News About Farming in Shipping Containers & Limited Indoor Spaces

Bringing Food Production Indoors: Some Examples

Last month the Indoor Agtech Innovation Summit was held in New York City. It featured the technologies and businesses associated with “Controlled Environment Agriculture,” or CEA which includes everything from greenhouses that still utilize sunlight to “vertical farms” that are completely independent of the outdoor environment

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Freight Farms Hires Ralph de Vries For Business Development And Senior Board Advisor

Freight Farms, a Boston-based company in the US, hired Ralph de Vries as their newest Business development and Senior board advisor for Europe

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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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Partners Growing Mushrooms In Former Shipping Container

With support from investor-turned-business partner Jerrod Appenzeller, Peitzman is determined to grow the largest gourmet mushroom farm in central Iowa in a renovated shipping container in Grimes

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STEM Education In Container Farms

Many schools, from K–12 to college, use Freight Farms to enhance students’ education. A versatile tool, the modular farms provide an opportunity for hands-on activities and nontraditional learning

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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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