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.
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