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On Jan. 15, the University received delivery of a Freight Farm — a retrofitted shipping container housing a fully functional hydroponic farm known as the Leafy Green Machine. Parked behind the Lasry Center for Bioscience, the Freight Farm will provide Clark’s Dining Services with fresh lettuce — as many as 500 heads a week during peak times — 365 days a year, whether there’s two feet of snow on the ground or the thermometer is hitting three digits.
Technically, this is not the first time a Leafy Green Machine has found a home on campus. CEO and co-founder Brad McNamara, M.B.A./M.S. (ES&P) ’13, incubated and launched Freight Farms while still a graduate student at Clark. With early support and guidance from Director of Sustainability Jenny Isler, he and partner Jon Friedman developed a prototype in the Maywood Street parking lot behind the Recycling Center.
