After two-and-a-half years in business patience and persistence are paying off for Fresh Simple Greens. Orders continue to increase — from customers who buy direct and rave about the crisp, fresh taste of their lettuce, and more recently from grocery stores, which buy their herbs.

Join us for a webinar featuring David Payne, Owner of Beats per Minute, a veteran-owned vertical farming company from Kansas City, Missouri. Specializing in high-quality basil, Beats Per Minute supplies over 50 grocery stores and is in high demand.

Join us for the Freight Farms Pop Up Event in Denver, CO on Saturday Jun 15, 2024 at 1532 S Acoma St, Denver, CO 80223. Come and experience the latest innovation in farming technology with Freight Farms, a company that specializes in creating sustainable and efficient farming solutions.

Based in Boston, Freight Farms supplies farmers in 41 countries worldwide with a freight container so they can grow food inside it instead of on large swaths of land. "These shipping containers … they end up either in the ocean or in some junk yard, and so what we're able to do with Freight Farms is use these containers," Carpenter explained.

On average, it can take anywhere from two weeks to three months to get a site approved, so we recommend going to your zoning board sooner rather than later when starting your project.

MHUSD is also one of the first school districts in the nation to use Freight Farms FarmTech, a program for two freight containers at MHUSD’s high schools. These containers produce 450 pounds of spring mix lettuce per week and can grow 8,000 heads of lettuce from just one shower’s worth of water.

Urban farming within educational settings has seen a significant upswing in recent years. Schools across the globe are increasingly turning to agriculture as a dynamic teaching tool that offers students a unique perspective on where food comes from and how sustainable practices can be integrated into daily life.

The second thing I would do is call the CEO of Musk’s ‘The Boring Company, and the CEO of Freight Farms. Just eleven years ago Freight Farms began installing a hydroponic farm inside a standard freight container. It just happens that a freight container will fit inside The Boring Company’s tunnel that is 12 feet in diameter.

A new system at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden is providing hundreds of pounds of fresh produce for animals each week. The zoo is using shipping containers outfitted with hydroponic growing systems, making it possible to grow romaine and kale on-site.

Our diverse farmers share a common goal: providing fresh, local food to their communities.

Tapestry Farms utilizes a shipping container to implement hydroponic (or vertical) farming. It uses small spaces to maximize produce production while using minimal water or energy resources. All in all, it's a more sustainable way to grow fresh produce year-round. 

In another effort to innovate crop production in a changing world, Biosphere 2 has teamed up with a private vertical farm technology company, Freight Farms, to develop sustainable and resilient food systems. Biosphere 2 runs one hydroponic farm, a 40-foot long, 8-foot-wide shipping container that has been retrofitted to grow leafy greens vertically.

In Freight Farms' latest episode of Grow Food Here, they follow Hamilton Horne, who used his experience in sales to start his own container farming business selling to local restaurants in Charleston, South Carolina.

Students in Cumberland Schools need not ask questions when it comes to some of their food served in their cafeteria, because the leafy greens they eat are grown right behind Cumberland High School. A large, green shipping container that contains a garden full of greens inside, sits behind the cafeteria.Installed in 2017 by 'Freight Farm,' a lot of work went into getting it up and running.

Last month, Carpenter received a shipping container from Boston. A company there called Freight Farm saves them from junkyards and then adds technology, electricity and water so crops can grow inside.

Noël Schaff of Cardona Farms started a vertical farm in rural Petaluma where she grows an edible garden inside a 40-foot-long freight container but yields the equivalent of 2.5 acres.

Inside a 320-square-foot repurposed shipping container is a hydroponic operation capable of matching a 3-acre farm's produce yield, a first of its kind initiative on a hospital campus.

Freight Farms is an industry pioneer and global market leader of modular controlled environment agriculture, with more than 600 modular farms sold across 40 countries. “We believe it is just the beginning of Freight Farms’ growth journey as we continue to revolutionize controlled environmental farming.”

Freight Farms’ mission is to create the global infrastructure to revolutionize local access to food. They are dedicated to making fresh food accessible to anyone, anywhere, any time with a complete platform of products and services

Freight Farms debuted the first vertical hydroponic farm built inside an intermodal shipping container with the mission of democratizing and decentralizing the local production of fresh, healthy food. Since its inception, Freight Farms has refined its product offering to arrive at the Greenery™ container farm.