Among the selected projects is The Orange Loop Container Park, an ambitious plan to transform a vacant lot into a thriving hydroponic farm and community space using repurposed shipping containers

Freight Farms’ mission is to create the global infrastructure to revolutionize local access to food. They are dedicated to making fresh food accessible to anyone, anywhere, any time with a complete platform of products and services

Container farming is growing plants or crops in special shipping containers instead of planting them in the ground and thirteen high school students just harvested the first crop in a container farm in Altgeld Gardens

The $5,823 will serve to build a safe storage area for the protective equipment students participating in the program wear when they work in the enclosed environment of the freight farm, said 2GetherWeEat founder Charles Luster

In early December 2023, a 40-foot by 8-foot container was delivered to Northern Illinois University (NIU) behind Anderson Hall. While resembling a standard shipping container, the unit houses a complete hydroponic farming system

In the heart of urban landscapes, a revolution is taking root. Vertical farming, once a niche curiosity, is now a burgeoning industry projected to reach $1.3 billion by 2027. This growth is driven by increasing demand for locally produced, fresh, and pesticide-free plants, year-round demand for crops, and the ease of monitoring and harvesting crops in a controlled environment

In this episode, I speak with Rick Vanzura, CEO of Freight Farms, who takes us on a captivating journey from his days in the retail trenches to becoming a trailblazer in the vertical farming industry

"Vertical- and indoor farmers especially have always had issues with financing their equipment. Especially when comparing the accessibility to capital that traditional farms have, or even other professionals' services like contractors

Tova started her hydroponic farming business VertiGreens in St. Louis, MO, to sell to the top chefs and restaurants in the area. With a now successful Freight Farm operation

A year after starting her microgreens business, she purchased a crop box, a modified and automated shipping container, and set it up in her backyard. One person running the shipping container five days a week for three to four hours a day produces three tons of microgreens annually, she says

Despite Colorado’s cold winter weather, two shipping containers at Uller’s Garden sprout vertical panels of lettuce, arugula and basil. Equal to five acres of land and using 95% less water, the hydroponic system feeds the growing rows of plants with essential nutrients from a constantly circulating water system while high efficiency LED lights supply them with all the sunshine they could need

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In a unique, non-traditional farming method of growing farm fodder inside a huge 40-foot long shipping container with automated climate control known as a Hydroponic Fodder Farm, people can harvest a staggering amount of barley grass through FarmBox Foods

Experience the future of sustainable protein with Atarraya at Economist Impact's 9th Annual Sustainability Week. Discover how our Shrimpbox Farms are redefining urban shrimp farming for a cleaner, local, and responsible protein future

The Federal funding agency expects to award approximately $6,100,000 through this opportunity. However, the agency retains the discretion to award a larger or lesser amount

Depending on your goals for a Freight Farming program, you can shift your focus from production and profit to education, crop experimentation, farm activities, or other opportunities

According to city officials, this will be the first of four markets scheduled to be held at the park in 2024

In the world of M&A, Freight Farms, the leading seller of container farms in North America, has entered into a merger agreement with Agrinam Acquisition Corp. to go public via SPAC

The Tontons Flowers team is a family structure made up of two brothers passionate about everything related to the environment and the culinary world

In February, Route 1 will place its first Freight Farm in the rural community of Loretto, population 650. It will be the first Black-owned freight farm in Minnesota.  “It allows the farmer..to take these farms and really place them wherever the need exists,” Carpenter told the Daily Yonder