From the outside, it's a 40-foot by 9-foot revamped shipping container, but there's plenty more than meets the eye inside the Westport store's curious new annex that sits at the end of its parking lot. Inside you'll find a 2.5-acre working farm

"Sustainability drives the core of our operations," said Vinnie Lima, Managing Member at GetBlok Farms. "Our approach for hyper-local and highly sustainable farming methods must address the energy consumption in hydroponic farms

The grow container, made by Freight Farms, was purchased by the school through a generous donation from Meta Platforms Inc. — the parent company of Facebook — which has a data center in Eagle Mountain. Freight Farms containers can be owned by anyone wanting to use one

RAIN, a part of the Sault Ste. Marie Innovation Centre, provides agriculture-related support and resources to producers across Northern Ontario, while Truly Northern and AgriTech North are container farms using sophisticated hydroponic systems to grow greens year-round

BoomGrow turns repurposed shipping containers into 'machine farms' to grow pesticide-free vegetables with a reduced carbon footprint

A hydroponic system, the Freight Farm is contained within a storage unit sitting not far from the geothermal greenhouse. The Uhrenholdt’s purchased their Freight Farm from a company in Boston. The first planting was in October of last year

Tapestry Farms represents a new type of innovative farmer using technology provided by Freight Farms to use very little resources and only 320 sq foot of space to produce up to 6 tons of food annually to provide enough food to feed the people they serve while donating surplus to local pantries thanks to River Bend Food Bank

Students in a Haverhill YMCA after-school program are growing their own vegetables and herbs. Only they aren't doing it on a plot of land, but instead hydroponically inside a specially designed shipping container called a Freight Farm

Each container features a state-of-the-art controlled environment with a hydroponic system running on less than 5 gallons of water per day. Willams says he can grow a thousand pounds of lettuce per month per container

AmplifiedAg announces the contract award from the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in Fort Pierce, Florida, to supply vertical farming research labs to the agency's Horticultural Research Laboratory

This year CT DoAg has up to $1 million to award for projects and an additional $2 million for shipping container farms that are connected to schools through procurement and educational activities. Grant guidance will be announced in the coming weeks

The indoor farm is only the second AODA-compliant farm in Canada and Growcer worked directly with the Rick Hanson Foundation to design the Osiris Access unit

Don Taylor, founder and CEO of AmplifiedAg, shares his inspiration, insights and hopes for his company and the CEA industry. “We formed Vertical Roots really with the intention of operating production-scale farms to understand the complexities that the farmers are facing from an operations perspective.”

Freight Farms, Inc. and Agrinam Acquisition Corporation have signed a definitive agreement for a business combination with a pro forma market cap valuation for the combined entity of approximately US$147 million

Hydroponic container farms offer a unique solution by providing inmates with hands-on training in an engaging and therapeutic environment. This blog explores how this sustainable and efficient farming technique can contribute to breaking the cycle of recidivism

As the exclusive provider to Growterra, Nature's Miracle will collaborate alongside Growterra throughout the entire process - from manufacturing to field deployment - to enhance and improve a line of containerized growing units

Indoor Farming and Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) releases the cultivation process from numerous environmental factors

A shipping container turned into a hydroponic greenhouse will mark a new front in London's battle for food security

AmplifiedAg introduces the Enterprise Farm Health (EFH) function on its AmpEDGE farm software platform. The EFH function offers a unified view of an entire farming enterprise, including supply chain data

Oasis Springs is an urban hydroponic farm built by Sarah and Chris Ward, a marketing/PR professional and an IT company head, who both had an interest in sustainable hydroponic growing