Nov 22, 2017
Everlane is Using Black Friday Sales To Bring Farm-Fresh Food to Garment Workers
Clothing company Everlane is using its Black Friday sales to provide container farms for its garment workers in Vietnam. How cool is that?
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Everlane is Using Black Friday Sales To Bring Farm-Fresh Food to Garment Workers
Clothing company Everlane is using its Black Friday sales to provide container farms for its garment workers in Vietnam. How cool is that?
SUNDAY SPECIAL
This Sunday we would like to introduce you to an innovative company called Freight Farms. As you can probably guess from the name, this company specializes in creating shipping containers filled with racks of crops, grow lights and environmental control systems. These 'Leafy Green Machines' (LGMs) can be installed anywhere in the world and create fresh produce even in the densest of urban metropolises. Due to its interesting uses, the company has also inadvertently built a prototype farm that NASA would like to study for future applications on other planets. Freight Farms recently received a grant from NASA to develop off-the-grid systems using as many renewables to provide "life support for human exploration of deep space" in the future. Future LGMs could eventually become even more self-regulating with the incorporation of tech such as water capture from ambient air and automatic composting. In addition, the company has attracted attention from other key players such as Google and Kimbal Musk, brother to the Martian-enthusiast Elon Musk. Square Roots Grow, a company founded by Kimbal Musk, currently operates a parking lot full of LGM units for local growers. "My hope is that we are in every metro area in America as fast as we can get there," Musk told Popular Mechanics in an email.
Be sure to check out Popular Mechanics for a more in-depth view of Freight Farms: http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/green-tech/a27200/freight-farms-shipping-containers-nasa-launch-space/
Freight Farms for WSJ’s The Future of Everything magazine, June 2016
Freight Farms for WSJ’s The Future of Everything magazine, June 2016
Google has now roped in Freightfarms to produce vegetables for their Café. The basic unit costs about Rs. 60 lakhs. Far too expensive for the time being. I am sure this can be reduced way further when they will be developed in India.
Tearsheet: Freight Farms for The Future of Everything magazine, a WSJ publication, June 2016
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I spent a day exploring Freight Farms around Boston one snowy day (it wasn't supposed to snow of course) for The Future of Everything, a bi-annual publication by The Wall Street Journal. Freight Farms converts storage containers into urban gardens using hydroponics, amazing stuff. All of that said, I'm quite happy to be a contributor for this issue.
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Urban Farming With the Leafy Green Machine
Companies like Green Line Growers in South Boston are farming year-round in refrigerated shipping containers developed by Freight Farms. Photo: Tony Luong for The Wall Street Journal
Copyright 2016, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
ZipGrow no longer to be the only growing system for Freight Farms.