Truck Farms – Not the Average Way to Customize a Truck!

Not the usual way to customize a pickup,
but whatever floats your boat right?

At 4WheelOnline we certainly like our trucks to be tricked out, but that doesn’t mean we’re only into the big, the loud and the brash. Sure, we like going fast, going off-road and going crazy as much as the next person, but we also appreciate inspiration and innovation, which is why we salute the growing (see what we just did?) popularity of truck farms. If it wasn’t for people thinking outside the box we’d not have nitrous and methane kits, turbos, cold air intakes and tuned exhaust systems. So when someone thinks outside the box, we applaud their pioneering spirit.

Truck Farm Ground Zero – New York City

As far as we can tell, the truck farm concept’s ground zero was when filmmaker Ian Cheney wanted to have a garden of his own. The trouble was Ian lived in New York City and the only empty space he had was the truck bed of his grandfather’s old ’86 Dodge Ram. Ian decided to turn the truck bed into a flower bed and the rest, as they say, is history.

Growing fresh herbs and vegetables in the back of a pickup soon got the interest of the locals and Ian began touring his truck farm around local schools. News broadcasters and newspapers ran stories about the truck farm turning kids on to growing crops. But at 4WheelOnline we also reckon that many of those kids were also turned on to how cool it is to modify a pickup!

Whatever Floats Your Boat

When we think custom truck, this is usually
the sort of thing we imagine

Now we’re not suggesting that you should fill your vehicle full of dirt and start wearing faded bib overalls, but whatever floats your boat, right? If one man’s favorite way to spend a Saturday is fitting a lifting kit to his F150, why can’t another guy spend his afternoon converting his truck bed into a vegetable patch?Anyhoo, Ian’s original truck farm caught the attention of others and there are now truck farms as far afield as Seattle, WA, Chicago, IL, Washington DC, Dallas, TX, Denver, CO and the city 4WheelOnline calls home; Tampa FL.

So we send a shout out to everyone who likes to customize and make their trucks into something special, whether that’s through performance modifications, aftermarket styling accessories, or even growing stuff in the back!

By John Bone