The city on Wednesday afternoon hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony outside a pair of 40-foot shipping containers converted into hydroponic pods, which sits in the previously-shuttered James Gay III Park near Harrison Avenue and B Street

Students will operate a hydroponic vertical farm at the Career Elevation and Technology Center

Brooklyn is becoming a hotspot for urban agriculture, and one company is trying to change the distance our produce has to travel to end up on our plates. CBS2’s Hannah Kliger shows us how a rooftop and a green thumb can feed millions

“When feasible, we hope to add a shipping container farm to our program, like the containers in the Transformation Garden at Auburn University-- https://youtu.be/E27CVXS2QzM —so that we will be able to fully sustain our lunchrooms with student-grown lettuce, greens and herbs.”

Located in P9 outside of the Hazel McCallion Academic Learning Centre, our UTM Farm is a classic shipping container on the outside, but completely transformed on the inside

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The hydroponic farm is located inside of a shipping container on school grounds. It's also referred to as a "freight farm."

WE GROW VEGETABLES... AND STUDENTS! One student at a time, one classroom at a time, one school at a time

The Growcer, uses hydroponics (nutrient-rich water instead of soil and special plant lights instead of sun) and stacks plants to grow more lettuce, kale, spinach, and herbs in smaller spaces

Container farms allow people to connect their community to produce that is healthy and fresh - where food travels for minutes, not miles

Environmental Science is suddenly a destination course now that Elizabeth Forward High School is the proud owner of a Freight Farm, thanks to a $140,000 grant from the Hillman Foundation

The Ogden Produce Co. container was manufactured by Freight Farms, which makes them already equipped with the lighting, temperature controls, and technology needed to garden

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

“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

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

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

(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.

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

A versatile tool, the modular farms provide an opportunity for kinesthetic learning and hands-on experience with STEM Ed topics