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Freight Farms

Logo: freightfarms.com4

Agriculture tech company

Freight Farms was a Boston-based agriculture technology company and was the first to manufacture and sell "container farms": hydroponic farming systems retrofitted inside intermodal freight containers. Freight Farms also develops farmhand, a hydroponic farm management and automation software platform, and the largest connected network of hydroponic farmers in the world. The company has installed more than 600 farms around the world, on behalf of individuals, entrepreneurs, educational and corporate campuses, and soil farmers.3 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

  • HeadquartersBoston, Massachusetts1
  • Websitefreightfarms.com
  • Incorporated inDE5
  • Business address20 Old Colony Ave, Boston, Ma 021275
  • Legal formCorporation

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Freight Farms was a Boston-based agriculture technology company and was the first to manufacture and sell "container farms": hydroponic farming systems retrofitted inside intermodal freight containers. Freight Farms also develops farmhand, a hydroponic farm management and automation software platform, and the largest connected network of hydroponic farmers in the world. The company has installed more than 600 farms around the world, on behalf of individuals, entrepreneurs, educational and corporate campuses, and soil farmers.3

The story

In 2010, while experimenting with rooftop gardening projects in the Boston area, Jon Friedman and Brad McNamara realized that intermodal containers, common to Boston's port, would make sturdy and standardized substructures for vertical farms. Furthermore, refrigerated containers feature insulation that would make it possible to maintain internal environmental conditions year-round in any location. International adoption of freight containers for transportation also meant such a vertical farm could shipped anywhere in the world with relative ease.

In 2011, the two co-founded Freight Farms and, after a successful crowd-funding campaign on Kickstarter, hand-built the first container farm prototype on the Clark University campus in Worcester, Massachusetts.

From Wikipedia’s article on Freight Farms, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.6

Leadership

Named in SEC Form D filings

People the company listed in its private-offering notices.

  • Director, Executive OfficerRick Vanzura named Nov 23, 20227
  • DirectorChris Papouras named Nov 23, 20227
  • DirectorJonathan Friedman named Nov 23, 20227
  • DirectorZach Morse named Nov 23, 20227

Filings

1 filings to the SEC since October 2021: 1 private raises. The latest 1:

  1. Nov 23, 2022D EDGAR

Every filing from the last five years, summarized. The full record is on SEC EDGAR.

Funding

Where the company's money came from, by calendar year: private offerings filed with the SEC, federal grants, loans, contracts and other assistance from USAspending.gov, and PPP loans from the SBA. Each bar links to the records below.

Money received by year$18.0M 2020–2022
Money received by yearMoney received by year, 2020–2022: $18.0M in all. Private raises (Form D) $17.7M; PPP loans $363.3K.$0$5M$10M$15M$20M2020 · PPP loans: $363.3K202020212022 · Private raises (Form D): $17.7M2022
Figures by year
YearPrivate raises (Form D)PPP loansTotal
2022$17.7M–$17.7M
2020–$363.3K$363.3K

Private raises

Private offerings the company reported to the SEC on Form D. The amount is what the latest filing says was sold so far, charted in the year of the first sale. Covers filings since Oct 1, 2021.

  1. Nov 14, 2022Raised $17.7 million in a private offering of equity7 Form D: $26.5 million offered in all Form D

PPP loans

Paycheck Protection Program loans of $150,000 and up, approved April 2020 to July 2021, from the SBA8. Matched to this company by name and state.

  1. May 20, 2020$363.3K PPP loan (first draw) from Northeast Bank8To FREIGHT FARMS INC, Boston MA; $366.8K forgiven May 5, 2021

SEC filer profile

How Freight Farms is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission, from its EDGAR record and the cover page of its latest annual report.

  • Name on EDGARFreight Farms, Inc.2
  • CIK0001592800
  • Employer ID (EIN)26-41925432
  • Incorporated inDelaware2
  • Fiscal year endsDecember 312
  • Business address20 Old Colony Ave, Boston, MA 021272
  • Phone877-687-43262
  • On EDGAR sinceDec 3, 20132
  • Filings6 in all: D (5), D/A (1)2

Sources

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