News About Farming in a Shipping Container
Inside The Farm Growing In An AdventHealth Parking Lot
Inside a 320-square-foot repurposed shipping container is a hydroponic operation capable of matching a 3-acre farm's produce yield, a first of its kind initiative on a hospital campus.
UMass Chan’s Future ‘Wellness Farm’ To Serve As Living Laboratory of Community Collaboration
“The freight farm aligns with some of the key elements of our sustainability and climate action plan, specifically around grounds management and resource management as it relates to food systems and supports some of our energy goals,” said Suzanne Wood, associate director of sustainability and campus services at UMass Chan
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
VIDEO: Freight Farm Improves Access To Fresh Produce In A Community of Central Florida
AdventHealth is the first hospital in Central Florida to have an agricultural program. In 2022, AdventHealth developed a unique freight farm, improving the access to fresh produce in Central Florida
Fresh From the Farm
In the facility’s south parking lot near the Nicholson Center, the hospital administration has set up its 40-foot-by-8-foot Freight Farm. Freight Farms is a Boston-based agriculture technology company that manufactures and sells container farms — hydroponic farming systems assembled inside intermodal freight containers