News About Farming in a Shipping Container
Bringing The Farm To The People
A fleet of high-tech container farms is delivering locally-grown food security to communities from Alaska to Egypt
Modular Hydroponic Farms From ACTX Can Enhance Food Security
GrowPods Sold by Advanced Container Technologies Inc. (OTCMKTS:ACTX) Can Improve Food Security and Resolve Hunger Problems Globally
Modular Hydroponic Farms From ACTX Can Enhance Food Security
With GrowPods, food production can be done on a local level, virtually anywhere in the world
USA - Pennsylvania - VIDEO - Montco School District Has First Student-Run Hydroponic Farm In State
The vertical hydroponic farm itself is located inside of a custom-building shipping container, whose state-of-the-art design includes technology that allows electricity and fresh water to be inserted into the container's frame
How Grow Pod Solutions Are Aiding Global Food Security
Grow Pod Solutions (sometimes referred to as GP Solutions) has created a product they call a container farm – a complete farm inside a shipping container. The container farms use a mixture of human operation and automation
USA: PITTSBURG, Kansas - PHS Students Recycle To Give Back
Today was the first harvest of produce from the school’s new shipping container farm. Thanks to a partnership with Leafy Green Farms, this is allowing the students of PHS to get hands-on training for one of the latest advancements in agriculture, like the students in Aubry Ross’ botany class
UNITED KINGDOM: LettUs Grow & Vertically Urban Partner To Light Up Container Farms
DROP & GROW container farms are vertical farming systems inside a shipping container
The Trendy, Spendy Future of Tech-Enabled Indoor Farming
The Boston company Freight Farms builds farms into shipping containers for clients who want to feed a small community or run a business. In 10 years it has gone from a Kickstarter campaign to growing food for Google’s office lunches
USA; DENVER, COLORADO - DougCo’s Mountain Vista HS Pioneers Freight To Farm Program
(Castle Rock, CO) Five years ago, Mountain Vista High School teacher David Larson applied for and won a grant from Mind Spark Learning and the Mortgage Family Foundation to purchase a repurposed shipping container turned vertical farm.
SCOTLAND: Heron Invests In Cultivating Lettuce In Containers
At Heron, this technology has so far been developed and tested in an inconspicuous shipping container between various metal frames in the farthest corner of the new building in Dornborn
Inside The Effort To Unionize Square Roots, Kimbal Musk’s Vertical Farming Company
A small team of urban farmers is trying to unionize in Brooklyn, hoping to increase their voice in the workplace. But if union drives at other Musk-led companies are any indication, they face an uphill battle
VIDEO - USA - KENTUCKY: Louisville Veteran Turns Shipping Container Into Hydroponic Farm
The hydroponic farm is completely operated out of a shipping container that sits off Spring Street in the Irish Hill neighborhood. The container is 40 feet long and 320 square feet. It can grow up to three acres vertically and hydroponically
Greenery of The Future
Island Grown Initiative has officially entered futuristic territory with its introduction of a new greenery to its expansive 40-acre farm in Vineyard Haven
USA: NEW YORK: Local Vertical Farming Startup Starting To Scale. It Begins On Buffalo’s East Side
Ellicottville Greens plans to make community-based partners, then become the operating side of their local indoor farming operations. “We’re the farm management company that will come in, design the farm, build it out and manage it entirely,” Bialkowski said
Farm On Wheels Brings Hands-On Food Education To Edmonton Classrooms
To most, the farm on wheels would look like a shipping container on the back of a truck. But to Debra Davidson, a professor at the University of Alberta and director of Prairie Urban Farms, it's so much more
VIDEO: Using A Freight Farms Container Farm For STEM Education
A versatile tool, the modular farms provide an opportunity for kinesthetic learning and hands-on experience with STEM Ed topics
Advanced Container Technologies, Inc. Modular Hydroponic Farms Allow Grocery Stores To Give Customers A Farm-to-Table Experience
With GrowPods, stores can sell ultra-clean strawberries and leafy greens that can be picked fresh right off the vine
Dubai Hotel Launches New Hydroponic Container Farm
Founded in July 2020, GreeenTech is the first in the Czech Republic to produce hydroponic containers, a technological solution to enable local cultivation of vegetables, microgreens and small fruits anywhere in the world
Meet The High-Tech Urban Farmer Growing Vegetables Inside Hong Kong’s Skyscrapers
Gordon Tam, co-founder and CEO of vertical farming company Farm66, wants to show that agriculture, combined with technology, has a promising future in cities, deserts and even in outer space