News About Farming in Shipping Containers & Limited Indoor Spaces
USA: ALABAMA - Students Plan Plant-Based Meals For Earth Week
Auburn students, Grace Reilein, Emory Morgan and Elie Creswell, partnered with Tiger Dining and the Sustainability Capstone course to celebrate Earth Week by providing plant-based meals at The Edge
What Does ChatGPT Know About Co-Creative Urban Farming And Vertical Farming?
Co-creative urban farming and vertical farming offer innovative ways to grow food in urban areas, promoting sustainability, social equity, economic development, and community building.
Contain Inc launches Mushroom White Paper Featuring FarmBox Foods
Indoor ag fintech specialist Contain Inc announced the release of its white paper exploring the growing popularity of mushrooms in the indoor agriculture industry
VIDEOS: A Potential Solution: Indoor Farming - Dr. Dickson Despommier
By the year 2050, nearly 80% of the earth’s population will reside in urban centers. Applying the most conservative estimates to current demographic trends, the human population will increase by about 3 billion people during the interim
Celebrating Harvest Day At Vernon Hill School's Freight Farm Program
The 2gether We Eat nonprofit recently received a $265,000 grant to buy a freight farm and operate it at Vernon Hill School. Students celebrated their first harvest of leafy greens Wednesday by sharing the food with family and friends
USA: St. Louis, Missouri - Neon Greens Is Bringing Hydroponic Greens – And A Show – To The Grove This Summer
Josh Smith and his team will utilize two container farming systems produced by startup Freight Farms: Situated outside the restaurant, each will able to yield about three acres of produce
USA: OKLAHOMA - High-Tech Garden Showing Tulsa 'Just What Is Possible'
Planted inside a 40-foot shipping container, the hydroponic garden includes a set of surround-sound speakers. And William Woods likes to play oldies for the plants
Freight Farms Chooses Allen & Gerritsen As Brand Agency of Record
Allen & Gerritsen expands its sustainability portfolio with the addition of the world's leading manufacturer of container farming technology
Thinking Inside The Box
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
Las Vegas Inaugurates Urban Farm In Historic Westside
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
LAREDO, TEXAS - Local Shipping Container Farm In Final Round of National Competition
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
NEW YORK STATE: Vertical Farming Operation Considers Olean For Site
Ellicottville Greens grows more than 20 different kinds of vegetable greens in specialized shipping containers like this one behind Eastern Hills Mall in Clarence
FarmBox Foods Talks Container Farming At Indoor Ag-Con
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
Q&A: Freight Farms' Rick Vanzura Talks Partnering With Schools And Universities
Freight Farms partners include Auburn University, Mountain Vista High School in California and Saint Joseph's College of Maine
5 Suggestions For Starting A Vertical Farm
Starting a vertical farm can be an exciting and rewarding venture, but it also requires careful planning and research. Here are five suggestions to consider when starting a vertical farm
TURKS & CAICOS: The Farm Restaurant At Seven Stars Resort & Spa To Open Soon
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
A School Uses A Freight Farm For FFA Programming And Agriculture Education
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.
VIDEO: Las Vegas, Nevada - First Seedlings Begin To Sprout At Historic Westside Urban Farm
Las Vegas (KSNV) — Crops at the new Historic Westside farm are beginning to bloom
Could A Container Farm Be The Right Choice For Your CEA Facility?
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 Designs Soil-Free Farming Event: From Containers To Tables, Growing Lettuce Using AI
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