News About Farming in a Shipping Container
VIDEO: Container-Grown Vertical Roots’ Holiday Packaging, Charitable Giving A Sign of The Times
Charleston, S.C.-based Vertical Roots has redesigned the packaging of its hydroponic, large-leaf Living Lettuce heads and salad mixes with festive snowflakes for the month of December only — signaling that a portion of proceeds from all Vertical Roots products sold in December will benefit Feeding America
There’s Never Been A Better Time To Start A Hydroponic Farm
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Huvster Vertical Farming Starts Operations In Europe
Huvster by Verde Compacto was founded in 2016 with a clear purpose and vision: to reconnect the world with fresh and locally grown food while helping countries reduce carbon emissions
Future of Agriculture In Eastern Kentucky - AppHarvest Opened Its 7th Container Farm At a Kentucky High School
Appharvest, the Morehead-based indoor farming company, has partnered with another high school in eastern Kentucky to teach the next generation of high-tech farmers
UNITED KINGDOM: Meet Lettus Grow - Vertical Farm Supplier And Newest Addition To The Agritecture Partner Network
LettUs Grow started with a simple question: “How can we reduce food waste?”
VIDEO: Square Roots To Supply Whole Foods In NY, MI
Square Roots is the technology leader in indoor farming. Its mission is to bring local, fresh, real food to people in cities around the world
USA: SOUTH CAROLINA - VIDEO - Vertical Roots Featured on PBS’ ‘START UP’ Season 9
“Not only is what they’re doing incredibly relevant to the agricultural issues happening around the country, but I think Vertical Roots is going to become increasingly important in the future,” he added. “And today.”
Is Agriculture Moving Indoors?
Vertical farms are expensive and energy-intensive today, but investors and entrepreneurs are bullish on their future
Edible Food Find: Town to Table
The hydroponic Freight Farms are currently growing basil and mixed lettuces, including Salanova, a hydroponic-specific green
USA: COLORADO - Natural Grocers' GardenBox Grows Lettuce Right At The Store
Retailer offers certified organic lettuce while maintaining its demanding standards with hydroponic container farm behind a Colorado store
Brick Street Farms Unveils Plans For Urban Hubs, Parking Lot-Sized Farms Opening In Urban Communities
Brick Street Farms is using its climate-controlled agriculture and hydroponic farming systems to turn repurposed shipping containers into urban farms that can fit in a space the size of a parking lot, with its first location coming to St. Pete’s Grand Central District in early 2022
SOUTH AMERICA: CHILE - Funded Project To Develop Low-Cost Container Farms
The University of Talca, located in the south-central macro-zone of Chile and a known developer of soilless crops in the country, has been awarded a technological innovation project-FIC, Maule 2021
Grow Crops In Containers. Korean Smart Farm Company, Design Farmers
Smart farm refers to a new type of farming where the user can save labor and energy while improving productivity and quality based on the accurate data accumulated about crop growth environment
USA: VIRGINIA - Vittone Farms Featured In Leader Magazine: Farm Credit of The Virginias Fall 2021 Issue
Located in Moneta, VA, just outside of Smith Mountain Lake, a popular vacation spot for Virginians, Vittone Farms grows leafy produce in a unique container farm
VIDEO: Mcheileh Studio's Flying Farms That "Combine Aerospace Technology With Aeroponic Farming" Named Redesign The World Runner-Up
The proposal, called Aeroponic 2100, envisions dirigibles that fly through towns, cities and residential spaces distributing food where it is needed
VIDEO: Container Farm Tour - Growcer
In this virtual tour, Growcer’s R&D team will walk you through the ins and outs of these tightly controlled indoor farms
Enfield Hydroponic Farm Can Grow Anything A Chef Wants, Including Wasabi Arugula
SVG runs out of a converted 320-square-foot shipping container turned into a hydroponic operation by Farm Box Foods, a company in Colorado
USA: MICHIGAN - Innovative Farm, Fashioned From Shipping Containers, Doubles In Size In Grand Rapids Area
Square Roots now has 20 shipping containers at GFS’s headquarters, up from 10 in 2019, where a team of farmers grow basil, parsley, cilantro, kale, leafy greens, microgreens and more year-round
USA: FLORIDA - BSF Hubs: Saving Water
Our THRIVE Containers already use less than 95% of water used by traditional soil farms of the same production acreage
Freight to Plate: Hydroponic Farm Produces Nutrient-Dense Food Year-Round
The development of the hydroponic farm by sisters Jacqueline Scala and Mary Kathryn Scala was partially triggered by the pandemic