Local Roots Farms Turning Shipping Containers Into Urban L.A. Farms
December 18, 2014 | 1 min to read
At any given time, there are upwards of 700,000 unused shipping containers in the United States. Some clever architects have hacked these 40-foot steel compartments into skate parks, libraries, emergency shelters and surprisingly beautiful homes.
But Daniel Kuenzi has a new one. The Washington, D.C.-based entrepreneur is turning derelict shipping containers into urban farms.
A self-described "hobbyist gardener," Kuenzi grew up in Redmond, Washington—home to Microsoft—during the tech boom of the 1990s. "At a young age I saw the impact a dedicated group of entrepreneurs could have on the world," he says. He studied business at the University of Southern California and worked for an early-stage investment group that fostered promising startups in Los Angeles, before moving east to enroll in Georgetown University’s MBA program. He co-founded Local Roots Farms in 2013.
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