News About Farming in a Shipping Container

US: Pennsylvania - Methacton High School’s Hydroponic Farm Has Growing Impact On Students, Community

Students at Methacton High School are growing vegetables in an unlikely place – a shipping crate. It’s called a Hydroponic Farm. Inside the shipping crate, plants grow in vertical rows, without soil, using a mineral rich water system

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VIDEO: Food To Change The World: How To Grow Rice And Fish In Urban Vertical Farms

Innovators from Aqualita Ecotechnology have developed a shipping container fish farming system while scientists from the Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory are testing out a multi-storey rice farm

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VIDEO: New Additions to Customer Success at Freight Farms - Spring 2022

This video outlines the major projects our Crop Research, Training, and Support teams have been working on to benefit both new and veteran growers, as well as what we have in store for later in the year

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VIDEO: Are High-Tech Containers The Future of Farming?

FarmBox Foods, based in Sedalia, Colorado, has spent the last four years developing automated farms in shipping containers to grow gourmet mushrooms, organic leafy greens, culinary herbs, peppers, small tomatoes and fodder for livestock.

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FarmBox Foods Finds More Uses For Shipping Container Farms

FarmBox Foods, which provides hydroponic vertical farms for grocery stores and other businesses, recently branched into the production of fodder for livestock

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How Can Vertical Farmers Power Through The Energy Crisis?

Nations across the globe are currently experiencing an unprecedented combination of events that have led to energy prices sky-rocketing.

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Vertical Farm Tech Business Backs Farm-In-A-Shipping-Container Startup

Vertical farming business Vertical Future has deepened its relationship with urban shipping container indoor farm company Crate to Plate, to support the latter’s rapid expansion across the south east

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Thailand: Introducing "FlexiFarm" – Innovative Smart Model of “Instant Container Farming"

FlexiFarm, an innovative container farming solution, is introducing a smart new alternative to traditional farming in Thailand. This ready-made, movable and sustainable way of farming requires less space and yields cost-effective products

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How Plants Can Help People Grow

Posting as Garden Marcus on TikTok, Mr. Bridgewater, 33, has shown his 653,000 followers how planting a sweet potato vine in a new spot can help it flourish, a reminder that many living things can benefit from a change of scenery

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Bridgeport Hydroponic Farm To Receive $1 Million Federal Grant

The farm, which was previously announced early in 2021, would consist of shipping containers where produce would be grown using hydroponics, where plants are grown using a mixture of nutrients in water instead of soil. The process can lead to much faster harvesting times

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Container Farm Solution Appreciated By Norway And Arab Countries

"We raised the interest of several entrepreneurs. Our Demetra solution for vertical farming in disused and repurposed containers has received great interest at Fruit Logistica," said Daniele Bertocchi with Greatit.

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Are Indoor Farms The Future Of The Midwest?

Health is wealth. Smart farm innovator Square Roots and Gordon Food Services have teamed up to bring their fourth "smart farm" to central Ohio, along with heaps of healthy produce. The new Springfield facility plans to open its doors this summer

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