News About Farming in a Shipping Container
'People Have Lost The Connection With Food': Indoor Farm Hopes to Bring Fresh, Sustainable Products to Wisconsin, Northern Illinois
Founded in 2016 by Kimbal Musk, Elon's brother, and Tobias Peggs, Square Roots mission is to bring sustainable, freshly-farmed products to urban areas. The indoor farms are set up inside shipping-containers and take just 3-4 months of construction before they can be up and running
VIDEOS: A Potential Solution: Indoor Farming - Dr. Dickson Despommier
By the year 2050, nearly 80% of the earth’s population will reside in urban centers. Applying the most conservative estimates to current demographic trends, the human population will increase by about 3 billion people during the interim
VIDEOS: Shipping Container Farms by FarmBox Foods
FarmBox Foods discusses placing modular farms on school campuses to provide a hands-on learning environment for students of all ages
Russian Scientists Intend To Grow Vegetables In Antarctica
Researchers at the Vostok Antarctic base intend to grow watermelons and cucumbers this year, as reported by the Institute of Arctic and Antarctic Studies (AARI by its acronym in Russian)
How to Start A Farm To School Program With A Freight Farm
Morgan Hill Unified School District in Morgan Hill, CA, grows 60% of their lettuce needs (to feed 9,000 students) in just one Freight Farm
VIDEO: Mokena-Based Ditto Farms Provides Chicagoland With Organic Vertical Farmed Produce
You've heard of farming, but what about hydroponic farming? A Mokena-based farm is tackling this new way to farm produce in a shipping container farm
VIDEO: It’s Not Too Late: The Future of Farming?
ABC News’ Ginger Zee reports on what could be an important part of the future of farming and how possible solutions for food scarcity may lie inside shipping containers
US: Indiana Grown: New Age Provisions Farms
New Age Provisions, founded in 2018, specializes in commercial hydroponic farming. It is the first Indiana company to farm inside a shipping container
VIDEO: Inside Indy Food Deserts, Black Gardeners And Farmers Grow The Freshest Greens In Town
Recent studies show Indianapolis is one of the worst food deserts in the country. Inside these spaces, Black farms offer critical access points for nutrition
Farming In A SHIPPING CONTAINER!?
Hydro farming (vertical hydroponics) in a shipping container! join hope Cahill & myself as she spills all the deets on the Robbinsville hydroponic farm
GROOF - Greenhouses To Reduce CO2 on Roofs
GROOF is launching a new call for projects and offers one year of coaching to pioneers located in UK, Ireland, The Netherlands and Germany