The Colorado Company Reinventing Farming: Inside FarmBox Foods

On this episode of the IM FROM DENVER Podcast, Brandon Lloyd sits down with Jake Savageau, Co-founder of FarmBox Foods, and Jason Brown, VP of Operations — the team behind the Coolest Thing Made in Colorado award-winning Vertical Hydroponic Farm.FarmBox Foods is a Colorado-based company that designs and builds fully enclosed, climate-controlled container farms capable of producing high-yield, nutrient-dense food almost anywhere. Their vertical hydroponic, gourmet mushroom, and fodder farms are helping hospitals, schools, restaurants, nonprofits, and communities tackle food insecurity and rethink how and where food is grown.Brandon digs into the origin story, how a small warehouse project turned into a scalable platform, the engineering behind the farms, and the patience it took to grind through years of R&D. They talk about deployments across the country and abroad, work with food banks and schools, growing mushrooms and tree seedlings in containers, and even FarmBox’s emerging partnership with NASA.It’s a true Colorado entrepreneurial story with global impact — from Castle Rock whiteboards to containers feeding communities and supporting research for space.Driven by Mountain States Toyota.