News About Farming in a Shipping Container
Nongshim's Container-Type Smart Farm Goes For Pilot Project In Oman
SEOUL -- Nongshim, a food, and beverage company in South Korea, will export a container-type vertical smart farm for a pilot project in Oman, which has launched a state smart farm initiative to decrease its reliance on food imports
Core Electric, FarmBox Foods Announce Partnership To Grow Trees For Reforestation
A groundbreaking reforestation program launched by CORE Electric Cooperative and FarmBox Foods is using innovation to achieve a new form of environmental stewardship
We’re In The Midst of Helping Square Roots Build Out A Growing Network of Hydroponic Farms Across The U.S
Square Roots v3, completed in 2022, is a vertical farming campus for the farming technology company Square Roots
Fresh From the Farm
In the facility’s south parking lot near the Nicholson Center, the hospital administration has set up its 40-foot-by-8-foot Freight Farm. Freight Farms is a Boston-based agriculture technology company that manufactures and sells container farms — hydroponic farming systems assembled inside intermodal freight containers
’What Has AppHarvest Done For Eastern Kentucky? ‘ They’ve Delivered The Jobs.
These are 40-foot, steel shipping containers that have been retrofitted with HVAC, LED and irrigation system to allow students to grow these leafy greens and you can do herbs,” said Amy Samples, the vice president of community outreach and the director of the AppHarvest Foundation, the company’s charitable giving and education arm
Square Roots Furthers U.S. Expansion With New Kentucky Facility
Since establishing their strategic partnership in 2019, Square Roots and Gordon Food Service have been building indoor farms together across the continent
CANADA: University of Toronto Mississauga - We Are Thrilled To Be Officially Launching Our UTM Farm!
Located in P9 outside of the Hazel McCallion Academic Learning Centre, our UTM Farm is a classic shipping container on the outside, but completely transformed on the inside
VIDEO: From Shipping Container To Green Machine; UA’s Biosphere 2 Finds New Ways To Grow Food
Right now, with just one “Freight Farm,” the B2 teams is growing 800 heads of lettuce a week. It does everything hydroponically and gives these lush, green walls of produce all the light, temperature control, and nutrients they need
UNITED KINGDOM - WEST LONDON - Greenhaus Brings Smart Farms Into The City At Chiswick Park
Chiswick Park has been chosen as the first location for Greenhaus Farms, a new company deploying state-of-the-art vertical farms inside shipping containers, to bring sustainable farming to West London
How To Start A Farm To School Program With A Freight Farm
Here at Freight Farms, our mission is to make it possible for anyone to grow food anywhere — and that includes you! The Greenery™ S simplifies many of the barriers to entry and complicated aspects of farming
VIDEO - USA - CHICAGO: South Suburban Hydroponic Farm Owner Seeks To Democratize The Food System And Change The Narrative In The Ford Heights Neighborhood
Drake has been giving back to his hometown in various ways over the past decade, from mentorship through sports and education programs to teaching youth about entrepreneurship
VIDEO: Diversifying The Dairy Farm - Verdures Dorey Farm, Quebec, Canada
Audrey and Dominic run a dairy and mixed grain farm in rural Quebec. In 2021, they took on a new adventure by adding a Growcer modular farm to grow healthy produce 365 days a year
The History of Container Shipping
Container transportation is now the most popular way of cargo movement and a critical pillar of the global economy, but back in the 1950s, it was just a thought
VIDEO: New York Power Authority Joins Harlem Grown and EPRI in Collaborative Demonstration To Educate Local Youth About Urban Farming, Sustainability And Nutrition
Project Research Study to Inform Climate Actions, Evaluate Energy and Environmental Impacts, and Measure Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction
CANADA: VIDEO: Grow In The Snow - Armstrong Cubic Farmer Can Grow Greens All Day - Every Day
Van Deursen’s GreenLion farms currently has 16 of the shipping containers, which produce herbs, lettuce and micro greens. The longest grow time is 36 days
ACTX Says It's Time For Farmers To Spice It Up
Controlled environment farms like GrowPods offer an ideal way for growers to expand into culinary herb production
USA: Farm-to-School Initiative Enters Phase One In Pittsburg, Kansas
Once Leafy Green Farms reaches a goal of ten schools locally, they will move on to implementing the program in all 105 counties in the Sunflower State. The project is typically funded through grant programs
Freight Farms Raises $17.5M Series B3 To Address Access And Sustainability In The Food System Through Container Farming
This funding will help the hydroponic container farming company expand its customer base and increase reach of its farms to more remote areas and urban centers
VIDEO: Firm Seeks Zoning Variance To Build Micro Farm Out of Shipping Containers Near Buffalo Broadway Market
"What's nice about a container is that because of the vertical nature of it, with five different tiers, we're able to grow a lot of produce within these units," said Bialkowski
Aliaxis Invests In Freight Farms, A World Leader In Vertical Farming Technology
This strategic partnership will be part of Water for Food business unit within Aliaxis Next, the newly created division of Aliaxis to select, incubate, nurture, and grow businesses from new domains to improve water management