A behind-the-scenes look at how we construct our container farms. We give a tour of our manufacturing center and see how an empty shipping contianer becomes a fully working farm. Whether you're into sustainable agriculture or just curious, this video is for you.

Searching for new ways to feed a growing world, farms inside cargo containers have become a shining example of being sustainable, efficient, and productive. These small, movable farms are changing the game of how we grow food today. They use indoor farming and vertical farming methods to overcome the challenges of old-school farming.

After two-and-a-half years in business patience and persistence are paying off for Fresh Simple Greens. Orders continue to increase — from customers who buy direct and rave about the crisp, fresh taste of their lettuce, and more recently from grocery stores, which buy their herbs.

The Urban Farming Depot is conceptualized as a radical apparatus for food production and an urban monument. Through provocatively choreographing the food system and public activities between existing skyscrapers in cities, the project attempts to address urban food insecurity in metropolises around the world, using London as a testing site.

Agriculture and Marine Resources Minister Jomo Campbell highlighted the advantages of container farming during yesterday’s handover ceremony, noting the country’s challenges with climate, land availability, and soil quality.

Greenbox Farms' journey began back in 2016 with a vision to revolutionize at-home agriculture. We started by developing hydroponic plant-growing devices that could be controlled via a mobile app, specifically designed for home users. This initial foray into the world of hydroponics was driven by a passion to make sustainable farming accessible and User-friendly.

Join us for a webinar featuring David Payne, Owner of Beats per Minute, a veteran-owned vertical farming company from Kansas City, Missouri. Specializing in high-quality basil, Beats Per Minute supplies over 50 grocery stores and is in high demand.

Working in glasshouses and solar-powered shipping containers, they develop 'recipes' to produce food crops far faster than would be possible outdoors. n the UK, the university's results are attracting interest from the commercial food sector, which wants to install similar shipping containers in distribution centres.

This story is one in a series created in collaboration with the AASA Learning 2025 Alliance to celebrate the work of groundbreaking school districts in the Pittsburgh region. Kidsburgh will share these stories throughout 2024.

The client's goal is to produce microalgae to enhance the sustainability of its business. To further improve its production, acustomized controlled indoor farm, which can later be scaled, is essential. After a detailed technical analysis, UCS presented a design that met all the requirements.

Seven Stars Resort & Spa, a premier luxury destination in Turks and Caicos, transformed their approach to sourcing fresh produce by implementing an on-site Freight Farm. Within a short period of time, they successfully halved their reliance on leafy greens imports, achieving significant financial savings while addressing environmental concerns.

The Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York has tackled food insecurity with the addition of an on-site Freight Farm, providing fresh, culturally relevant produce to communities in need while reducing reliance on inconsistent donations.

Besides being on top of growing plants themselves, Farm Estate is also adopting franchising models across Ghana. "Our scalable container farms offer a modular, climate-controlled solution for year-round local food production." The franchise model comes in two different sizes; a single container farm, and a double one which has the in-house made Farm Management Software and crop recipes integrated.

Explore the technology behind the Freight Farms' container farm that allows farmers to grow food anywhere in the world! Following an overview of the Greenery, Vanessa Igoe, our Customer Success Specialist, will address pre-delivery farm site preparation, zoning requirements, and more.

Join us for the Freight Farms Pop Up Event in Denver, CO on Saturday Jun 15, 2024 at 1532 S Acoma St, Denver, CO 80223. Come and experience the latest innovation in farming technology with Freight Farms, a company that specializes in creating sustainable and efficient farming solutions.

Starting a homegrown garden or launching a small-scale urban farm can be incredibly rewarding. However, the initial investment in equipment can be a significant hurdle. This is where the world of secondhand growing equipment and container farms comes in, offering a wealth of benefits that make them a fantastic choice for the budget and environmentally-conscious grower.

Farming in the city is happening at Chicago's Altgeld Gardens on the city's Far South Side.Young people are planting and growing the vegetables to bring produce to a food desert. Bowen Harvest has a big shipping container on South Ellis Avenue. There's a farm inside, where impressive amounts of produce are being grown.

Researchers from the University of Essex will try to grow onions outside traditional soil-based methods – inside a bright pink shipping container. A new partnership between the university and onion supplier Stourgarden will trial the technique to explore making the onion production process more environmentally friendly.

Rahe of Sunshine Farms have two shipping containers on site and most of their produce is grown vertically, but it all starts with the nursery. “Every one of these containers has 288 pods in them,” Rahe said. “We put them in the nursery for one week with the humidity domes on them,” he said.

Based in Boston, Freight Farms supplies farmers in 41 countries worldwide with a freight container so they can grow food inside it instead of on large swaths of land. "These shipping containers … they end up either in the ocean or in some junk yard, and so what we're able to do with Freight Farms is use these containers," Carpenter explained.