News About Farming in a Shipping Container

The First Wheelchair Accessible Modular Farm In Canada? (April 2023)

What does a wheelchair-accessible farm look like? Ask Reena who collaborated with Growcer and the Rick Hansen Foundation to develop the first accessible modular farm in Canada

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Celebrating Harvest Day At Vernon Hill School's Freight Farm Program

The 2gether We Eat nonprofit recently received a $265,000 grant to buy a freight farm and operate it at Vernon Hill School. Students celebrated their first harvest of leafy greens Wednesday by sharing the food with family and friends

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Scaling Vertical Farming: Siemens Ensures Perfect Plant Growth

Growing lettuce in the desert using environmentally friendly methods? Yes, it’s possible. Looking ahead, it’s important to start developing new concepts for agriculture. By 2050, 10 billion people are expected to live on our planet, and they’ll all want to be fed

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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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NEW YORK STATE: Vertical Farming Operation Considers Olean For Site

Ellicottville Greens grows more than 20 different kinds of vegetable greens in specialized shipping containers like this one behind Eastern Hills Mall in Clarence

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