Discover the best packaging options for hydroponic produce. From clamshells to eco-friendly boxes, find solutions to keep your crops fresh, protected, and market-ready.
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Discover 16 compelling reasons to start container farming today! From becoming your own boss and contributing to your community, to growing fresh, local produce year-round, container farming offers personal, financial, and environmental benefits.
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Small business farmers constantly seek innovative methods to maximize productivity, sustainability, and profitability. This article explores their unique needs, compares traditional farming with container farming, and provides an in-depth evaluation of how Freight Farms can meet them.
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What happens after you purchase a Freight Farm? We've got you covered! This guide will walk you through the key steps from purchase to launch, ensuring a smooth and successful start to your farming operation.
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The Greenery, our climate-controlled, indoor, hydroponic growing system, requires no previous farming experience to operate. However, those already managing successful farms can reap extra benefits.
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By examining direct-to-consumer sales, retail and wholesale opportunities, specialty and niche markets, educational and community engagement, urban farming, and value-added products, we provide a comprehensive guide to help small business farmers integrate Freight Farms into their operations effectively.
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Explore the benefits and challenges of small-scale farming and how container farms can help increase food security, promote sustainability, and boost local economies.
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In this article, we explore the economic benefits of urban farming, including job creation, community development, enhancing local food systems, and many more.
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Hamilton Horne is the highly successful entrepreneur behind King Tide Farms, a Freight Farming business in Charleston, SC. He sells produce to the city’s high-end restaurants, whose chefs love the microgreens, flavorful leafy greens, and herbs that he grows. Building relationships with chefs can be intimidating, so Hamilton is giving us his tips for how to sell produce to restaurants.
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This International Women’s Day, we’re celebrating the women in farming — growers, entrepreneurs, leaders, and disruptors — who inspire us every day. These female leaders in agriculture have gone above and beyond to bring positive change to food and agriculture in communities all over the world!
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We’re examining the latest national and global trends. Good news! They indicate that 2023 is a great year to start hydroponic farming. From food safety to local purchasing and supply chain to healthy eating and environmental sustainability, recent studies and events suggest that now is the time to start a hydroponic farm.
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Anyone can farm! All you need to do is follow this eight-step journey, from crafting a business plan, to training, to growing the business.
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Thinking about launching a Freight Farms project in your city, town, or community? We’re sharing 5 tried-and-true tips to find customers in four historically successful sales channels: CSA, farmers markets, restaurants, and grocery stores. Learn how to pitch your produce and value propositions to customers in each segment for a successful business plan!
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National and global trends show that the public is more inclined than ever to eat local and healthily, and environmental conditions are consistently becoming more extreme. Plus, funding related to hydroponics and small food businesses is up! Learn more about why there's never been a better time to start.
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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.
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The Timveos-Oxtoby family is committed to bringing fresh food to the arid island of Cyprus! They see their hydroponic farm as a direct way to combat the island’s drought-prone climate and dependence on imported goods!
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When Jack Levine first started college at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, he had never heard of container farming, let alone imagined it as a career. Today, he’s paying the experience forward by bringing sustainable indoor farming to schools and organizations around the state.
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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.
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Clawson Greens has made the impossible, possible. By growing food indoors using three hydroponic container farms, Dave Ridill has been able to grow fresh greens year-round in Teton Valley, Idaho–a snowy region of the country that typically has a growing season shorter than 3 months. Dave shared his secrets to success with the Freight Farms team in a Q&A!
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Running a successful CSA is easier said than done. Expert farmer Sarah Ward shared her experience operating a CSA with Freight Farms in a recent webinar. We summarized the entire conversation so you can start a CSA too.
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