![SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND CONTAINER FARM
“The cost of transportation to
source leafy greens from
southern states is prohibitive,
and the short shelf life…
[limits] the programs we are
able to get these foods to while
they are still fresh.”
—Bob Branham, Director of
Produce Strategy at Second
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- 1. THE GROW POD Thanksto the Food Studies Program and the ENVS Interdisciplinary Environmental Sciences Seed Grant for supporting the Grow Pod start-up and this event!
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- 3. THE FUTURE OFFARMING? https://www.ttnews.com/articles/container-farms-new-type-agriculture
- 4. Indoor Agriculture is“growing crops and raising insects using hydroponic, aquaponic, and aeroponic techniques in warehouses, greenhouses, and containers.” -The Promise and Perils of Shipping Container Agriculture, Newbean Capital
- 5. INDOOR AGRICULTURE Shipping containerfarm Shipping container agriculture Controlled Environment Agriculture Building-integrated agriculture Indoor Agriculture Zero acreage agriculture/farming Z Farming Vertical farming Vertical agriculture Sky Farming Plant factory Vertical landscapeFood System Agriculture Urban Agriculture Indoor Agriculture Container Farming
- 6. LED LIGHTING -IMPROVED EFFICIENCY AND DECREASED COSTS Diagram from The Promise and Perils of Container Farming, by Newbean Capital
- 7. Shanghai port shippedmore than 40 M TEUs in 2018 1 TEU = Twenty-foot equivalent unit http://marinebharat.com/shanghai-worlds-largest-port-breaks-container-record/
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- 11. Kitchen on theRun, Europe https://kitchenontherun.org/en/
- 12. According to NewbeanCapital, “the software company Intuit forecasts that 40% of the US workforce will be contingent workers by 2020.” THE GIG ECONOMY Image: https://hbr.org/2018/03/thriving-in-the-gig- economy
- 13. WHY CONTAINER FARMINGNOW? ➤ Large supply of inexpensive containers (20 million per year) ➤ Lighting technology has improved and costs have decreased dramatically ➤ Relatively low cost entry to farming (cheaper than buying land) ➤ Appealing to entrepreneurial types
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- 16. FREIGHT FARMS -2011 KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGNhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/488253196/freight-farms-grow-fresh-food-in-any-environment
- 17. EQUIPMENT PROVIDERS Table from ThePromise and Perils of Container Farming, by Newbean Capital
- 18. APPLICATIONS Commercial growing Research andDevelopment Military Disaster relief Education On-site growing for restaurants, campuses Food security
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- 21. Freight Farms, Sodexo,Clark University “On harvest days I deliver the lettuce around 10:30, lunch service starts at 11, so students are getting produce that was harvested just a half an hour ago.” — Nick Pagen, Sodexo Student Farmer at Clark University https://www.freightfarms.com/clark-university
- 22. CLARK UNIVERSITY ➤ https://www.freightfarms.com/education#campus ➤Clark University partnered with Sodexo (the company that runs campus food services) to buy a “Leafy Green Machine” from Freight Farms ➤ Freight Farms founders are Clark U. alumni ➤ Farm opened in January 2016 ➤ Location: Farm is 100 yards from the dining hall “Sustainability is a core value at Clark, and is incorporated into every aspect of student life on campus. Clark was the first university in Massachusetts to sign on to the Real Food Challenge, a student-run organization determined on sourcing 20% of all food sold on campus from local, ecologically-sound, humanely raised or fair trade vendors by 2020.” "The response has been terrific, and it's always the first kind of lettuce we run out of at the salad bar. It also goes quickly at our retail operation where we have it as a grab and go option. Students are given a choice between mesclun mix and Freight Farms lettuce, and 90% of the time they choose the Freight Farms lettuce as the base of their salad. We feed around 1,000 people at lunch and 1,000 people at dinner, and I would estimate that the salad bar is visited by several hundred students per day.”
- 23. Second Harvest Heartland,Minneapolis, Minnesota We are delighted with the year of learning. We have modified what crops to grow and techniques. It continues to inspire. I don't see that changing. We are going to stay in container until we decide to scale.” — Bob Branham, Second Harvest Heartland
- 24. SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND In Minnesota,access to fresh produce is the most difficult part of the food supply chain for food banks. The farm started in early 2018. Since then, it has inspired Pillsbury United, a local community kitchen, to start up their own operation. Plans are in the works to scale up to larger indoor growing in the warehouse. https://www.freightfarms.com/blog/good-vibes
- 25. SECOND HARVEST HEARTLANDCONTAINER FARM “The cost of transportation to source leafy greens from southern states is prohibitive, and the short shelf life… [limits] the programs we are able to get these foods to while they are still fresh.” —Bob Branham, Director of Produce Strategy at Second Harvest
- 26. “That’s so cool!” -Everyonewho visits the Second Harvest Heartland container farm
- 27. INDUSTRY CONSULTANTS: AGRICTECTURE “When theagritecture.com blog was founded in 2011, it aimed to discover new forms of urban agriculture and share them with the world in order to inspire a new generation of ‘agritects’...Following consistent inquiries from curious entrepreneurs, a new idea also emerged from this simple Tumblr blog: a technology- agnostic consulting business designed to accelerate the work of urban agriculture entrepreneurs. Agritecture Consulting was founded in 2014. Through feasibility studies and other service offerings, we provide our clients with the tools, data, knowledge, and network to ensure their success. We consult globally and are based in New York City. Agritecture Consulting’s expertise is in controlled environment agriculture (CEA) including hydroponic greenhouses and vertical farms. Agritecture also designs rooftop, hydroponic, and amenity agriculture solutions. Our greatest strengths are our interdisciplinary team, global data, and robust methodology.”
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- 29. ➤ Importance oftraining farmers ➤ Educating potential customers ➤ Education as important part of marketing to equipment buyers ➤ Farms as part of university curriculum and co-curricular activities https://www.agritecture.com/blog/2019/4/9/the-healing-powers-of-plants EDUCATION AND TRAINING
- 30. BENEFITS/APPEAL/OPPORTUNITIES ➤ Hyper localproduce - reduced transportation and fresh food ➤ Allows grow crops that don’t ship or store well ➤ Containers can fit in around the edges of existing development ➤ Attracts new types of people to the farming industry ➤ Sometimes cheaper to start up a container farm than buy land ➤ High level of control over growing variables ➤ Appealing from a marketing and engagement perspective ➤ Might help re-localize agricultural systems ➤ Opportunities for urban dwellers to participate in growing food
- 31. CHALLENGES/CRITIQUE/LIMITATIONS ➤ Overstating production,economics, etc. ➤ Rapidly changing industry ➤ Hard to compare operations because all are unique ➤ Inputs/outputs compared to land based ag - energy, water, materials, etc. ➤ Does indoor ag perpetuate a disconnect from the land or create new connections?
- 32. RECENT AND CURRENTRESEARCH Specht, Kathrin & Siebert, Rosemarie, et al. (2014). Urban agriculture of the future: An overview of sustainability aspects of food production in and on buildings. Agriculture and Human Values. ➤ A lit review of 96 publications related to ZFarming ➤ Identifies opportunities, constraints, possibilities, and existing trends in agriculture in and on buildings for food and nonfood plant production Wylie Goodman, Jennifer Minner, Will the urban agricultural revolution be vertical and soilless? A case study of controlled environment agriculture in New York City, Land Use Policy, Volume 83, 2019, Pages 160-173 ➤ Published in April 2019 ➤ Includes a brief lit review of controlled environment agriculture as relates to urban planning and urban agriculture
- 33. THE GROW POD ATTHE UNIVERSITY OF OREGONFind the grow pod video and shipping container precedent study at https://sustainability.uoregon.edu