food.
As you can see in the stats and farmer awards above, 600+ Freight Farms around the world, operated by 1,000+ farmers who have been empowered to grow food, are doing great things. This global community provides a unique environment to learn and countless sources of inspiration. We are grateful for every Freight Farmer and look forward to continuing to grow together in 2023 and beyond.
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