Our mission is to create a global infrastructure to revolutionize local access to food.

Here at Freight Farms, we believe that healthy food is a right, not a luxury. For this reason, we are dedicated to making fresh food accessible to anyone, anywhere, any time with a complete platform of products and services — the Greenery™ S, farmhand®, and Client Services — to empower our global community of partners. With this global infrastructure, we aim to revolutionize local access to food for a more sustainable future — not just in terms of the environment, but by also making communities more resilient and secure. Together with our team and network of farmers we hope to build a future-facing and inclusive world.

Today, we have Freight Farmers around the world: snowy Canadian wildernesses, Middle Eastern deserts, concrete urban jungles, and everything in between. While our Freight Farmers have different backgrounds, they all want to shorten the distance that food travels from farm to table. Our farmers rely on container farms as a source of high-quality and sustainable produce, 365 days a year.

A new chapter with Growcer

In 2025, Freight Farms became part of Growcer, a Canadian vertical farming company that has been enabling communities across North America to access year-round, hyper-local food for more than a decade.

This new chapter brings together two pioneers in modular farming with one shared mission: to empower communities everywhere with the tools, technology, and support they need to build local food resiliency. Freight Farms continues to operate under its name, now with Growcer’s resources and expertise helping strengthen the work of our global farming community.

50 U.S. States & 3 Territories

Our hydroponic container farms have found homes in almost every state in the country, and can be found in the densest cities and most rural neighborhoods.

42 Countries

Since 2016, Freight Farms has been working with international farmers and businesses across five continents to help develop reliable food sources.

800+ Farms

As the largest network of container farms in the world, we continue to grow as farmers unite around a shared mission: providing fresh, locally grown food to their communities.

2,100 Trained Farmers

In addition to building farms, we also help create new farmers. Most Freight Farmers have no previous farming experience–our training programs get them ready to grow.

2 Billion Data Points

Our smart farms integrate with our IoT-connected app, farmhand®, to create optimal climates using live and historical data—making it easier than ever to become a Freight Farmer.

11 Innovative Farm Models

In 2013, Freight Farms released the first hydroponic container farm into the market. Since then, we’ve innovated eleven different models, improving the system each time.

Our Roots

Freight Farms was incorporated in 2013 by Brad McNamara and Jon Friedman, who saw a need for urban agriculture to emerge as a competitive industry in the food landscape.

They began in 2010 by focusing on rooftop greenhouses, but quickly realized that, to achieve their goals, they needed a modular and scalable solution. In an effort to cut down on costs and logistics, Brad and Jon began to seriously consider building their new technology inside shipping containers — which were widely available and would allow farms to exist in areas that couldn’t support traditional agriculture. As a result, Freight Farms was born with the mission of building infrastructure and technology to allow local food to thrive.

Now at Freight Farms, we have a passionate customer base of small businesses, entrepreneurs, traditional farmers, hotels and restaurants, corporate campuses, universities, and nonprofits. Every day, we are working on new technology to modernize farming and bring transparency to the food industry.

Leading the Industry

When Brad and Jon started Freight Farms, there was no “Ag Tech” industry — they weren`t even sure how to explain the concept to friends and family! Fast forward to 2023. Agriculture technology has emerged as a fast-growing industry, with Freight Farms at the forefront. Not only were we one of the first companies to emerge as an Ag Tech leader, but we were also the first to build a farm inside of a shipping container, and — with the launch of the Greenery in 2019 — the first to iterate on the original design.

Here at Freight Farms, we have a passionate customer base of small businesses, entrepreneurs, traditional farmers, hotels and restaurants, corporate campuses, universities, and nonprofits. Every day, we are working on new technology to modernize farming and bring transparency to the food industry.

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