News About Farming in a Shipping Container

Celebrating Harvest Day At Vernon Hill School's Freight Farm Program

The 2gether We Eat nonprofit recently received a $265,000 grant to buy a freight farm and operate it at Vernon Hill School. Students celebrated their first harvest of leafy greens Wednesday by sharing the food with family and friends

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Las Vegas Inaugurates Urban Farm In Historic Westside

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

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USA: ALABAMA - Gulf Shores High School's Small Town, Big Garden Sets Fundraiser

“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.”

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Feeding And Teaching The Future

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

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What Are The Benefits of Container Farming?

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

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USA: PITTSBURGH, PA - Elizabeth Forward's Freight Farm Grows Enthusiasm For Science

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

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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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