MORGAN HILL, CALIFORNIA: MHUSD Recognized With Eat Real Certification
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.
Green Thumbs At School: Why Urban Farming Captivates K-12 Students
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.
If I Had Elon Musk’s Money — I’d Do These Two Things
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.
Cincinnati Zoo Pilots Container Farming To Feed Giraffes, Manatees
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.
Freight Farms: Case Studies - Climates and Countries
Our diverse farmers share a common goal: providing fresh, local food to their communities.
USA - IOWA: Tapestry Farms Hosting Spring Fling Benefit In Bettendorf
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.
Every Day Is Earth Day At Biosphere 2
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.
VIDEO: Container Farming With King Tide Farms: Charleston's Latest Source of Sustainable Local Produce
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.
USA - RHODE ISLAND: Cumberland High School Grows Its Own Greens For School Lunches District-Wide
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.
Minnesota Freight Farm Route 1 Giving Farmers of Color Space To Grow
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.
Winemaker Turned Farmer Goes Green, Sustainable – And Vertical
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 The Farm Growing In An AdventHealth Parking Lot
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: How This Company Is Transforming The $140+ Billion Controlled Environment Agriculture Industry
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.”
VIDEO: From The Land: Hydroponic Farming With Freight Farms | Tomorrow’s Menu
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
Agrinam Acquisition Corporation Announces Second Amendment To Business Combination Agreement with Freight Farms, Inc.
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.
VIDEO - USA - CHICAGO: Students Learn STEM Skills & Give Back To Community
Container farming is growing plants or crops in special shipping containers instead of planting them in the ground and thirteen high school students just harvested the first crop in a container farm in Altgeld Gardens
Worcester, Massachusetts: Leominster Food Programs To Benefit From State Grants
The $5,823 will serve to build a safe storage area for the protective equipment students participating in the program wear when they work in the enclosed environment of the freight farm, said 2GetherWeEat founder Charles Luster
Northern Illinois University Unveils 'Hydropod' Project To Research Nutritious Food Growth
In early December 2023, a 40-foot by 8-foot container was delivered to Northern Illinois University (NIU) behind Anderson Hall. While resembling a standard shipping container, the unit houses a complete hydroponic farming system
Agrinam Acquisition Wins Extension to September to Complete Freight Farms Deal
Agrinam Acquisition announced that its shareholders voted unanimously to extend the SPAC’s deadline from March 15 to Sept. 15.
PODCAST: Rick Vanzura / Freight Farms - Building a Resilient Food Future & Collaborative Partners
In this episode, I speak with Rick Vanzura, CEO of Freight Farms, who takes us on a captivating journey from his days in the retail trenches to becoming a trailblazer in the vertical farming industry
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