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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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