FAR NORTH FARMING
BRINGING FOOD SECURITY TO CANADA’S NORTH
FAR NORTH FARMING
BRINGING FOOD SECURITY TO CANADA’S NORTH
Our goals
Far North Farming Aims
To provide nutritious and fresh local quality produce to remote northern communities and work camps at more affordable prices.
To ultimately be completely off-grid: generating power, heat, and CO2 from abandoned natural gas wells near remote communities or from recycling waste products into energy.
To provide local, full time employment, for Northern Indigenous groups, and a plan offering fair pay and daily access to quality foods. Can you imaging a world were northern children and adults get quality vegetables everyday, 365 days a year.
today's problems
Current Challenges
High transportation costs to Canada’s north.
High spoilage rates on imported produce.
Limited growing season in the north.
Northern communities routinely pay three times the cost of food compared to major centres like Vancouver or Calgary.
THE ANSWER
Far North Farming Offers Solutions
Habitat Conservation
The Far North Farming Food Box grows 3 acres of produce in a 40ft shipping container.
Less FTP Miles Up North
Fewer farm-to-plate (FTP) miles vs the average 1,500 FTP miles for imported foods.
Less Employees
The Far North Farming Food Box requires 1-2 handlers vs 7 handlers with traditional farming for equivalent food production.
Less Water Usage
Uses 10% of the H2O of conventional agriculture for equivalent food production.
No Chemicals
More Growing Seasons
Grow year round with a Far North Farming Food Box vs 1-2 growing seasons with traditional farming for equivalent food production.
Fully Expandable
Containers can be added to achieve the desired production capacity.
WHY BUILD FARMS IN THE FAR NORTH?
An Opportunity in Canada's North
Far North Farming will create hundreds of well-paying new jobs in northern Canada and will ensure every employee takes home fresh, great-tasting, nutritious food for their family.
Each container will produce a value of $90,000 to $140,000 of food annually.
Within a complete Far North Farm Facility of 24 containers, this translates to between $2,160,000 and $3,360,000 per year.