Grow Food Here: Kodiak, Alaska

In Alaska, plants thrive during the summer months when the days are filled with sunlight, granting resident Alaskans access to fresh produce from local farms. But come winter, when the darkness of night fills most of the daytime hours, these same residents are forced to rely on produce shipped over the course of many days, from thousands of miles away. These communities needed a new way to better provide food access and they found the perfect solution in vertical farming.
Siene Allen and Gideon Saunders started BrightBox Farms, a vertical farming business, to provide community members, restaurants, and grocery stores with fresh, local produce, year-round. Passionate about providing healthy food for their community, they recognized that vertical farming, using one of our Freight Farms, was the best way to directly contribute to the health of their community by providing access to fresh food year-round, regardless of sunlight access or weather.
Their Freight Farm, with its advanced hydroponic system, allows Siene and Gideon to completely control growing conditions, giving them the ability to grow tons of produce annually and only use 5 gallons of water a day to do so. It is a truly sustainable farming solution, one that is perfectly suited for the harsh weather and remote nature of their home, and one that guarantees food security for their community. Customers are able to access fresh produce weekly, giving them healthy food during weeks-long stretches when the only produce they can buy in the grocery store is canned or frozen vegetables. And local restaurants love partnering with BrightBox Farms for the healthy, locally grown produce.
Siene Allen and Gideon Saunders, the Freight Farmers behind BrightBox Farms, are a shining example of the power that modular vertical farming has in making remote communities more food secure and healthy. They’re living proof that you can truly grow food anywhere.

[@bryandickerson5365]

As a small farmer, this gives me a lot to think about. Also, this video was amazingly well produced - kudos!

[@dennisnagel4422]

WOW !!! Can you imagine what a good impact this would have across the World if every community would do this ?

[@magicslots6768]

hi siene and gideon, it is me, I am okay, nice too see this insightful video, I am ahead and this is very much clean and needed from the future ❤

[@spy12tonite]

Thank you so much for sharing.

[@Trishpage312]

This is so great!

[@tubsewhyte]

I really love this.

[@MrTobi4]

This is exceptional. Well done really!

[@roberttimmermans6614]

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[@joymartin7745]

Very interesting

[@neilmoomey]

Awesome!

[@levasseurbarrett5631]

very interesting

[@freemusic9945]

Hello🙋‍♀️❤❤❤, very nice video❤👍

[@janetac1738]

This is amazing! I wonder if I can grow succulents in there. I don’t see why not if you can control the entire environment. I will definitely be doing more research on this😀

[@boxbrown4755]

I like this..

[@androidzeng2400]

Perfect

[@charlieslorenson1861]

That's pretty cool I built your house and insulated it

[@antoinettepickstock6560]

Great

[@brunopadovani7347]

Great stuff. Would love to know what their "all in" (including capital investment) unit cost of production is. At the end of the day it boils down to cost. Can they sell produce at a price which is competitive with the greens that gets barged in? Even when the Safeway shelves are bare, people won't buy their greens if the price is too high.

[@imadsaid5401]

Beutful

[@36nibs]

I’ve been wanting one of these since 2017 is 2021 and there’s a food crisis shortage supply chain breakage I need one of these😩

[@mrhaskins11]

Great info. Some questions. Start up cost? Ball park figure on profit. If it cost me $100,000 to start and I only make $25,000? Can these units be stacked or placed underground?

[@stephen12264]

Can you grow tomatoes in this thing ?

[@nigelfraser1378]

Very nice its a smart way makeing money

[@tannenbaumgirl3100]

Is it necessary to have red lights for growing vegetative plants, or is there a benefit to add the red light?

[@Yakuzachris10]

Green plants don't absorb green light (which is why they reflect green) and grow better under red.

[@answerdramcharan7009]

What are the vegetables you grow?

[@Freightfarms]

Hi! Check out our crop guide via the link below to learn more about the different varieties of plants that grow well in the Greenery S - hubs.ly/H0ws4kK0

[@SitkaMushroom]

What kind of licensing do you need to operate in Alaska?

[@Freightfarms]

Hi Kyle, no licensing is necessary! If you purchase a farm, you will likely need to get its site approved by your local zoning board, but other than that, you're pretty much ready to get growing as soon as your farm arrives.

[@user-km5kj8xh1x]

Non GMO?

[@Freightfarms]

That depends on the seeds farmers buy; Freight Farmers typically buy from seed companies like Johnny's that intentionally do not sell GMO.