News About Farming in a Shipping Container

'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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VIDEO: From The Land: Hydroponic Farming With Freight Farms | Tomorrow’s Menu

Freight Farms’ mission is to create the global infrastructure to revolutionize local access to food. They are dedicated to making fresh food accessible to anyone, anywhere, any time with a complete platform of products and services

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VIDEO - USA - CHICAGO: Students Learn STEM Skills & Give Back To Community

Container farming is growing plants or crops in special shipping containers instead of planting them in the ground and thirteen high school students just harvested the first crop in a container farm in Altgeld Gardens

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Worcester, Massachusetts: Leominster Food Programs To Benefit From State Grants

The $5,823 will serve to build a safe storage area for the protective equipment students participating in the program wear when they work in the enclosed environment of the freight farm, said 2GetherWeEat founder Charles Luster

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Atarraya's Shrimpbox Farms Usher in the Future of Protein at Economist's Impact 9th Sustainability Week

Experience the future of sustainable protein with Atarraya at Economist Impact's 9th Annual Sustainability Week. Discover how our Shrimpbox Farms are redefining urban shrimp farming for a cleaner, local, and responsible protein future

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Brick Street Farms is on TV

Jimmy heads to the Tampa, Clearwater, and of course, St.Pete, where he stopped by our hydroponic farm and chatted with Briant and Brad and got up close and personal with the future of farming

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VIDEO: Chicago Farming Company Grows Fresh Produce In Shipping Containers To Help Fight Food Deserts

Ditto Foods is a Chicago-based hydroponic farming company combating food deserts by growing fresh produce in shipping containers — for a fraction of the price of traditional farming! CEO and founder Derek shares how he was inspired to start the company after losing his job during the pandemic

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VIDEO: Hear From Rick Vanzura, CEO of Freight Farms Live at ICR Conference 2024

IPO Edge hosted a fireside chat at the 2024 ICR Conference with Rick Vanzura, CEO of Freight Farms. The in-person interview was joined by Editor-in-Chief John Jannarone and they discussed future global trends and prospects for the agricultural technology industry

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VIDEO: How Vertical Farming Can Help Fix Our Food System

Can vertical farming revolutionize our food system? Yes, says Dr Alana Kluczkovski from the University of York's Centre for Novel Agricultural Products

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Freight Farms, Inc., To Participate In The 26th Annual ICR Conference

Rick Vanzura, Chief Executive Officer of Freight Farms, and Monalisa Shroff, Chief Financial Officer of Freight Farms, will participate in the 26th Annual ICR Conference, to be held January 8-10, 2024 in Orlando, Florida

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Curious About How We Keep Our Container Farms Top-Notch?


Head over to our YouTube channel for an exclusive behind-the-scenes video! We dive into our detailed Quality Assurance process, covering everything from HVAC to plumbing and electrical systems

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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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