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.

Agriculture and Marine Resources Minister Jomo Campbell highlighted the advantages of container farming during yesterday’s handover ceremony, noting the country’s challenges with climate, land availability, and soil quality.

Welcome to the latest episode of Grow Food Here, brought to you by Freight Farms! In this installment, we shine a spotlight on the remarkable efforts of Broadview Federal Credit Union in Albany, NY, as they embark on a journey to revolutionize food production in their community.

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.

In the last two months, they've harvested 200 pounds of lettuce and 40 pounds of radishes from the hydroponic farm.

Two Freight Farm growing containers and a cooler container were delivered and installed at the Purdue Student Farm.

At Secondhand Farms, we are passionate about helping aspiring farmers bring their agricultural dreams to life. We make starting a farm accessible by providing high-quality, pre-owned shipping container farms at a fraction of the cost of new units.

How can we weather the strains our changing climate places on the infrastructure of our global food supply chain? The innovative technologies behind modular farming offer new solutions. Rick Vanzura, CEO of Freight Farms, joins sustainability and climate contributor Bonnie Schneider.

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.

Thanks to a generous donor, two freight farms that will be used for controlled environment demonstrations and research will soon hit the road to West Lafayette.

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

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.

A five hundred square foot container farm in Altgeld Gardens is being used to teach young people entrepreneurship and bring fresh produce to the community. By The Hand Club for Kids, along with Freight to Plate and the Kenilworth Union Church, have launched Bowen Harvest in Altgeld Gardens. In March, the farm harvested its first crop.

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.