New digs means new opportunities for Freight Farms, a Boston-based company that transforms shipping containers into portable farms. Fresh off a $3.7 million round of venture funding, the eco-minded innovators put down roots in South Boston in April, moving into a new headquarters that serves as both a training center for new farmers and a test kitchen where staff members can experiment with crops. Currently they’re growing staple veggies like lettuces, but they’re hoping to add strawberries, cucumbers and a variety of herbs to the mix. “We want to be growing crops that we can kind of demo and use in office, like making cocktails on a Friday afternoon—like mint juleps, which we’ve done before,” laughs marketing manager Caroline Katsiroubas.

Founded in 2010, Freight Farms aims to change the way we grow and consume produce with its 40-foot-long Leafy Green Machine, a climate-controlled, LED-lit hydroponic system. “We are essentially trying to create a more sustainable and connected food system,” Katsiroubas says. “[The farm] is our flagship product. It’s going to allow anyone to grow food 365 days a year.”

Anyone with around $80,000 to spend, that is. Buying a freight farm isn’t a casual commitment, financially, but it’s a one that a would-be farmer can take on with relative autonomy—an industrious individual can operate a farm with 15 to 20 hours of work a week. What happens to the fruits of that labor is up to the farmer. “You can choose whether you want to sell directly to restaurants or to a grocery store like Whole Foods, or a food co-op,” Katsiroubas says. “Or you could operate it as more of a nonprofit and give it back to your community.” Boston Latin School, for instance, is piloting a student CSA with one of the containers.

After purchasing a portable farm, a new owner undergoes two days of training, either in Southie or at the owner’s own site. Then Freight Farms conducts on-site visits before and after the first harvest. “You don’t just get the farm and you’re left floating out in the abyss trying to figure this out,” Katsiroubas says. “We really want to help you through it. We’re here to support you if you have financial questions.”

Freight Farms also provides tech support, courtesy of an app that lets farmers monitor variables like temperature, carbon dioxide levels and humidity. “You can harvest that data and then spread it to other freight farmers in the network, so that they’re able to optimize their growing operation, if you’d found success,” Katsiroubas says. “So it’s very much founded on information sharing as well.”

You want a farm with that?

Restaurants like Island Creek Oyster Bar and Eastern Standard are already serving produce grown by Corner Stalk, a Freight Farms client in East Boston, but another local eatery is going a step further. Tasty Burger recently purchased several containers, which the team plans on turning into a farm-slash-restaurant.

“They’re essentially taking a few different containers, blowing out the inside and retro-fitting them into an actual restaurant, which will house a freight farm on top,” Caroline Katsiroubas says. “They’ll be growing all their lettuce up top that will go on the burgers inside the restaurant down below.”

Tasty Burger, which already has locations in Fenway, Harvard Square, Southie and Back Bay, as well as two food trucks, is aiming to open the new restaurant at a yet-undisclosed spot in Cambridge, according to Katsiroubas. “That’s probably going to be happening within the next few months,” she says. “Fingers crossed.”