News About Farming in a Shipping Container

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 plants

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Las Vegas Inaugurates Urban Farm In Historic Westside

The city on Wednesday afternoon hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony outside a pair of 40-foot shipping containers converted into hydroponic pods, which sits in the previously-shuttered James Gay III Park near Harrison Avenue and B Street

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LAREDO, TEXAS - Local Shipping Container Farm In Final Round of National Competition

Although the two shipping containers have different designs and will be created to grow different things, some of the main foods that they will create include microgreens, hydroponic strawberries, edible flowers and hydroponic lettuce

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5 Suggestions For Starting A Vertical Farm

Starting a vertical farm can be an exciting and rewarding venture, but it also requires careful planning and research. Here are five suggestions to consider when starting a vertical farm

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TURKS & CAICOS: The Farm Restaurant At Seven Stars Resort & Spa To Open Soon

The new restaurant concept, which will be located on the corner of Grace Bay Road, just west of the Seven Stars Resort entrance, will showcase a collection of chef-curated herbs, greens and produce grown and managed by the culinary team in its on-site Freight Farms hydroponic farm

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A School Uses A Freight Farm For FFA Programming And Agriculture Education

Lessons on the parts of seeds, plants, and flowers and their functions and on plant reproduction are intermixed with students being tasked with identifying careers around plant science.

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ZipGrow: Changing The Future of Food

Eric Lang, Founder and President of ZipGrow Inc. in Cornwall has a philosophy that works well for him. “Embrace change and make it work,” he says with confidence

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Could A Container Farm Be The Right Choice For Your CEA Facility?

Agritecture Designer recently introduced a new modeling feature: the ability to design container farms. This method of farming has many advantages for the right farmer and is a great way for smaller operations to get off the ground because of the (typically) lower CapEx involved in opening the farm

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Pinduoduo Designs Soil-Free Farming Event: From Containers To Tables, Growing Lettuce Using AI

Pinduoduo, one of China’s largest e-commerce companies, is hosting the third Smart Agriculture Competition on Chongming Island in Shanghai. The competition challenges four finalist teams to grow high-quality lettuce in 90 days without sunlight or soil

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Shrimp Farming Taking Off In The US

Perhaps making the biggest waves in shrimp aquaculture in 2022 was Atarraya, a start-up tech company based in Mexico City, Mexico, known for developing the Shrimpbox

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VIDEO: Ever Seen Saffron Grown Inside a Shipping Container?

Watch how this software engineer turned enthusiast farmer from Pune city earns lakhs by doing Kashmir saffron farming in a shipping container

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USA: COLORADO - Thinking Outside The Box by Farming Within It

FarmBox Foods LLC is on a mission to revolutionize farming. The small company, based out of Sedalia, repurposes shipping containers to grow food and fodder using highly efficient hydroponics

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