News About Farming in a Shipping Container

State-of-the-Art Vertical Farms Feed Auburn University Campus

Layne first heard about Freight Farms from a previous colleague of his, Dr. Carl Sams, a professor of crop physiology at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, where Sams and his team operate a Freight Farm

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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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SCOTLAND: Heron Invests In Cultivating Lettuce In Containers

At Heron, this technology has so far been developed and tested in an inconspicuous shipping container between various metal frames in the farthest corner of the new building in Dornborn

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