News About Farming in Shipping Containers & Limited Indoor Spaces

Nature's Miracle Announces Initial Shipments of The "MiracleTainer" Series Container Farm

Nature's Miracle Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: NMHI) ("Nature's Miracle"), a leader in vertical farming technology and infrastructure, today announced the successful manufacturing and shipment of its first two customized container farms in its proprietary "MiracleTainer" series to Growterra, LLC, an Ohio-based vertical farming company.

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Growcer Raises $3M In Series A To Accelerate Growth

Growcer is set to leverage this significant capital injection to accelerate its growth trajectory, expand its market reach into more regions such as the northeast U.S., and enhance its product offerings beyond leafy greens and modular structures.

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USA - IOWA: Tapestry Farms Hosting Spring Fling Benefit In Bettendorf

Tapestry Farms utilizes a shipping container to implement hydroponic (or vertical) farming. It uses small spaces to maximize produce production while using minimal water or energy resources. All in all, it's a more sustainable way to grow fresh produce year-round. 

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Every Day Is Earth Day At Biosphere 2

In another effort to innovate crop production in a changing world, Biosphere 2 has teamed up with a private vertical farm technology company, Freight Farms, to develop sustainable and resilient food systems. Biosphere 2 runs one hydroponic farm, a 40-foot long, 8-foot-wide shipping container that has been retrofitted to grow leafy greens vertically.

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VIDEO: Container Farming With King Tide Farms: Charleston's Latest Source of Sustainable Local Produce

In Freight Farms' latest episode of Grow Food Here, they follow Hamilton Horne, who used his experience in sales to start his own container farming business selling to local restaurants in Charleston, South Carolina.

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USA - RHODE ISLAND: Cumberland High School Grows Its Own Greens For School Lunches District-Wide

Students in Cumberland Schools need not ask questions when it comes to some of their food served in their cafeteria, because the leafy greens they eat are grown right behind Cumberland High School. A large, green shipping container that contains a garden full of greens inside, sits behind the cafeteria.Installed in 2017 by 'Freight Farm,' a lot of work went into getting it up and running.

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VIDEO: From Container To Crop: A Vertical Farming Journey

With 20 containers housing between 3,000 to 4,000 plant sites each, our farm stands as a testament to the potential of sustainable agriculture in urban landscapes.

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Farm Provides Fresh Produce To Community

A five hundred square foot container farm in Altgeld Gardens is being used to teach young people entrepreneurship and bring fresh produce to the community. By The Hand Club for Kids, along with Freight to Plate and the Kenilworth Union Church, have launched Bowen Harvest in Altgeld Gardens. In March, the farm harvested its first crop.

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Minnesota Freight Farm Route 1 Giving Farmers of Color Space To Grow

Last month, Carpenter received a shipping container from Boston. A company there called Freight Farm saves them from junkyards and then adds technology, electricity and water so crops can grow inside.

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Winemaker Turned Farmer Goes Green, Sustainable – And Vertical

Noël Schaff of Cardona Farms started a vertical farm in rural Petaluma where she grows an edible garden inside a 40-foot-long freight container but yields the equivalent of 2.5 acres.

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From Livestock To Lion’s Mane, The Latest From The Transfarmation Project

In an old tobacco barn in North Carolina, Craig Watts completed three trial runs growing shiitakes before he felt ready to scale up. Then, he pulled a shipping container into one of the four giant barns that have been sitting empty on his farm and connected plumbing and electrical systems that once provided water and lighting for thousands of chickens destined to become Perdue products.

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Inside The Farm Growing In An AdventHealth Parking Lot

Inside a 320-square-foot repurposed shipping container is a hydroponic operation capable of matching a 3-acre farm's produce yield, a first of its kind initiative on a hospital campus.

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CANADA: Northeastern Businesses Celebrated For Sustainability

Mnogin Greenhouse, a container farm west of North Bay producing fresh herbs, greens and lettuces on the Nipissing First Nation, has won the Erica Lagios Memorial Award for Food Sovereignty from reThink Green.

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Benefits of Stackable Hydroponic Containers For Urban Farmers

In this article, we’ll examine how stackable container farms can provide space-efficient commercial-level hydroponic production anywhere with a stable power and water hookup.

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Vertical Farming on Bristol's Brownfield Sites

Brownfield sites represent a lot of underutilised land in cities, while container farms – shipping containers kitted out with hydroponics or aeroponics – can be quickly deployed to grow a lot of fresh produce in a small area.

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Thy Neighbor's Farm: How A Marine Vet Is Combating Food Insecurity In His Community

With the grant, they are set to embark on an exciting new chapter in their farming journey by incorporating a pre-owned shipping container farm from SecondHand Farms into their operations.

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Stonington Mushroom Farmer Tackles Energy Costs With Solar Power

Farmer Chris Pacheco prides himself on growing food and feeding people, but at his farm there are no green fields or hoop houses cultivated with rows of vegetables. Instead, his growhouses are climate-controlled, commercial shipping containers where he produces about 1,000 pounds of mushrooms per week that are sold across the state at farmers markets and restaurants.

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Produce Now Launches Innovative Mushroom Farming Initiative With GrowPods

The concept of farming in a specially designed indoor farm inside a well-designed and equipped shipping container has gained significant traction among agricultural entrepreneurs or "farmtrepreneurs" across the United States.

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