News About Farming in Shipping Containers & Limited Indoor Spaces
VIDEO: A White-Board Animation Showing The Impacts of Growing Produce In A Vertical Hydroponic Farm Made By FarmBox Foods
Watch our new whiteboard video, which briefly illustrates the benefits of growing produce in the Vertical Hydroponic Farms we build and sell. If you're so inclined, share it with your network
ACTX Is Improving Food Traceability And Safety Through Controlled Environment Agriculture
The compact and modular design of GrowPods enables year-round cultivation, allowing farmers to cultivate fresh produce regardless of geographical constraints or seasonal limitations
S8E104: Sepehr Achard / iGrow News - From Finance To Farming: My iGrow News Journey To CEA
"I like to uncover other perspectives. I think that way too often a lot of news sources and a lot of news outlets, they're kind of influencing the opinion that people will have on a particular subject."
VIDEO: Urban Bounty Farms Shipping Container Growing Helping Vets
One metro farming business is using a small space to make a big difference for local military veterans. Urban Bounty Farms uses creative ways to grow food inside. FOX4 first told you about their 6,000-square-foot East Bottoms location in April
5 Reasons Why Cities Should Create An Office of Urban Agriculture
The mission of an urban agriculture office reaches across an array of city priorities, from housing and health to public park use and zoning
Grow It York: The Vertical Farm Under Our Noses
Whilst this container was primarily being used to grow herbs and leafy greens, it could be used to grow potatoes with a deeper tray, or heads of lettuce with a higher space to grow. Although, those would both be less efficient in terms of the usage of space as they would not be able to have as many trays in the container
Top 7 Questions Boys & Girls Clubs Have About Freight Farms
We provide training before you start farming. Either: Farm Camp: Training in a group setting at our headquarters with other new Freight Farmers. Or, On-Site Launch: At your location, with you, your farm operator, Club educators, and any other stakeholders, our team helps you launch your farm and trains you in operating it
Freight Farms Partners With Local Line To Empower New Farmers
Ontario-based Local Line, founded in 2015, aims to assist existing and aspiring farmers on their path to profitable farming. The platform offers a range of features, such as price lists for different customer segments, inventory management, invoicing, and payment options – all designed to help farmers grow their businesses or kickstart their operations
USA - WISCONSIN - VIDEO: Square Roots Kenosha Uses New Farming Techniques To Reduce Food Deserts
Don't let its compact size fool you -- this farm is putting out a lot of produce. Walking through the Square Roots facility in Kenosha only takes a minute or two – it’s 20 shipping containers stacked on top of each other
How Has Vertical Farm Design Changed Over The Years?
See the progression of the Growcer Osiris vertical farm and the reasons behind the improvements
The Rise of Hydro-Tech Farms: Revolutionizing Agriculture
Growing plants in indoor facilities where environmental conditions are carefully monitored and regulated is known as controlled environment agriculture (CEA)
USA - CALIFORNIA: Impello Biosciences Partners With Morgan Hill Unified School District To Enhance Student Nutrition Program
Impello's advanced biostimulants help us boost crop yields, quality, and resilience within our Freight Farms and greenhouses, directly benefiting students with more nutritious and flavorful produce in their free meals provided by MHUSD
CANADA: Gourmet Mushroom Business Doesn't Need Much Room For Growth In Summerside
Deep inside the industrial park in Summerside, P.E.I., is a row of shipping containers. At any given time, one of the containers is full of fungi — king oyster, cinnamon cap, lion's mane, and blue oyster mushrooms among them
Hydroponic Farm Boosts Healthy Eating, Special-Needs Jobs At NC University
To bring the hydroponic farming operation to life on campus, Produce Purpose will also be partnering with Freight Farms, a hydroponic technology company based in Boston
CANADA: Hudson Bay Couple Cultivates Local Produce With Hydroponics
An old elementary school in Hudson Bay has been transformed into a hydroponic farming facility that provides fresh vegetables all year
UNITED KINGDOM: Vertical Farming Comes To Chiswick
Greenhaus Farms is a small start-up company which has a shipping container full of plants in the car park at Chiswick Business Park. Harrison Pritchard and his two co-founders Nick Stace and Georgie Harper-Wilde have been operating there since last September. This is their pilot scheme, and if all goes well they are hoping to expand across London and throughout the UK
VIDEO - The Future of Food - 7 - Vertical Farming: Thinking Inside The Box
Inside their shipping container farm, in West Des Moines, Iowa, thousands of red and blue LED lights create a purple glow as they shine on a series of 7-foot-tall vertical panels draped with growing plant
Container Farming: Exploring A New Sustainable Agriculture Model
Container agriculture is a sustainable agriculture, and agricultural planting inside containers is very convenient as long as electricity and water are available
Seven Stars Resort & Spa’s Newest Restaurant ‘The Farm’ Is Opened In Grace Bay
The Farm started when we got our freight farm and when it was delivered on-site we said, you know what, why don’t we just build a restaurant onto the freight farm