Inside their shipping container farm, in West Des Moines, Iowa, thousands of red and blue LED lights create a purple glow as they shine on a series of 7-foot-tall vertical panels draped with growing plants

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

Although the two shipping containers have different designs and will be created to grow different things, some of the main foods that they will create include microgreens, hydroponic strawberries, edible flowers and hydroponic lettuce

Ellicottville Greens grows more than 20 different kinds of vegetable greens in specialized shipping containers like this one behind Eastern Hills Mall in Clarence

While FarmBox Foods, a Colorado-based manufacturer of containerized farms, has made its name with a tech-driven Vertical Hydroponic Farm, it’s increasingly gaining attention for its start-to-finish Gourmet Mushroom Farm

Freight Farms partners include Auburn University, Mountain Vista High School in California and Saint Joseph's College of Maine

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The new restaurant concept, which will be located on the corner of Grace Bay Road, just west of the Seven Stars Resort entrance, will showcase a collection of chef-curated herbs, greens and produce grown and managed by the culinary team in its on-site Freight Farms hydroponic farm

Lessons on the parts of seeds, plants, and flowers and their functions and on plant reproduction are intermixed with students being tasked with identifying careers around plant science.

Las Vegas (KSNV) — Crops at the new Historic Westside farm are beginning to bloom

Agritecture Designer recently introduced a new modeling feature: the ability to design container farms. This method of farming has many advantages for the right farmer and is a great way for smaller operations to get off the ground because of the (typically) lower CapEx involved in opening the farm

Pinduoduo, one of China’s largest e-commerce companies, is hosting the third Smart Agriculture Competition on Chongming Island in Shanghai. The competition challenges four finalist teams to grow high-quality lettuce in 90 days without sunlight or soil

“I discovered freight farms when I saw a video about the Square Roots project in Brooklyn highlighting the technology and capabilities of growing food in a shipping container. I had no prior knowledge of this growing system before, but I saw a need in the community.”

A container farm, or freight farm, is a climate-controlled hydroponic farm with a vertical farming system built inside a shipping container that produces a variety of leafy greens

When Brad McNamara and John Friedman wanted to grow Freight Farms using IoT tech, they brought on CEO Rick Vanzura

A 340-square-foot shipping container produces a yield equivalent to 2 to 4 acres of farmland, or more than 6,000 pounds of leafy greens per year

The product line consists of three components: Farmhand form, grow, and boost, each designed to provide essential macro and micronutrients to support healthy plant growth in hydroponic systems

Good news! They indicate that 2023 is a great year to start hydroponic farming. From food safety to local purchasing and supply chain to healthy eating and environmental sustainability, recent studies and events suggest that now is the time to start a hydroponic farm

Fox Urban Farm Owners Ann and John Fox show a flat of the fresh specialty lettuce they are growing in Winchester’s first urban hydroponic farm on South Loudon Street

“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.”