News About Farming in a Shipping Container

Transforming Shipping Containers Into Hyperlocal Food Systems

Hear Mary Kathryn's passionate discourse on the hard work and dedication it takes to bring to life a hyperlocal food system. We traverse the unique intricacies of setting up a container farm, and the importance of harnessing the power of partnerships in this sector

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Brick Street Farms: Bringing Farm To Fork In Urban Communities

Today, 20 farm containers are at their hub on 20th Street  S;  another, at Publix in Lakeland. This equals what 65-70 acres of farmland could produce per month. A retail store at the St. Pete location offers local meat, eggs and milk in addition to the lettuce, herbs, and microgreens Brick Street grows

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Why Grow Leafy Greens?

In this guest submission, Madalyn Higgins, dietitian and sustainability manager at Acadia University makes the case for leafy greens. Hydroponic farms are mainly used to grow leafy greens - but what makes this so great?

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NORTH AMERICA: La Sierra University To Launch Ten New Academic Programs This Fall

Toward moving the university into the expanding sustainability field, La Sierra, in 2022, began developing a sustainability park complete with an off-grid experimental geodesic dome, greenhouse, and two environmentally-controlled, technologically outfitted shipping containers for Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) developed by Freight Farms, an urban farming company

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Federal Funding Opportunities For Indoor Agriculture: A Comprehensive Guide For Entrepreneurs And Organizations

Ceres Greenhouse Solutions has prepared an informative and downloadable PDF that will explore the various federal funding options available to clients looking to start or expand indoor agriculture projects who are seeking funding that they can qualify for and apply towards indoor agriculture costs

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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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Vertical Farming: A Tech-Driven Approach To Feed The World

This innovative approach to agriculture is a radical departure from traditional farming methods, leveraging technology to cultivate crops in vertically stacked layers, often in controlled environments such as buildings, shipping containers, or skyscrapers

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Get Into To This 18-Wheeler Transformed Into An Organic Urban Farm

When Derek Drake started his company Ditto Foods, he had one mission: to focus on social responsibility and sustainability by providing the highest quality produce to Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) groups, wholesalers, and local restaurants. Now, the 18-wheel semi-truck parked in his driveway is one of the most exciting and innovative farming companies in Chicago

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VIDEO: Local Family Opens First of Its Kind Farm

Their hydroponics farm uses vertically what would have been the horizontal equivalent of three acres of farmland and feeds the water and nutrients through a pipe

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La Sierra University Will Launch 10 New Academic Programs

One container arrived in 2021 for use by the university’s Enactus team to grow leafy greens and herbs utilizing hydroponics-based agriculture. Last school year, the team began using the container to provide education in sustainable agriculture and business practices for local at-risk youth

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Addressing Food Insecurity In Arid Regions With An Open-Source Evaporative Cooling Chamber Design

And, as the chamber is designed to be built in a used shipping container — ubiquitous the world over — the project is a great example of up-cycling

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Hamilton Horne’s Top 10 Tips For How To Sell Produce To Restaurants

Hamilton Horne is the highly successful entrepreneur behind King Tide Farms, a Freight Farming business in Charleston, SC. He sells produce to the city’s high-end restaurants, whose chefs love the microgreens, flavorful leafy greens, and herbs that he grows

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Hydroponics: The Soilless Future of Urban Farming

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, almost 34 million US citizens face severe food insecurity. Adding fuel to the fire, the USA lost 4 million acres of fertile agricultural land to urbanization in 2020 alone

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Square Roots Pauses Commercial Production, Pivots To ‘Farming As A Service’ Model

A company spokesperson recently confirmed with The Packer that the controlled environment agriculture company is pausing commercial production at several of its farms and moving to a “farming as a service” business model. What this major shift means for the company is still unclear

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VIDEO: Urban Bounty Farms Shipping Container Growing Helping Vets

One metro farming business is using a small space to make a big difference for local military veterans. Urban Bounty Farms uses creative ways to grow food inside. FOX4 first told you about their 6,000-square-foot East Bottoms location in April

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