How do you pack a 150-acre farm that can grow enough fresh, healthy produce to feed the entire population of the Cayman Islands on to a single-acre development site?

The Rahes plan on selling lettuce, microgreens, and herbs to individuals and restaurants around Southeast Minnesota and northeast Iowa

Shipping container farm being used to produce microgreens

The two Freight Farms at Auburn University are a part of the college’s horticulture program. They live in the Transformation Garden, an open-air classroom that is a beautiful spot on campus for all students to enjoy and learn

Ditto Foods is a hydroponic operation, which means everything is grown in a closed environment—no soil, fertilizer or even natural sunlight needed. Instead, plants are raised in an indoor atmosphere and fed the exact nutrient mix needed for optimum growth

We’re proud that so many schools use our hydroponic farming technology for their farm to school program

King Tide Farms is a smart hydroponics farm inside a shipping container located in Charleston, South Carolina

You've heard of farming, but what about hydroponic farming? A Mokena-based farm is tackling this new way to farm produce in a shipping container farm

In addition to greenhouse production, Big Tex Urban Farms has installed a 40-foot shipping container nicknamed GroZilla that has been used to produce a variety of crops, including leafy greens

In New York, Maryland, California, and beyond, hydroponic farms are being used as teaching tools while also addressing food access challenges

Alex Pate is the farm manager of Square Roots Brooklyn. Alex talks about Square Roots and their mission to grow food in the city with technology-based agriculture, using container units fitted out to maximize limited amounts of space

Biosphere 2 is turning to Freight Farms to further novel research on creating a circular economy of food production, its benefits and the role of vertical farming

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FH365 takes advantage of new technology that allows the conversion of shipping containers into fully functional high-tech hydroponic gardens using proprietary software that allows fresh vegetables to be grown almost anywhere at a modest investment

Watch to see local and nationwide stakeholders — including Shreveport's mayor and EPRI's Principal Technical Leader — and Shreveport Green farmers announce this exciting project

Trevor Spear traded homebuilding for farming out of a shipping container and now sells produce to some of Raleigh’s most acclaimed eateries

The Vintage Hospitality Group, which operates Vintage Year and other popular Montgomery eateries, grows its greens hydroponically out of two customized shipping containers stacked on each other in back of its namesake restaurant. It calls the operation MGM Greens

Data helps us to understand the relationships between the physiology of plants and their response to environmental variables at a level that has not been possible before - Jon Friedman, Co-founder and COO, Freight Farms

Hoping to use their green thumbs to revolutionize vegetable farming in Egypt, Tulima Farms uses state-of-the-art technology and ancient Egyptian farming techniques to help modernize climate-positive farming

Freight to Plate is responsible for this innovative idea. Sisters Mary and Jacqueline Scala own this business in the Fulton Market District

Tour the Vertical Farms in Downtown Raleigh. During the open house, you’ll get to experience the future of farming and taste incredible locally-grown produce!