News About Farming in Shipping Containers & Limited Indoor Spaces

PODCAST: From Shipping Container To Kitchen With B3 Roots

In this episode of the Direct Farm Podcast, we get an education from Blake Bennett of B3 Roots about "container farms", hydroponic systems, and creating sustainable agricultural practices with technology

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VIDEO: How Can The Global Agrifood System Build Resilience Amid Climate Change? Look To Ukraine

“Resilience” is a word that comes up a lot when we talk about the war in Ukraine, with news outlets around the world zeroing in on the courage of Ukrainians and their willingness to stand together in the face of Russia’s ongoing attacks and the atrocities of war

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USA - Pennsylvania - VIDEO - Montco School District Has First Student-Run Hydroponic Farm In State

The vertical hydroponic farm itself is located inside of a custom-building shipping container, whose state-of-the-art design includes technology that allows electricity and fresh water to be inserted into the container's frame

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USA: PITTSBURG, Kansas - PHS Students Recycle To Give Back

Today was the first harvest of produce from the school’s new shipping container farm. Thanks to a partnership with Leafy Green Farms, this is allowing the students of PHS to get hands-on training for one of the latest advancements in agriculture, like the students in Aubry Ross’ botany class

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USA; DENVER, COLORADO - DougCo’s Mountain Vista HS Pioneers Freight To Farm Program

(Castle Rock, CO) Five years ago, Mountain Vista High School teacher David Larson applied for and won a grant from Mind Spark Learning and the Mortgage Family Foundation to purchase a repurposed shipping container turned vertical farm.

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Farm On Wheels Brings Hands-On Food Education To Edmonton Classrooms

To most, the farm on wheels would look like a shipping container on the back of a truck. But to Debra Davidson, a professor at the University of Alberta and director of Prairie Urban Farms, it's so much more

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US: Pennsylvania - Methacton High School’s Hydroponic Farm Has Growing Impact On Students, Community

Students at Methacton High School are growing vegetables in an unlikely place – a shipping crate. It’s called a Hydroponic Farm. Inside the shipping crate, plants grow in vertical rows, without soil, using a mineral rich water system

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VIDEO: New Additions to Customer Success at Freight Farms - Spring 2022

This video outlines the major projects our Crop Research, Training, and Support teams have been working on to benefit both new and veteran growers, as well as what we have in store for later in the year

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How Plants Can Help People Grow

Posting as Garden Marcus on TikTok, Mr. Bridgewater, 33, has shown his 653,000 followers how planting a sweet potato vine in a new spot can help it flourish, a reminder that many living things can benefit from a change of scenery

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CSUN To Shorten Distance Between Farm to Table With Freight Farming

California State University, Northridge has launched a new initiative to shorten the distance from farm to table by growing its own produce using a new form of agriculture

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Building Food Sovereignty On Pine Ridge Reservation

Rebel Earth is an experimental farm: a place where new ideas and technologies can be tested and adapted to fit the Lakota culture and the Northern Great Plains ecosystem

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Social Emotional Learning In The Container Farm

Hydroponic container farms are great for growing vegetables. If you’re familiar with Freight Farms, that’s probably not a surprise to you. But beyond fresh produce, container farms offer a space for growth for humans, too

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