Freight Farms partners with Food for Free to address food insecurity in Greater Boston
01/04/25, 7:33 PM
Location
bostonIndustry
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Type
partnership
Freight Farms, an agriculture tech company, has partnered with Food for Free, a nonprofit organization, to address the growing issue of food insecurity in Greater Boston. Through this partnership, Freight Farms donates all the food it grows at one of its research farms to Food for Free, which serves food to 150,000 people in the area each year.
Company Info
Location
20 old colony ave
boston, massachusetts, united states
Additional Info
Founded in 2012, 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. With global customers ranging from small business farmers to the corporate, hospitality, retail, education, and nonprofit sectors, Freight Farmers make up one of the largest network of IoT connected farms in the world. AgTech Breakthrough named Freight Farms the 2022 "IoT Monitoring Solution of the Year" for its farmhand® IoT automation software.