Every April, conversations around sustainability take center stage with Earth Day. Organizations share commitments, new goals are set, and reports are published. But for many, sustainability still lives on paper, meaning it’s more of a vision than something incorporated into day-to-day operations.
What if that changed? What if sustainability wasn’t something you talked about once a year, but something built directly into your space, your systems, and your everyday operations?
Across schools, healthcare systems, and corporate campuses, there is one resource that often goes underutilized. This resource is space; empty storage rooms, underused classrooms, and extra office space.
What if those spaces could become something productive? What if they could grow fresh, nutrient-dense food year-round? What if they could reduce reliance on long, fragile supply chains, lower food miles and associated emissions. And what if they could engage students, staff, and communities in new and meaningful ways?
At Fork Farms, we believe the future of sustainability is about rethinking what our environments are capable of producing. When organizations bring fresh food production inside their own walls, they create something fundamentally different, including:
- - A measurable sustainability asset
- - A reliable source of fresh food
- - A platform for education and engagement
- - A tool for advancing health and equity initiatives.
Our Flex Farm is a highly scalable, mobile vertical growing system that requires only 9 square feet of space and a standard electrical outlet for operation. A single Flex Farm can grow 25 pounds of lettuce, greens, herbs, and a variety of other foods every 28 days, making it an ideal solution for homes, schools, or almost any other setting. You could be growing food with a little light and water in the corner of a classroom, a school cafeteria, lobby of an office building.
For transforming large areas of empty spaces into a sea of fresh greens, our Flex Acre system offers four times the output and can produce close to 250 pounds of fresh food each month in controlled environments. The Flex Acre maximizes vertical space to grow fresh food at an enterprise scale with no prior farming experience required.
A great example of transforming a large area of empty space into growing fresh food for a community is Clock Tower Farms at Rockwell Automations’s headquarters. When finished, 72 Flex Acres will cover an entire floor at Rockwell’s headquarters in Milwaukee, demonstrating what’s possible when underutilized space is transformed into a high-output food production system. The facility will be capable of producing up to 200,000 pounds of fresh greens annually, enough for a side salad for more than 38,500 people every week. Clock Tower Farms will turn indoor space into a consistent, scalable source of nutritious food for those who need it most in the Milwaukee area. Sustainable solutions in action.
More food is grown where it’s consumed. And that is inside schools, hospitals, and organizations that serve communities each and every day. This Earth Month, let’s ask ourselves: How can we turn what we already have into something that produces value for people, for communities, and for the planet?
Let’s make a real impact together. Contact Fork Farms to learn more.
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