News About Farming in a Shipping Container

VIDEO: 'It’s A Long-Term Process' | How Growing Food Indoors May Fix Arlington's Empty Office Space Issue

Amazon is setting up shop in Arlington, but the county still has serious economic challenges post-pandemic, including record-high empty office space. It’s costing Arlington millions every year, and now there’s an outside-the-box idea to turn things around

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Freight Farms Introduces Its New Line Of Hydroponic Nutrients

The product line consists of three components: Farmhand form, grow, and boost, each designed to provide essential macro and micronutrients to support healthy plant growth in hydroponic systems

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Why 2023 Is The Year To Start A Hydroponic Farming Business

Good news! They indicate that 2023 is a great year to start hydroponic farming. From food safety to local purchasing and supply chain to healthy eating and environmental sustainability, recent studies and events suggest that now is the time to start a hydroponic farm

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USA: VIRGINIA - Fox Urban Farms Plants The Seeds For Hydroponic Farming In Winchester

Fox Urban Farm Owners Ann and John Fox show a flat of the fresh specialty lettuce they are growing in Winchester’s first urban hydroponic farm on South Loudon Street

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USA: ALABAMA - Gulf Shores High School's Small Town, Big Garden Sets Fundraiser

“When feasible, we hope to add a shipping container farm to our program, like the containers in the Transformation Garden at Auburn University-- https://youtu.be/E27CVXS2QzM —so that we will be able to fully sustain our lunchrooms with student-grown lettuce, greens and herbs.”

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How A Container Farm Will Benefit Your School Farming Program

School gardens teach students how to grow fresh, nutritious produce and help them develop healthy eating habits. Some school farming programs are forgoing traditional gardens for enclosed hydroponic shipping container farms (HSCFs)

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Podcast: Episode 84 - Tobias Peggs / Square Roots - Exploring The Maturity of Indoor Farming And The Challenges of Achieving Carbon Neutrality

Tobias shares the company's innovative approach to creating a more sustainable and resilient business, from their technology platform to their sustainability initiatives

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VIDEO: IoT-Connected Farms – Rick Vanzura, Freight Farms

Rick Vanzura, CEO of Freight Farms, joins sustainability and climate contributor Bonnie Schneider to discuss the world’s largest network of IoT-connected farms spanning 49 U.S. states and 33 countries.

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Horizontal Vs. Vertical Stacking In Hydroponic Farms

There’s many types of hydroponic farming systems like nutrient film technique (NFT), deep water culture (DWC) and ebb and flow. All these systems deliver nutrient-rich water to the plants in different ways and fit under the umbrella of hydroponic farming

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AmplifiedAg: Scalable Controlled Environment Agriculture

AmplifiedAg is a company specializing in Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA), offering a comprehensive technology platform and utilizing indoor farming practices

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Shipping Containers: A Sustainable Solution For Indoor Farming?

“Using shipping containers as the primary structure for indoor farms has numerous benefits compared to traditional implementations such as greenhouses and indoor farms”

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ACTX Announces New Line of 'GrowPod' Controlled Environment Farms

Advanced Container Technologies, Inc, announced a new line of GrowPod Controlled Environment Farms to accommodate a wide range of customers and specialty plant cultivations. ACTX is the exclusive distributor of these systems, which were all designed and built by GP Solutions

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Ai-Aided Shipping Containers May Help Communities Produce Crops Year-Round

Amidst the increasing threat of extreme weather events, some American plant growers have turned to using used shipping containers to make compact and versatile indoor farms to grow crops 365 days a year

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VIDEO: Farming of The Future - From "Green Genetic Engineering" To Vertical Farms

Agriculture, as we know it today, is highly efficient. It feeds more people than at any time in history. But there is a catch: Food may fill our supermarkets, but it is pushing our planet to its limits

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All About Yields

The problem is everyone describes their yields differently. Growing slots. Heads. Pounds per square meter. Units. This makes it difficult to compare equipment suppliers and discern what your reality will be once you start growing

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How Freight Farms Is Innovating Urban Farming

Freight Farming is gaining popularity by the day. The innovative idea has taken hold in numerous countries across the globe, including areas where agriculture seemed impossible

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Why Container Farms?

An analysis of the core business and planetary advantages of container farming as CEA infrastructure--from reduced carbon emissions in construction to capital and deployment efficiencies

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