News About Farming in a Shipping Container

ZipGrow To Showcase Latest Innovation The Plowing Match

The ZipPod launched in June 2022, and the Plowing Match will be the first opportunity for the public to tour this revolutionary turnkey container farming system and see firsthand how crops are grown in ZipGrow hydroponic Towers

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AmplifiedAg Releases Sustainability Impact Update 

In the spirit of transparency, accountability, and industry collaboration, I am happy to share this AmplifiedAg Sustainability Impact Update that highlights our numerous initiatives and advancements

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VIDEO: Squeezing Acres of Farmland Into A 40-Foot Shipping Container - Tech-Based Farming At Square Roots

Alex Pate is the farm manager of Square Roots Brooklyn. Alex talks about Square Roots and their mission to grow food in the city with technology-based agriculture, using container units fitted out to maximize limited amounts of space

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Freight Farms Partners With Biosphere 2 To Pioneer The Future of Indoor Agriculture

Biosphere 2 is turning to Freight Farms to further novel research on creating a circular economy of food production, its benefits and the role of vertical farming

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How Data Can Make Us Better Farmers

With Farm from a Box's data monitoring system, you can understand how your farm uses resources like water, fertilizer, and energy - not only helping you boost your yields, but reduce waste, lower your footprint, and protect nearby ecosystems

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Indoor Farming Leader Square Roots Expands Distribution With Meijer In The Midwest

Square Roots, the technology leader in indoor farming, announced today that it now sells its fresh, long-lasting produce in Meijer’s branded stores in four Midwestern states

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USA: Missouri - How A Hydroponic Farming Company Is Improving Access To Fresh Produce In St. Louis

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FH365 takes advantage of new technology that allows the conversion of shipping containers into fully functional high-tech hydroponic gardens using proprietary software that allows fresh vegetables to be grown almost anywhere at a modest investment

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How Can Greenhouses, Vertical Farms & Container Farms Work Together?

Greenhouses, vertical farms and container farms are all different forms of indoor farming, also known as Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA). As our climate grows increasingly hostile, and we wake up to the environmental cost of exporting produce across the globe, nations are turning to indoor farming in an effort to strengthen food networks and reduce their reliance on international exports

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New Things Ahead For Brick Street Farms, Naked Farmer

Brick Street Farms converts shipping containers into hydroponic farms that grow leafy greens and herbs in a technology-based, climate-controlled environment. The container units house rows of various crops that are harvested year-round

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Urban Farming & Power Research

Watch to see local and nationwide stakeholders — including Shreveport's mayor and EPRI's Principal Technical Leader — and Shreveport Green farmers announce this exciting project

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Home, Sweet Shipping Container

Now, they're helping other people build container homes. Correspondent Luke Burbank talks with homeowners who refuse to be boxed into traditional notions of home construction

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Indoor, Hydroponic Farms Sprouting Across Alabama

The Vintage Hospitality Group, which operates Vintage Year and other popular Montgomery eateries, grows its greens hydroponically out of two customized shipping containers stacked on each other in back of its namesake restaurant. It calls the operation MGM Greens

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Freight Farms Named 2022 “IoT Monitoring Solution of The Year” By AgTech Breakthrough

Data helps us to understand the relationships between the physiology of plants and their response to environmental variables at a level that has not been possible before - Jon Friedman, Co-founder and COO, Freight Farms

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USA: FLORIDA - Brick Street Farms Celebrates A Homecoming With Its New Market

Brick Street Farm owners have been slowly preparing for something of a homecoming. What started with a few converted shipping containers in a lot grew to a fleet of vertical farms in an expanded space in the Warehouse Arts District

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UNITED KINGDOM: Sustainable Bristol Student Start-Up Branches Into Prison Partnership To Aid Rehabilitation

They recently delivered an aeroponic container farm, called DROP & GROW, to HM Prison Hewell in Worcestershire where Prisoners will be introduced to indoor farming practices to gain experience in a fast growing industry and train in horticulture, with the aim of helping them secure full-time employment upon release

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CHINA: Pinduoduo Launches Vertical Farming Challenge For 3rd Smart Agriculture Competition

Now in its third edition, participants in the annual precision farming competition will be putting their skills in computing algorithms and agronomy to work cultivating lettuce inside shipping containers in a vertical farming challenge

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