News About Farming in a Shipping Container

VIDEO: Colorado-Based FarmBox Foods Expands to Address Food Insecurity and Sustainability

"With our containers, we're able to meet some of the challenges that traditional farming has struggled with," Cammack said.

Cammack says the climate-controlled containers use 95% less water than traditional farming and are more energy efficient. They can grow food year-round, in harsh climates, and urban environments.

"It only takes up about five parking spaces to land one of these containers, so you can land these in the middle of a city and be growing 2.5 acres annually right there behind a restaurant," Cammack said.

The container farm-to-table concept also eliminates the food loss and the environmental toll of supply chain food transport.

Farmbox sells the containers to restaurants, schools, grocery chains, health care systems, farmers, ranchers and wholesalers.

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'A Critical Lifeline': Colorado-Based FarmBox Foods Shares How New Partnership Will Help Better The World

Following its announcement of a new partnership, Denver7 traveled to Sedalia to meet with Colorado-based FarmBox Foods LLC and learn how its container farms will soon help people around the world.

The Colorado company outfits 320-square-foot storage units into standalone hydroponic farms that run on low-power and limited water to grow a wealth of nutrient-rich produce.

This week, FarmBox Foods announced it has partnered with New A.G.E., a technology company, in order to place container farms at 450 "strategic locations across the world." The farms will produce about 100 million servings of food for underserved communities, according to a release from both companies.

The containers will be shipped over the next six years.

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This Co-Op Is Growing Baby Trees In A Shipping Container To Help Reforest Colorado's Burn Scars

Today, they're growing in a shipping container. Soon, hopefully, they'll take root in Colorado's forests.

It's a nontraditional start for hundreds of baby trees meant to reforest areas burned by wildfire, in a project between a Colorado-based power cooperative and a group of innovative farmers.

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City Greens Plants Roots In Beverly Hills

The community farm’s headquarters is located in West L.A. in a similarly space-saving location – inside a shipping container at the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center. “It’s pretty remarkable. It’s the equivalent of two and a half acres of outdoor production inside one shipping container, using about 90% less water and 95% less land,” Levy said.

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Sustainable Food Production Isn’t Just Possible, It’s Inevitable

At FarmBox Foods, we strive to change the way the world farms by connecting communities to sustainably sourced, locally grown food, year-round. With a focus on producing environmentally conscious and future-oriented food systems, we seek to end food inequality with our innovative and eco-friendly farms

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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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Farm in a Box

High school students from Cleveland suburbs Euclid, Wickliffe, and Mentor are growing crops in a unique environment that teaches them about the future of high-tech farming while offering insight into modern agriculture business.

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Surprise Viral Video Puts Spotlight 0n Tech-Driven Container Farms

FarmBox Foods delivers container farms worldwide and trains customers how to grow in their own farm. The company has delivered the insulated, controlled-climate farms all the way from Alaska and Canada to Jamaica and Tahiti

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What Does The Future Look Like For Shipping Container Farms

The future for shipping container farms appears promising, as they offer several advantages in terms of agricultural production and sustainability. Here are some potential trends and developments we might expect

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Bringing Food Production To Islands

Did you know FarmBox Foods has delivered (via our sister company, Absolute Logistics) container farms to Jamaica and Tahiti? One is a mushroom farm, the other is a Vertical Hydroponic Farm. We also just dropped one off on Grand Cayman in late July

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Edible Beats Shows Dedication To Sustainability With BeatBox Farms

Restaurant Group with a FarmBox Featured in 303 Magazine. For restaurateur and chef Justin Cucci, sustainability and community are the most important aspects of running a restaurant

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St. Vrain Valley Schools Wins Award For Nutrition Services

These initiatives include a FarmBox hydroponic storage container farm; a student-led leafy greens food service business and hyper-local salad bars featuring produce from local farming partners.

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Hydroponics Bringing The Farm To Denver With New Market

Lemon basil so fresh it tastes like Froot Loops, chocolate mint, orange thyme, and 49 other plant varieties all grown from indoor vertical towers. This is just the start for Farm and Market, the new market and restaurant opening up in RiNo in mid-September

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COLORADO: Edible Beats Restaurant Announces Hydroponic Farms At Vital Root

 Edible Beats, the 100% Employee-Owned Denver-based restaurant group founded by Chef Justin Cucci, has announced the installation of a Hydroponic FarmBox by Colorado-based FarmBox Foods in the backyard of their plant-based Denver staple, Vital Root

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FarmBox Foods Joins the International Phytobiomes Alliance

Colorado-based FarmBox Foods takes upcycled shipping containers and transforms them into controlled-climate container farms in which mushrooms, leafy greens, culinary herbs, micro greens, peppers, fodder, and other plants can be sustainably grown

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FarmBox Foods Talks Container Farming At Indoor Ag-Con

While FarmBox Foods, a Colorado-based manufacturer of containerized farms, has made its name with a tech-driven Vertical Hydroponic Farm, it’s increasingly gaining attention for its start-to-finish Gourmet Mushroom Farm

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