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

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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

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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

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’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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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