News About Farming in a Shipping Container

La Sierra University Will Launch 10 New Academic Programs

One container arrived in 2021 for use by the university’s Enactus team to grow leafy greens and herbs utilizing hydroponics-based agriculture. Last school year, the team began using the container to provide education in sustainable agriculture and business practices for local at-risk youth

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Addressing Food Insecurity In Arid Regions With An Open-Source Evaporative Cooling Chamber Design

And, as the chamber is designed to be built in a used shipping container — ubiquitous the world over — the project is a great example of up-cycling

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Hamilton Horne’s Top 10 Tips For How To Sell Produce To Restaurants

Hamilton Horne is the highly successful entrepreneur behind King Tide Farms, a Freight Farming business in Charleston, SC. He sells produce to the city’s high-end restaurants, whose chefs love the microgreens, flavorful leafy greens, and herbs that he grows

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Hydroponics: The Soilless Future of Urban Farming

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, almost 34 million US citizens face severe food insecurity. Adding fuel to the fire, the USA lost 4 million acres of fertile agricultural land to urbanization in 2020 alone

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Square Roots Pauses Commercial Production, Pivots To ‘Farming As A Service’ Model

A company spokesperson recently confirmed with The Packer that the controlled environment agriculture company is pausing commercial production at several of its farms and moving to a “farming as a service” business model. What this major shift means for the company is still unclear

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VIDEO: Urban Bounty Farms Shipping Container Growing Helping Vets

One metro farming business is using a small space to make a big difference for local military veterans. Urban Bounty Farms uses creative ways to grow food inside. FOX4 first told you about their 6,000-square-foot East Bottoms location in April

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5 Reasons Why Cities Should Create An Office of Urban Agriculture

The mission of an urban agriculture office reaches across an array of city priorities, from housing and health to public park use and zoning

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Grow It York: The Vertical Farm Under Our Noses

Whilst this container was primarily being used to grow herbs and leafy greens, it could be used to grow potatoes with a deeper tray, or heads of lettuce with a higher space to grow. Although, those would both be less efficient in terms of the usage of space as they would not be able to have as many trays in the container

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Square Roots Is Halting Production At Many Of Its Farms - The Company Was Co-Founded By Kimbal Musk

Square Roots told staff it was closing most of its locations and cutting jobs, two former staff said. One farm in Grand Rapids will remain open to service business partners, a source told Insider. Square Roots told local news it plans to reconfigure some locations and may eventually re-open them

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Join Us For Our First-Ever Growcer AMA (Ask-Me-Anything)

In this unique format, we’ll be assembling a panel from across our Product, Research, and Installation teams to answer your questions, live! Anything from Growcer’s product offerings, to farm details, to yields and farm management, and more. We’re here to get you answers to your vertical farming questions

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Urban Farming Startup Square Roots Abruptly Shutters Shepherdsville, Ky. Facility

Co-founded by Kimbal Musk, the brother of Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Square Roots grabbed headlines for its model of refurbishing shipping containers into vertical farms that use artificial light and a controlled environment to grow greens like basil, cilantro, and parsley

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US: Planted Detroit Closes Doors And Square Roots' Kenosha Farm Pauses Commercial Production

The release stated, "In the past month, Planted Detroit, like much of the CEA industry, faced investment turbulence and funding constraints. Despite the company's efforts to drive sales, cut costs, and secure investments, these challenges could not be overcome."

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USA: NEW YORK - Cubic Acres Secures Funding To Expand "Seed To Salad" Initiative To Grow 3 Million Heads of Lettuce For New York

The partnership will begin with the construction of a fully automated state-of-the-art vertical farming facility - the first of its kind for Long Island - slated to yield one million heads of lettuce annually

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Thirsty Roots Farm

The Kerr family stands outside the Thirsty Roots Farm shipping container. Pictured left to right, front to back: Maggie Kerr, Nancy Kerr, Jarod Kerr, and Jim Kerr

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7 Reasons Why Shipping Containers Can Be The Best Way To Grow Hemp or Cannabis

Advanced Container Technologies, Inc. (Ticker: ACTX), announced its GrowPods – uniquely designed controlled environment farms built into specially outfitted shipping containers, can help growers achieve better outcomes with more robust harvests

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Vertical Farming Points To Future Agriculture, Set To Inject Impetus To China’s Food Security Drive

Inside several containers located in a vertical farming research center in Shanghai, crops are growing rapidly. Without natural sunlight and soil, they are grown in an indoor space - a micro greenhouse measuring no more than 20 square meters

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Q & A With Farm AnyWhere

FarmAnywhere is a manufacturer and innovator in the field of agricultural equipment. Primarily, we build container farms. However, recently we’ve been developing and releasing our line of agricultural equipment for the traditional CEA (Controlled Environment Agriculture) market

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