Fleet Farming is a revolutionary urban farming social enterprise created by IDEAS For Us that is redefining how we produce and distribute local food in our community, from lawn to plate. Our model creates a hyperlocal decentralized agricultural system throughout neighborhoods, transforming underutilized lawns into 100% organic edible landscapes.
3,000 acres of productive farmland are loss to development each day to build low-density suburbs, where lawns are taking over and threatening the global food supply. Today, lawns make up 40.3 million acres of the conventional U.S. land, providing an unprecedented opportunity for local food production. In addition, lawns also present growing environmental concerns, leading to more than 50% of potable water consumption for irrigation to nutrient pollution and runoff devastating local water-ways.
Fleet Farming provides all the initial inputs to build the mini farm (aka farmlette), maintain, harvest, and process the food in a community using zero-emission bicycle power for transportation. Each participating landowners receives a portion of the produce as "shared revenue" each week, and the excess is taken to local venues and sold at restaurants and farmers markets to financially sustain the enterprise. Bi-weekly, Fleet Farming hosts educational bike/farm rides called “The Swarm” to engage the public in local food systems through experiential learning.
Fleet Farming has a garden installation service known as Edible Landscapes that builds raised bed gardens for homeowners, schools, retirement communities, and apartment complexes. Learn more at www.fleetfarming.org/edible-landscapes
Company Details
- Employees
- 10
- Founded
- -
- Address
- 1030 W Kaley St, Orlando,florida,united States
- Industry
- Farming
- NAICS
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Crop ProductionOilseed and Grain FarmingVegetable and Melon FarmingFruit and Tree Nut FarmingGreenhouse, Nursery, and Floriculture ProductionOther Crop FarmingSoybean FarmingOilseed (except Soybean) FarmingDry Pea and Bean FarmingWheat FarmingCorn FarmingRice FarmingOther Grain FarmingOrange GrovesCitrus (except Orange) GrovesNoncitrus Fruit and Tree Nut FarmingFood Crops Grown Under CoverNursery and Floriculture ProductionTobacco FarmingCotton FarmingSugarcane FarmingHay FarmingAll Other Crop FarmingOilseed and Grain Combination FarmingAll Other Grain FarmingPotato FarmingOther Vegetable (except Potato) and Melon FarmingApple OrchardsGrape VineyardsStrawberry FarmingBerry (except Strawberry) FarmingTree Nut FarmingFruit and Tree Nut Combination FarmingOther Noncitrus Fruit FarmingMushroom ProductionOther Food Crops Grown Under CoverNursery and Tree ProductionFloriculture ProductionSugar Beet FarmingPeanut FarmingAll Other Miscellaneous Crop Farming
- Website
- fleetfarming.org
- Keywords
- sustainability, community engagement, education, urban agriculture, envrionmentalism, Action, SDGs, Global Goals.
- HQ
- Orlando, Florida
Fleet Farming Questions
Fleet Farming's website is fleetfarming.org
Fleet Farming's LinkedIn profile is https://www.linkedin.com/company/fleet-farming
Fleet Farming has
10 employees.
View email and phone details for 10
employees at Fleet Farming.
Fleet Farming's industry is
Farming
Fleet Farming's top competitors are
4roots,
Ideas For Us,
Electroculture Magazine,
Earth Cartel,
Marine Resources Council,
Electroculture Van Doorne,
Stockworth Realty,
Urban Smart Farms,
Florida Wildlife Federation,
Lsa Bewoners.
Fleet Farming's categories are Farming
Fleet Farming's founding year is 2013
