Bring a container farm on-site to grow nutrient dense produce for your resident animals, reptiles, and insects
Enhance the experience of your animals and visitors at your Zoo with a container farm.
Why Choose Freight Farms
It is easy to boost your Zoo’s sustainability, visitor and donors engagement, and conservation & sustainability initiatives with a vertical, hydroponic system conveniently packaged into a smart 40-foot container. Easy to use and impervious to seasonal changes, the Greenery S is the perfect platform for local food production and educational opportunities
Make farm-to-table the standard for your resident animals, reptiles, and insects
Locally grown is always on the menu
Grow seasonal or exotic crops year-round for your diverse animals, reptiles, and insects from all around the world.
Choose from 500+ crop varieties
From lettuce, leafy greens, herbs, and microgreens to root vegetables, berries, and edible flowers, the possibilities are endless. Download Crop Guide
See how Cheyenne Mountain Zoo grows fresh leafy greens year-round for their animals on-site
Elevate your visitor’s experience
Equip your restaurants with an engaging container farm that serves visitors the freshest ingredients
Make dishes that delight with the freshest ingredients all year long. The Greenery is your reliable source for sustainable produce.
Provide unique engagement and interactive experiences
The container farm will be an epicenter of interaction with visual, hands-on, and even edible learning opportunities. Visitors of all ages can learn about sustainable agriculture, food production, healthy eating habits, and more.
Raise conservation awareness and sustainability initiatives
Create positive change
By pioneering container farming on-site, your zoo can demonstrate its commitment to sustainability through hyper-locality, water-efficient food production, and reduced food miles.
Case Study
Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs, Colorado is trailblazing this innovative initiative to grow produce on-site for animals.
CMZ launched their Freight Farm in 2022 and have since been growing a wide variety of leafy green vegetables and herbs for animal diets and enrichment. This year alone they have grown varieties of lettuce and kale, collard greens, dandelion greens, basil, dill, catnip, chard, beet greens, parsley and even willow shoots!
After evaluating the lettuce varieties grown in the winter and spring, the horticulture team was tasked with growing as much lettuce as possible during the summer to supply the zoo's giraffe feeding experience. Between Memorial day and Labor Day, CMZ has produced over 2,400 lbs of lettuce sold as giraffe treats and used in various diets around the zoo.
Cheyenne Mountain Zoo will be moving their container farms to the entrance of the zoo and receiving two more Freight Farm containers which will be in operation before the 2024 busy summer season.
Guests can see the new and original shipping container farms near the play hills, across from the Grizzly Grill, at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo.
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