We asked chefs and Freight Farms customers about what makes hydroponic produce the best option for the restaurant industry. Across the board, chefs love the distinct flavors, fresh textures, and longer shelf-life.

Inside the Industry, Small Business, Restaurant/Wholesaler, Business and OperationsGuest UserJanuary 18, 2021Comment

E. coli strikes again

And it’s getting really old, really fast.

Inside the Industry, Restaurant/WholesalerGuest UserNovember 12, 2020 Comment

Thinking positive–can the pandemic inspire a meaningful lifestyle change?

The 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.

Inside the IndustryGuest UserMay 6, 2020 Comment

How to keep your small farm business profitable during COVID-19

With 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.

Restaurant/Wholesaler, Small Business, Guides, Inside the IndustryGuest UserApril 10, 2020Comment

Building a resilient fresh food supply chain in the age of coronavirus

The 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?

Inside the Industry, Restaurant/WholesalerGuest UserMarch 31, 2020Comment

Freight Farms Aced 2019 – Here's Our Report Card

2019 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.

Top 5 Benefits of Urban Farming

Across the globe, more cities are realizing the value that urban farms can create several social, environmental, and economic benefits.

Inside the IndustryCaroline KatsiroubasAugust 12, 2019Urban FarmingComment

The Fresh Food Aisle is Getting Fresher

Consumer priorities are shifting toward local, sustainable, transparently-sourced food, and this means fundamentally changing how big supermarkets do business. Freight Farms explores trends, limitations, and possible solutions for sourcing local food year-round.

Inside the Industry, Restaurant/Wholesaler, Grown by Freight FarmsGuest UserApril 26, 2019Comment

Every Day is Earth Day at Freight Farms

We talk to the Freight Farms team about how they make a small contribution to preserving the environment every day. Read about their easy lifestyle tweaks and the environmental ills they hope to overcome.

Meet the Team, Inside the IndustryGuest UserApril 22, 2019Comment

The Evolution of the Vertical Hydroponic Container Farm

On April 11th we hosted our most popular webinar ever. We explored how the Greenery has reimagined vertical farming and controlled environment agriculture to bring farmers increased yields, customization, and control. Now we’re summarizing the entire conversation, just for you.

webinar, Inside the IndustryGuest UserApril 16, 2019 Comment

The Next Generation of Container Farming is Here

Introducing the Greenery. Inspired by nearly a decade of container farming experience, our latest model combines brand new components in the same 320 sq. ft. footprint to bring you unprecedented yields, efficiency, and automation.

Inside the Industry, MilestonesGuest UserFebruary 26, 2019 Comments

School sustainability is more important than ever before.

Gen Z is leaving the comforts of home and heading to their college campuses of choice. As colleges and universities look to appeal to this new demographic, they can’t discount the importance that food will play in students’ matriculation decisions and on-campus engagement.

Inside the Industry, Grown by Freight Farms, Education, Organization, Org. OwnedGuest UserSeptember 17, 2018Comment

How do we feed 7 billion people?

We explore the technological advancements that transformed agriculture over the past 300 years, and made it possible for over seven billion people to populate our planet!

Inside the IndustryGuest UserJuly 11, 2018 Comment

Growing independence–how container farms can help islands become self-sufficient

Can modern container farming technology reduce island dependence on imported food? We believe it can! First, however, we need to be able to understand the problem at hand.

Inside the Industry, Small Business, Restaurant/WholesalerGuest UserJune 25, 2018 Comments

Grow Anything in a Container Farm: Unlock Your Farming Potential

Have you accidentally killed every plant you’ve ever tried to grow? Don’t worry, you’re not alone. But now you can put your plant woes behind you with our comprehensive guide to growing anything in your container farm!

Inside the Industry, GuidesGuest UserJune 4, 2018Comment

Freight Farms Brings Greens to the Big Apple

A Freight Farms container arrived suddenly at the bustling intersection of Houston and Lafayette in the early morning of April 30th, bringing something futuristic and unexpected to a previously empty parking lot.

Inside the Industry, MilestonesGuest UserMay 8, 2018Comment

Exciting Farming Opportunities for the Modern World

We explore farming business opportunities of the 21st century and a generation of young and tech-savvy farmers that are going to feed the world in new and unexpected ways. From Square Roots in Brooklyn, to Amazon, to Freight Farms, to NASA, the future of farming is looking bright.

Inside the IndustryGuest UserApril 10, 2018Comment

Square Roots Launches Urban Farm Accelerator

Kimbal Musk has a new business idea and it's called Square Roots. This Brooklyn-based urban farming accelerator program will train young entrepreneurs to grow non-GMO food year-round, and use Freight Farms Leafy Green Machines to do it.

Exploring Self-Sustaining Crop Production with NASA

Today we’re over the moon excited to announce that with the help of a NASA STTR grant, we’re partnering with Clemson University to explore a new way of growing food in extreme climates...and maybe even space.

In Celebration: National Farmers Market Week

This week is National Farmers Market Week and the timing couldn’t be better, as we celebrate the local food marketplaces strengthening communities across the US, we’d also like to highlight one incredible project that was launched here in Boston.