News About Farming in a Shipping Container
How to Start A Farm To School Program With A Freight Farm
Morgan Hill Unified School District in Morgan Hill, CA, grows 60% of their lettuce needs (to feed 9,000 students) in just one Freight Farm
USA - Providence, Rhode Island: United Natural Foods And Square Roots To Co-Locate Indoor Farms At Distribution Centers Across North America
Square Roots to grow food on-site at UNFI facilities, eliminating lengthy supply chains and giving back days of freshness to UNFI customers year-round
USA - Pennsylvania: Hydroponic Farm At Montco School Gets Visit From PA Officials
The hydroponic farm is located inside of a shipping container on school grounds. It's also referred to as a "freight farm."
ZipGrow And Its New ZipPod Part of Growing Agtech Sector In Cornwall
A new portable turnkey farming system made in Ontario could contribute to improving food security, solving supply chain disruptions and conserving water resources
The Future of Farming: Can We Feed The World Without Destroying It?
The broad range of benefits derived from vertical farming has been well-documented, so we shall instead turn first to the specifics of Fischer Farms, a UK-based vertical farming company
VIDEO - USA - CALIFORNIA: School Embraces Shipping Container Farming
"Our Freight Farm is innovation in action!” We envision a powerful and environmentally friendly path forward that accelerates our district's respect for the environment while at the same time providing delicious and nutritious meals for our students
Cayman Islands: Solar-Powered ‘Farm of The Future’ Could Feed All of Cayman
How do you pack a 150-acre farm that can grow enough fresh, healthy produce to feed the entire population of the Cayman Islands on to a single-acre development site?
AmplifiedAg Introduces Vertical Propagation As The Newest Addition To Its Comprehensive Indoor Agriculture Platform
Ready for commercialization, AmpVPS has the potential to propagate over 100,000 seedlings in each 320 ft2 unit, creating a new high-density option for all growers
USA: FLORIDA - St. Petersburg Urban Farm Brick Street Expands
Brick Street Farms is growing leafy greens inside upcycled shipping containers in a warehouse and parking lot at Tropicana Field — and they're about to get a whole lot more growing power
USA: Minnesota - Four Acres In A Box: Wykoff Couple Venture Into Vertical Hydroponic Farming
The Rahes plan on selling lettuce, microgreens, and herbs to individuals and restaurants around Southeast Minnesota and northeast Iowa
Square Roots & Gordon Food Service Open New Facility In Ohio
Fresh, local greens are grown by tech-enabled farmers are now sold throughout Ohio and Pennsylvania, all year round
In The Heights: Q&A With Kalera CEO Jim Leighton
For an industry still in relative infancy, it’s breathtaking to consider how far and how fast global vertical farming has grown in the last 10 years
PARIS, FRANCE: Urban Farm For Microgreens From A Freight Farms Shipping Container Farm
Shipping container farm being used to produce microgreens
Auburn University Department of Horticulture’s Freight Farming Program
The two Freight Farms at Auburn University are a part of the college’s horticulture program. They live in the Transformation Garden, an open-air classroom that is a beautiful spot on campus for all students to enjoy and learn
Containers For Hydroponic Cultivation Are Now Requested by Schools
Greatit's Demetra container is attracting the interest of many schools as an innovative teaching tool
Ditto Foods: Rock Ringer & Father of 4 Sprouts Seeds For Change And Community Revival
Ditto Foods is a hydroponic operation, which means everything is grown in a closed environment—no soil, fertilizer or even natural sunlight needed. Instead, plants are raised in an indoor atmosphere and fed the exact nutrient mix needed for optimum growth
USDA To Double CEA Research Center Footprint With New AmplifiedAg Integrated Vertical Farming Research Labs
“We’re extremely proud that the USDA has once again selected AmplifiedAg’s technology to advance and expand its category-defining CEA research,” said Don Taylor, CEO of AmplifiedAg
How To Start A Farm-to-School Program With A Freight Farm
We’re proud that so many schools use our hydroponic farming technology for their farm to school program
Nova Scotia: Know Where Your Food Is Coming From': N.S. Group Grows Produce In Shipping Container
It might not look high-tech on the outside, but inside the Akoma Hydroponic Garden’s shipping container is what some are calling the future face of agriculture
VIDEO: Can A Shipping Container System Make Pricey Shrimp RAS Redundant?
Currently looking to raise $15-20 million, its founder, Daniel Russek, explains why the company is finally coming out of stealth mode and how they can revolutionise indoor shrimp production