Watch how this software engineer turned enthusiast farmer from Pune city earns lakhs by doing Kashmir saffron farming in a shipping container

FarmBox Foods LLC is on a mission to revolutionize farming. The small company, based out of Sedalia, repurposes shipping containers to grow food and fodder using highly efficient hydroponics

By the end of this blog, you’ll better understand the different types of systems and their advantages and disadvantages for you as an operator

“I discovered freight farms when I saw a video about the Square Roots project in Brooklyn highlighting the technology and capabilities of growing food in a shipping container. I had no prior knowledge of this growing system before, but I saw a need in the community.”

“I came up with the idea of using shipping containers to develop controlled environments, where crops can be grown. I went to Mumbai, bought a shipping container for Rs 5 lakh, and had it shipped to Pune. The reason behind using a shipping container is that they are very good insulators,” he explains

Repurposing shipping containers is nothing new in London – we’ve got mini-malls and food courts in Boxpark and offices in Containerville – and now with Crate to Plate, farms can be added to that list

Any system, to be worth investing in, needs to do two things. Serve the needs of the plant, and be economically viable for the farmer

A container farm, or freight farm, is a climate-controlled hydroponic farm with a vertical farming system built inside a shipping container that produces a variety of leafy greens

Shipping container concepts have been popping up on college campuses over the past several years. Colorado State chose to house one of its micro-restaurants inside a shipping container, while Auburn University and Georgia State University have utilized the containers for hydroponic farms

From small orchards to high-tech vertical farming, producing food in urban areas could help address key social and environmental issues

While FarmBox Foods, a Colorado-based manufacturer of containerized farms, has made its name with a tech-driven Vertical Hydroponic Farm, it’s increasingly gaining attention for its start-to-finish Gourmet Mushroom Farm

Over the last few weeks, we’ve been exploring the options faced by prospective growers. Ultimately, comparing systems means crunching the numbers and understanding your market, your community, and the “why” behind your project

When Brad McNamara and John Friedman wanted to grow Freight Farms using IoT tech, they brought on CEO Rick Vanzura

University of Wyoming graduate Nate Storey has a vision to feed the world into the 21st century, and has the motivation and means to do it

A 340-square-foot shipping container produces a yield equivalent to 2 to 4 acres of farmland, or more than 6,000 pounds of leafy greens per year

5-Star resorts and leading hotels are now using smaller modular pods to provide guests with gourmet cuisine experiences

The campaign will feature about 15 billboards in its target markets as well as video advertising on the Hulu streaming service and a social media campaign on its platforms

The three Freight Farms allow Primitive Greens to defy the very things that make fresh food so scarce on the island: a lack of arable land, extreme weather which makes farming near-impossible, and those long shipping lines

Essentially a sustainable ‘farm-in-a-box’, a hydroponic container farm can produce many different crop types using 90% less water and 95% less land*. Grow leafy vegetables, herbs, flowers, fruiting plants, gourmet mushrooms, houseplants, and more!

“Interest was generated during the pandemic, especially in the urban areas, (because) urban areas don’t have access to food,” Roberto F. Rañola, Jr., an agriculture economics specialist and chairman of the Philippine Association of Agriculturists, said