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A different way of growing veggies — The Stockout

How Freight Farms helps serve deserving communities

Kaylee Nix
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Key Takeaways:

  • The Stockout podcast episode features James Woolard of Freight Farms, discussing their container-based hydroponic farms.
  • The discussion focuses on the potential of container farms to address food insecurity and resource scarcity in various locations.
  • The podcast also covers recent Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) industry news and third-quarter earnings reports.
  • Freight Farms' container farms are presented as a sustainable vertical farming solution.
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On this episode of The Stockout, Mike Baudendistel discusses a vertical farming solution with James Woolard, chief marketing officer of Freight Farms, a company that produces and sells shipping containers outfitted to be used as hydroponic farms. 

The two discuss where container farms are likely to have the biggest impact and how they can provide a sustainable farming solution to places that are food-insecure and resource-scarce. 

Baudendistel also gives a rundown of the latest CPG news amid a busy week of companies reporting third-quarter earnings.   

You can find more episodes of The Stockout and recaps for all our live podcasts here.

Kaylee Nix

Kaylee Nix is a meteorologist and reporter for FreightWaves. She joined the company in November of 2020 after spending two years as a broadcast meteorologist for a local television channel in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Kaylee graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 2018 and immediately made the Tennessee Valley her home. Kaylee creates written summaries of FreightWaves live podcasts and cultivates the social media for FreightWaves TV.