Discover how following food safety protocols in vertical farming can boost customer trust, protect your produce, and help your business thrive. Learn key practices that make your Freight Farm a reliable source of fresh, safe, and market-ready crops.
Read MoreDiscover how to maximize your Freight Farm’s success by connecting with local resources, building community partnerships, recruiting top talent, and securing funding. Learn actionable steps to expand your farm's impact today!
Read MoreLearn expert strategies to market your Freight Farm, build a strong online presence, engage with your community, and grow your business with sustainable local produce
Read MoreDiscover 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.
Read MoreLearn about 6 important things to consider when packaging your crops. We've compiled some resources to help you determine how to package hydroponic crops and what kind of packaging best suits the needs of you and your customers. We cover value propositions, branding, vegetable preservation, customer segments, and more.
Read MoreFreight Farms provides a straightforward, sustainable solution for growing produce. This guide offers a comprehensive look at the daily, weekly, and monthly tasks required to maintain a Freight Farm, with detailed steps to give prospective buyers a clear understanding of farm management.
Read MoreSmall 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.
Read MoreWhat 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreBy 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.
Read MoreTo determine the best pricing structure, you must research your market. In this guide, we'll help you identify the ideal sales channel, outline the process to establish your pricing, and offer recommendations for moving forward.
Read MoreIn this article, we explore the economic benefits of urban farming, including job creation, community development, enhancing local food systems, and many more.
Read MoreIf you’re interested in bringing a Greenery™ to your community, you must familiarize yourself with local zoning regulations. In this article, we cover the zoning basics and our 7 tips for successfully navigating zoning laws to implement your container farm.
Read MoreIn this guide, we break down the four steps to completing a crop cycle in our hydroponic container farm and the labor requirements you can expect.
Read MoreHamilton 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.
Read MoreFarmhand, Freight Farms' farm automation software, makes farming manageable. This critical tool is one that every Freight Farmer should take advantage of. It allows you to remotely monitor and control your farm, plan farm tasks, coordinate farm operators, collect key farm and harvest data, and analyze data to understand and optimize farm operations. Around the clock, it's a farmer's best friend!
Read MoreWe recently released a new line of hydroponic nutrients! Our in-house team of plant scientists worked diligently to curate and test these new and improved hydroponic nutrients: farmhand form, grow, and boost. Over 160+ trials, the new farmhand nutrients were tested against a comparable competing nutrient blend and showed a 30% yield increase, on average. What makes them so powerful? We break down the three-part formula.
Read MoreAnyone can farm! All you need to do is follow this eight-step journey, from crafting a business plan, to training, to growing the business.
Read MoreWant to learn about how to grow microgreens and maximize your revenue while you’re at it? Well, you probably know that Greenery™ S farms have two grow areas: the Nursery Station (where seedlings sprout) and the Cultivation Area (where plants mature). It just so happens that the Nursery Station has some extra room. Why not use this space for growing microgreens to make some extra income?
Read MoreYou may know what crops you’d like to grow…but how should you package them? Every farmer has preferred methods of packaging — and a journey to figuring out exactly what they are. We’re exploring 8 of the most popular produce packaging types for Freight Farmers and growers beyond the shipping container farming industry, and the customer segments they’re best for.
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