News About Farming in a Shipping Container
VIDEO: Meet A Freight Farmer: King Tide Farms
King Tide Farms is a smart hydroponics farm inside a shipping container located in Charleston, South Carolina
The Sustainable Farming Innovator Delivering To London Homes And Restaurants
Sainsbury’s solution is ingenious. In shipping container-like spaces around London, he is growing a variety of lettuces, leafy greens and herbs using hydroponics, or a method of growing plants without soil, instead using mineral nutrient solutions in water
FFA Container Farm At Johnson Central Receives $10K Donation
Johnson Central High School’s FFA class will be opening a container farm thanks in part to a $10,000 donation from ARH to the AppHarvest foundation. The donation was announced in a ceremony at JCHS on Sept. 2
LettUs Grow Welcomes Established Horticultural Leader, Nick Green, As The New Head of Commercial
LettUs Grow welcomes established horticultural leader, Nick Green, as the new Head of Commercial
VIDEO: Crop In The Ocean: Start Up Harvests Vegetables On Floating Farm
A start-up presented its newest prototype of a floating greenhouse, where vegetables can be grown on a plantation without soil, as footage filmed in Almere on Wednesday shows.
USA: FLORIDA - St. Petersburg - Phase 2 Is Underway!
The second-story portion of our farms is nearly complete! We've installed 8 of the 12 new farms which will be stacked on top of our existing ones. Once finalized, we will have 20 active farms, meaning more greens and more room for growth here at Brick Street
Mideast In Pictures: Pick Up Your Vegetable At Israeli Urban "Vertical Farms"
Many portable urban "vertical farms" installed by Israeli agriculture tech company Vertical Field appeared next to supermarkets, restaurants, and shopping malls around the country
Modular Farm At Kelowna School Feeding The Community
Karla Lockwood, the teacher at École KLO Middle School, tells Castanet they started a modular farm back in 2020 in a retrofitted 40-foot shipping container
VIDEO: Mokena-Based Ditto Farms Provides Chicagoland With Organic Vertical Farmed Produce
You've heard of farming, but what about hydroponic farming? A Mokena-based farm is tackling this new way to farm produce in a shipping container farm
Grow It York lands Best Community Initiative Award
The farm called Grow It York, was created by the FixOurFood team at the University of York in 2021 when Professor Katherine Denby teamed up with LettUs Grow, an indoor farming technology provider from Bristol and Spark
VIDEO: Golden Eagles Eager To Grow: AppHarvest Plants 10th Container Farm In Johnson County
PAINTSVILLE, Ky. (WYMT) - Students at Johnson Central High School are ready to grow, getting their hands on the future of agriculture while sprouting new ideas about the future of Appalachia
VIDEO: Fresh Greens In The Dry Arizona Desert
“We saw the Farm Wall on the internet, and the next thing you know, we owned it! Now we have a fully functioning farm with no dirt,” says Tim
VIDEO: Doug Heldoorn, CEO of ACTX, And Shannon Illingworth, Inventor of GrowPods, Describe Future of Farming
"One GrowPod will grow about an acre of food with a third of the water compared to traditional farming," he stated. "With an automated and controlled environment, GrowPods can reduce or even eliminate most chemicals, pesticides, contaminants, and disease
USA: South Carolina - Innovative Hydroponic Research Lab Takes Root At GSSM
The GSSM Hydroponic Research Lab has the capacity to grow nearly 8,000 plants at once
IBN (InvestorBrandNetwork) Announces Gamechangers LIVE Interview With Advanced Container Technologies Inc. CEO Doug Heldoorn And Shannon Illingworth
During the interview, Heldoorn and Illingworth discussed the origins of Advanced Container Technologies and the ways the company is working to revolutionize farming practices
How Did Big Tex Urban Farms Use Hydroponics To Achieve Its Million Servings Mission?
In addition to greenhouse production, Big Tex Urban Farms has installed a 40-foot shipping container nicknamed GroZilla that has been used to produce a variety of crops, including leafy greens
VIDEO: Indoor Farm In Springfield Completes First Harvest
A new indoor farm in Springfield that will have the ability to grow 2.4 million packages of herbs and leafy greens every year completed its first harvest this month, with many more to follow
FarmBox Foods Launches Indoor Farm That Grows Livestock Feed
By growing fodder on-site year-round, farmers and ranchers can avoid supply chain disruptions, sourcing issues and spikes in hay prices
Hydroponics Help Urban Schools Grow Food Year-Round
In New York, Maryland, California, and beyond, hydroponic farms are being used as teaching tools while also addressing food access challenges
How Kenya’s Neruva Technologies’ Ecocapsules Are Bringing Food Production To Urban Markets
‘Ecocapsules’ are modified 40-foot shipping containers that allow for the simultaneous breeding of fish and cultivation of crops such as lettuce and basil