EWEN, Mich. (WLUC) - K-5 students at Ewen-Trout Creek School took a step into a mobile farm lab to learn a bit about agriculture

Just 5 gallons of water per day and the right amount of LED lighting, carbon dioxide, nutrients, and humidity can yield bountiful harvests in shipping container farms — no pesticides or herbicides needed

The pre-built 40-foot shipping containers (manufactured by Freight Farms in Boston) are climate-controlled and can operate year-round, providing approximately 320 square feet of vertical growing space, and producing the output of nearly 3.5 acres of flat farming each, or 8 tons of produce

“We see significant potential for Square Roots farms across our U.S. and Canadian distribution footprint,” said Wolowski of GFS. “We’ll pace our investments consistent with demand and other market conditions, beginning with several sites already planned in the next 12 months.”

FarmBox Foods is based in Sedalia and has spent four year developing automated farms in shipping containers. The container farms use hydroponic water systems that consume 90% less water than traditional farms in a fully controlled growing environment, according to the company

Utilizing proprietary thrive containers, the hub will grow an equivalent of 16-20 acres of traditional farmland on 1/3 acre lots. In addition to the growing containers, Brick Street Farms has designed and engineered additional containers which fulfill the other required aspects of the facility: centralized systems, retail, dry storage, and cold storage

Many of our customers care first and foremost about growing locally. We support customers throughout the growing process and the lifetime of their container farm,” says Stephanie Gordon, editor-in-chief at The Growcer, an Ottawa-based agtech company that builds turnkey container farming solutions

Container farms are becoming increasingly popular within the controlled environment agriculture industry. These farms are usually vertical farming systems installed inside a shipping container. So why are so many manufacturers and businesses using this model? And what makes LettUs Grow’s DROP & GROW container farm special?

VCTV (Valemount Community TV) story of the inaugural harvest of the Valemount Learning Centre's Village Greens hydroponic growing container project in Valemount, BC, August, 2021

Are you looking for a fresh addition to your co-op grocery store? Adding a container farm allows your store to be the source of some of the freshest, locally-grown, resource-efficient produce

With a Growcer farm, the store gained a turn-key solution to grow high-quality greens steps away from the store, and satisfy the demand for locally grown produce

A whole lot of green will be sprouting up at one school. Friday, AppHarvest unveiled its new container farm at the Carter G. Woodson Academy. This is the first container farm at a metro-area school

Operating in multiple areas across 21 countries, including construction, real estate, agricultural technologies, and energy production, CY Group wants to help make up for agricultural lands that are facing yield loss or are impacted by climate change and environmental disasters

The University of York has teamed up with LettUs Grow, an indoor farming technology provider from Bristol and Spark:York, to create “Grow It York” - a vertical, community farm at the heart of a vibrant container park in the city

n 2019, the Lotus House community expanded its resources and programming with the arrival of a Greenery container farm. The farm is the cornerstone of the nonprofit’s educational programs for young residents, inspiring their curiosity about science, plants, and nutrition

Even if the temperature inevitably drops below zero in winter, kale, lettuce and other leafy vegetables will continue to grow in the Sota Grown Indoor Food Production Container in the Ag & Energy Research Center on the CLC’s Staples campus, feeding those in need in the community

Freight Farms, a 2011 Agtech company that pioneered hydroponics-based container farming, is committed to preparing the world for the next disaster by reinventing the way we grow food

With its global infrastructure, CMO James Woolard tells We First, the company aims to expand its efforts to revolutionize local access to food for a more sustainable future. Not only in terms of the environment but by increasing local community resilience and security

Container farming uses a hydroponic growing system to commercially grow a variety of fresh produce more sustainably and year-round

My previous experience with aquaponics reminded me of Freight Farms, a Boston farm manufacturer with a great track record of successful farms worldwide. Their farm design was expandable, and vegetables could grow in any weather condition