News About Farming in a Shipping Container

Former Factory Farmers Turn To Alternative Tarming Trend Thanks To A Dedicated Organization: 'This Is The Healthy Way of Making Food'

Farmers across the U.S. are ditching industrial livestock farms for more sustainable and healthier vegetable farms, per a report by the Guardian. 

Thanks to Transformation, an organization dedicated to helping farmers leave poultry farming and begin vegetable farming, farmers now have the resources and knowledge to make the sustainable switch. 

On top of providing farmers with technical support, Transformation also gives grants ranging between $10,000 and $20,000 to farmers transitioning away from poultry farming. 

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Seaweed Farming And Wetlands In A Box: How Governors Island Has Become A Climate Lab

Six initiatives received $10,000 grants and access to a shared pool of $100,000 to jumpstart projects, as well as space on the island to install the equipment needed to pilot the ideas.

They run the gamut from air quality monitoring efforts by community group South Bronx Unite, carbon dioxide removal from a company called Vycarb and a vertical hydroponic farm in a shipping container, managed by the nonprofit GrowNYC.

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UNITED KINGDOM: George Richards Farms, Cornwall Self-Storage Containers Hub

George Richards Farms have applied to site 18 containers, with the continued use of two more, on land at Higher Trefullock Farm, Summercourt, in order to diversify into a self-storage business.

Each existing container, and each proposed container, will be 20ft long x 8ft wide x 8.6ft high with a dark green finish. The containers at the site will solely be for self-storage purposes. The site will be commercially operated, with containers rented out to customers on a rolling month-to-month basis.

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New Zealand: Taupō Mushroom Farm: City Couple’s Business Sprouts From Pandemic

Forage’s HQ is a 600 square metre warehouse brimming with shipping containers and climate-controlled, purpose-built equipment and mushroom grow kits which the pair sell online to those who want to grow their own in just six days.

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From Livestock To Lion’s Mane, The Latest From The Transfarmation Project

In an old tobacco barn in North Carolina, Craig Watts completed three trial runs growing shiitakes before he felt ready to scale up. Then, he pulled a shipping container into one of the four giant barns that have been sitting empty on his farm and connected plumbing and electrical systems that once provided water and lighting for thousands of chickens destined to become Perdue products.

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Stonington Mushroom Farmer Tackles Energy Costs With Solar Power

Farmer Chris Pacheco prides himself on growing food and feeding people, but at his farm there are no green fields or hoop houses cultivated with rows of vegetables. Instead, his growhouses are climate-controlled, commercial shipping containers where he produces about 1,000 pounds of mushrooms per week that are sold across the state at farmers markets and restaurants.

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Produce Now Launches Innovative Mushroom Farming Initiative With GrowPods

The concept of farming in a specially designed indoor farm inside a well-designed and equipped shipping container has gained significant traction among agricultural entrepreneurs or "farmtrepreneurs" across the United States.

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How Hyperlocal Container Farming Is Revolutionizing Access To Fresh Food In Toronto, Canada

Our mission is simple yet profound: to provide our community with access to the freshest, most nutritious mushrooms possible, all while minimizing our carbon footprint and supporting local food systems. And we're proud to say that we're doing just that, one mushroom at a time.

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Northern Illinois University Unveils 'Hydropod' Project To Research Nutritious Food Growth

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

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Meet The Farmer Who Pivoted In Her Fifties From A Law Firm To A Microgreens Farm

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

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Local Indoor-Grown Food Vendors Utilize Grocery Delivery Service PineMelon To Fill Seasonal Produce Gaps In Denver

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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Shipping Containers Newest Farming Option In Controlled Climate

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

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New Global Reporting Tool Keeps Farmers On Track

AmplifiedAg, a supplier of indoor farms, equipment, and software, built a multi-tenant software platform, AmpEDGE, that can either be used to manage one- or multiple farms which provides all the environmental and operational information needed to run a farm, from small to enterprise scale

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Could Container Farms Revolutionize The Farming Industry?

Typically constructed within redundant buildings or warehouse units, vertical farms are becoming an established sector of the farming industry, but what about container farms? In simple terms, a container farm is a vertical farming system that is built inside a shipping container

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Rooted In Knowledge: FAQS About Horticulture Technicians, Farm Support And Growcer Farms

Horticulture Technicians are all about plant health. Their role records and tracks plant growth, makes sure that the plants receive the right amount of water and nutrients, and to carry out treatment if—or when—a plant shows signs of disease or pest damage. They can work either in outdoor agriculture environments or indoors working with hydroponic production systems or in greenhouses

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What's Inside This Shipping Container In Downtown Ottawa?

Inside this shipping container in downtown Ottawa, Dylan Mitchell, a farm operator with Heartee Foods, is growing and harvesting several varieties of gourmet mushrooms

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Q&A With Don Taylor, AmplifiedAg Founder, And CEO

Don Taylor, founder and CEO of AmplifiedAg, shares his inspiration, insights and hopes for his company and the CEA industry. “We formed Vertical Roots really with the intention of operating production-scale farms to understand the complexities that the farmers are facing from an operations perspective.”

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