News About Farming in a Shipping Container

Hydrofarm And CEA Advisors Announce Strategic Alliance

“Working with the Hydrofarm team, IGE, and Chris Mayer is a dream come true for a company like CEA Advisors,” said Glenn. “I’m convinced that collaboration is the key to success in today’s challenging economic environment

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VIDEO: USA - King Tides Farms - Charleston, South Carolina

They grow artisanal lettuces, unusual leafy greens, exotic herbs, and all varieties of microgreens. Each plant can be traced from seeding to eating and is delivered within hours of harvesting

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CANADA: Gourmet Mushroom Business Doesn't Need Much Room For Growth In Summerside

Deep inside the industrial park in Summerside, P.E.I., is a row of shipping containers. At any given time, one of the containers is full of fungi — king oyster, cinnamon cap, lion's mane, and blue oyster mushrooms among them

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VIDEO: Urban Farmer Thinks ‘Inside The Box,’ Grows Greens Inside Shipping Containers

Urban farmer DeMario Vitalis, of New Age Provisions in downtown Indianapolis, Ind., is leveraging the science of hydroponics to grow and sell unique, organic produce in an even-more-unique growing environment

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UNITED KINGDOM: Vertical Farming Comes To Chiswick

Greenhaus Farms is a small start-up company which has a shipping container full of plants in the car park at Chiswick Business Park. Harrison Pritchard and his two co-founders Nick Stace and Georgie Harper-Wilde have been operating there since last September. This is their pilot scheme, and if all goes well they are hoping to expand across London and throughout the UK

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VIDEO - The Future of Food - 7 - Vertical Farming: 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 plant

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Container Farming: Exploring A New Sustainable Agriculture Model

Container agriculture is a sustainable agriculture, and agricultural planting inside containers is very convenient as long as electricity and water are available

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Laredo Shipping Container Farm Places Second In National Contest

They feel it helps showcase their cause, as they prepare to make their shipping container farm fully operational in the next few weeks for the community

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VIDEO: Minnesota: Urban Farm Grows Fresh Greens For Restaurants, Residents

Restaurants looking for locally-grown, fresh produce during the winter months must turn to a different type of farm, one in which the complete growing system is in a climate-controlled box

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FarmBox Foods Joins the International Phytobiomes Alliance

Colorado-based FarmBox Foods takes upcycled shipping containers and transforms them into controlled-climate container farms in which mushrooms, leafy greens, culinary herbs, micro greens, peppers, fodder, and other plants can be sustainably grown

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Shrimpbox-Maker Atarraya Begins USD 25 million Series B Fundraising Round

Atarraya markets its Shrimpbox – essentially a shipping container that has been converted into a small commercial shrimp farm – as a shrimp-in-a-box systems that allows for economical, low-impact, hyper-local shrimp farming

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VIDEO: Everything You Need To Know About Oyster Mushrooms

In this video, Vertical Greens will cover everything you need to know about oyster mushrooms. From their nutritional benefits to how to prepare and cook them, you'll learn all the essentials in just a few minutes.

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USA: ALABAMA - Students Plan Plant-Based Meals For Earth Week

Auburn students, Grace Reilein, Emory Morgan and Elie Creswell, partnered with Tiger Dining and the Sustainability Capstone course to celebrate Earth Week by providing plant-based meals at The Edge

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