The goal is to make this technology accessible to everyone, including small-scale farmers, by organizing seminars and workshops to share knowledge and experience

Thanks to a grant from the Cleveland Foundation Lake-Geauga Fund, the Veterans Center at Lakeland Community College is hosting a series of hydroponic farming workshops that aim to promote personal growth and wellness through agriculture

Fresh produce can be hard to get sometimes. It depends on your location, the time of year, and many other factors. That's why there's a push to lighten that load here in New York with a kind of high-rise farming

A sprawling metropolis like London may seem an unlikely place to grow food, but urban farms could be key for ensuring greater food security as the climate crisis worsens

Toronto, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - December 15, 2023) - Agrinam Acquisition Corporation ("Agrinam") announced today that it has exercised its second three-month extension option to extend its permitted timeline to complete a qualifying acquisition to March 15, 2024 by depositing an additional U.S.$400,000 in cash into escrow

Columbia, S.C.-based Senn Brothers Produce recently launched its own vertical farming operation and introduced its indoor-grown private-label brand, Sensational Fresh

Hidden away in the back of a Center Street parking lot, by a steep bank that falls into the Black River, is a 40-by-8-by-10-foot white metal box that looks like a standard shipping container

Last week the Uniontown district received a hydroponic farm from Leafy Green Farms

A new urban farm at the Quad City Botanical Center is helping combat food security in the local community, but it might not look like any farm you're used to

Freight Farms – a Boston-based agriculture technology company – is changing the game for farming practices across the country

Despite its bent and corroded exterior, the shipping container in Greater Fifth Ward is alight inside with grow lamps and leafy lettuce. PVC piping, strung along the side of the container, holds tiny plastic pots with baby lettuce. Harvested lettuce sits on a table near the entrance, free for the taking

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

Officials at IDEA Eastside took a shipping container and converted it into an indoor farm. Leafy green vegetables are grown in columns that are exposed to LED lights and purified water.

Meet Freight Farms, an AgTech startup founded in 2012 that provides hydroponic farming solutions in shipping containers. The company plans to merge with blank-check company Agrinam Acquisition Corp. (TSX: AGRI.U)

“Anything we can’t harvest for people, we compost so nothing goes to waste. We apply these nutrients to our plants, and we gather any water condensed out of the air conditioner to go back into the hydroponics system. The only nutrients leaving the Vertical Farms are those inside the plants.”

The University of North Texas Dining Services has earned a stellar reputation nationwide for its unwavering commitment to sustainability and self-sufficiency

Freight farming is an agricultural method that turns a shipping container into a mobile hydroponic farm. Right now nearly 90% of Hawaiʻi’s food is imported, but Oʻahu resident Sasha Leitner hopes her new business, Hawaii Greens Freight Farms, can help change that

The future for shipping container farms appears promising, as they offer several advantages in terms of agricultural production and sustainability. Here are some potential trends and developments we might expect

Through the Vertical Farming Initiative at Oilfields School, junior and senior high students grow a variety of herbs and microgreens in a specially-built, 40-foot sea can that has been converted to sustainably grow produce year-round

The future of farming is here inside several modified shipping containers, tucked away in a downtown Metter warehouse