News About Farming in a Shipping Container
Meet The Founder: CEA Engineer & Advisor Erika Summers On Why (Vertical) Farming Isn’t A ‘Get-Rich-Quick’ Industry
Historically, mechanical concerns like building structure, HVAC systems and the like haven’t received much airtime in public chats about vertical farming
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
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
COLORADO: SVVSD Receives $100K Grant For Sky Garden
Students will operate a hydroponic vertical farm at the Career Elevation and Technology Center
VIDEO: Urban Farming Grows In Brooklyn
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
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.”
CANADA: University of Toronto Mississauga - We Are Thrilled To Be Officially Launching Our UTM Farm!
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
VIDEO: New York Power Authority Joins Harlem Grown and EPRI in Collaborative Demonstration To Educate Local Youth About Urban Farming, Sustainability And Nutrition
Project Research Study to Inform Climate Actions, Evaluate Energy and Environmental Impacts, and Measure Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction
USA - Pennsylvania: Hydroponic Farm At Montco School Gets Visit From PA Officials
The hydroponic farm is located inside of a shipping container on school grounds. It's also referred to as a "freight farm."
VIDEO: The Green Bronx Machine, Film by Food Inspiration
WE GROW VEGETABLES... AND STUDENTS! One student at a time, one classroom at a time, one school at a time
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
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
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
USA: UTAH - Ogden Restaurateur Sees Green — Lettuce, Cost Savings — In Container Farm
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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