News About Farming in a Shipping Container

EGYPT: How Tulima Is Growing Urban Farms In Upcycled Shipping Containers

Hoping to use their green thumbs to revolutionize vegetable farming in Egypt, Tulima Farms uses state-of-the-art technology and ancient Egyptian farming techniques to help modernize climate-positive farming

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VIDEO: It’s Not Too Late: The Future of Farming?

ABC News’ Ginger Zee reports on what could be an important part of the future of farming and how possible solutions for food scarcity may lie inside shipping containers

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New Vertical VIDEO: Aquaculture Technology Offers Sustainable, Profitable, Globally Scalable Protein Source

Housed in cargo containers, Atarraya’s ‘plug-and-play,’ AI-powered Shrimpbox delivers up to 10x the ROI of traditional poultry or swine farming, creating new opportunities for farmers — even in landlocked, highly populated areas

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Freight Farms Open House In Raleigh

Tour the Vertical Farms in Downtown Raleigh. During the open house, you’ll get to experience the future of farming and taste incredible locally-grown produce!

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VIDEO: Is Indoor Farming On a Path To Profitability?

Often criticized for their 'unsustainable finances', indoor farming companies are today, making efforts to cut their operational expenses, increase their revenues and thus, increase their profitability. But are they on the right track?

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VIDEO: Square Roots Indoor Farm Celebrates Largest Growing Operation In Kenosha With Ribbon Cutting, Tastings And Tours

The 10,000-square foot indoor farm, which is located on the Gordon Foods Service campus at 10915 38th St., has the capability of producing more than 2.4 million packages of herbs and salad greens annually, according to company officials

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Biosphere 2 Delivers First Lettuce Crop To Campus Pantry, Food Bank

The first crop of lettuce grown in a container farm at Biosphere 2 was delivered Monday to the University of Arizona Campus Pantry and the Impact of Southern Arizona community food bank. The crop included about 800 heads of red and green butter lettuce

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USA: NEW YORK - Farm Operator In Ellicottville Seeks Tax Breaks Help To Grow Fresh Greens

Ellicottville Greens, which was founded in 2019 by CEO Gabriel Bialkowski, wants to provide affordable and high-quality produce to consumers in economically distressed areas, where there are concerns about access to fresh foods

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AUSTRIA: Vertical Farming: Billa Is Now Growing Lettuce In The Parking Lot In Vienna

According to Billa, around 2,000 to 3,000 "units" can be produced per month in a vertical farming container - currently parsley, basil, coriander, oak leaf lettuce and lollo lettuce, which are sold (from mid/end of August) with pressed earth cubes

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Growing Farms One Converted Shipping Container At A Time

An 8-by-40-foot Freight Farms container is handled by a crane. The shipping containers are converted into self-contained, hydroponic farms that use LED lights

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VIDEO: Indy-Based Urban Farmer Goes High Tech

The east side of Indianapolis doesn’t exactly have a lot of land for developing acres of produce. DeMario Vitalis had to get creative farming three and a half acres inside shipping containers

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