FREIGHT FARMS

THESE CONTAINER FARMS ARE TRANSFORMING AGRICULTURE AROUND THE WORLD.

- BETSY ANDREWS

FREIGHT FARMS CAN make any person into a salad person. Formed in 2010 in Boston, Freight Farms is the first and largest company to offer farm kits in repurposed shipping containers, using a hydroponic system that grows food, not in soil, but in peat or felt plugs tucked into movable walls. They have 800-plus farms in 41 countries and nearly every U.S. state, run by clients ranging from hospitals and nonprofits to resorts and small urban growers.