News About Farming in a Shipping Container

UNITED KINGDOM: Vertical Farming Comes To Chiswick

Greenhaus Farms is a small start-up company which has a shipping container full of plants in the car park at Chiswick Business Park. Harrison Pritchard and his two co-founders Nick Stace and Georgie Harper-Wilde have been operating there since last September. This is their pilot scheme, and if all goes well they are hoping to expand across London and throughout the UK

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VIDEO - The Future of Food - 7 - Vertical Farming: Thinking Inside The Box

Inside their shipping container farm, in West Des Moines, Iowa, thousands of red and blue LED lights create a purple glow as they shine on a series of 7-foot-tall vertical panels draped with growing plant

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Square Roots Opening Its Fourth Farm

The facility, located in Shepherdsville, Ky., adds to Square Roots production facilities in Michigan, Wisconsin and Ohio, according to a news release

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Research From Bristol's LettUs Grow Finds Environmental Benefits of Renewably Powered Aeroponic Farms

Jack Farmer, study co-author and Chief Scientific Officer at LettUs Grow, said: “This is one of the first studies of its kind. It evaluates aeroponic vertical farming’s environmental credentials under real world scenarios

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Container Farming: Exploring A New Sustainable Agriculture Model

Container agriculture is a sustainable agriculture, and agricultural planting inside containers is very convenient as long as electricity and water are available

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Laredo Shipping Container Farm Places Second In National Contest

They feel it helps showcase their cause, as they prepare to make their shipping container farm fully operational in the next few weeks for the community

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'People Have Lost The Connection With Food': Indoor Farm Hopes to Bring Fresh, Sustainable Products to Wisconsin, Northern Illinois

Founded in 2016 by Kimbal Musk, Elon's brother, and Tobias Peggs, Square Roots mission is to bring sustainable, freshly-farmed products to urban areas. The indoor farms are set up inside shipping-containers and take just 3-4 months of construction before they can be up and running

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Modular Farming For Hyperlocal

I recently had the opportunity to Zoom with Freight Farms CEO Rick Vanzura, whose resume includes executive positions at Panera Bread, Wahlburgers, and Borders bookstores

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VIDEO: Minnesota: Urban Farm Grows Fresh Greens For Restaurants, Residents

Restaurants looking for locally-grown, fresh produce during the winter months must turn to a different type of farm, one in which the complete growing system is in a climate-controlled box

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USA: ARIZONA - VIDEO - Container Farm Pilot Shows Promising Signs

Biosphere 2 has recently started a pilot program with a hydroponic farm in a container unit called Freight Farms, and program leaders hope to use agrivoltaics solar panels to save energy

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FarmBox Foods Joins the International Phytobiomes Alliance

Colorado-based FarmBox Foods takes upcycled shipping containers and transforms them into controlled-climate container farms in which mushrooms, leafy greens, culinary herbs, micro greens, peppers, fodder, and other plants can be sustainably grown

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Freight Farms CEO: Vertical Farming Vexed by High Wnergy Costs But Renewables Offer Refuge

FoodIngredientsFirst sits down with Rick Vanzura, CEO of Freight Farms, to understand how energy is at the root of the sector’s problems and what can be done to overcome the problem

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