News About Farming in Shipping Containers & Limited Indoor Spaces
King Tide Farms Offers Unusual Greens
What grows inside King Tide’s shipping container will be different from what other local hydroponic farm Vertical Roots is growing, Horne said
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
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
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
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
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
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
Bringing The Farm To The People
A fleet of high-tech container farms is delivering locally-grown food security to communities from Alaska to Egypt
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
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