News About Farming in a Shipping Container
Could Container Farms Revolutionize The Farming Industry?
Typically constructed within redundant buildings or warehouse units, vertical farms are becoming an established sector of the farming industry, but what about container farms? In simple terms, a container farm is a vertical farming system that is built inside a shipping container
The Growing Trend of Shipping Container Farms: Unlocking Sustainable Agriculture
Shipping container farms represent an exciting and innovative approach to sustainable agriculture. With their space efficiency, mobility, and climate control capabilities, these farms hold immense potential to address food security, reduce environmental impact, and foster local food production
Agrinam Acquisition Corporation Files Preliminary Prospectus For Proposed Qualifying Acquisition With Freight Farms, Inc
Details of the Qualifying Acquisition are included in the Prospectus and were also announced by Agrinam and Freight Farms in the press release dated October 4, 2023. The Prospectus has been filed on SEDAR+ and may be viewed by shareholders and interested parties under Agrinam's profile on SEDAR+ at www.sedarplus.ca
Freight Farms - Resource Center - The Education Program Guide & Curriculum
Here you will find booklets and guides, short video clips, and templates designed to help you better run your container farm from start to harvest.
Garden Program Blooms At Boston’s Public Schools
The “living laboratory” the space offers can be used to help teach skills in STEM, the arts, history and more, among other benefits, said Katherine Walsh, the director of the district’s Sustainability, Energy, and Environment Program
Zoning 101: How To Get Your Container Farm Approved & Where To Put It
Zoning laws are a set of guidelines put in place by your local municipality to help guide urban growth and development. In practice, zoning is often used to preserve the character of a neighborhood and to ensure new development is compatible with existing uses and communities
USA: Connecticut DoAg Announces Connecticut Grown For Connecticut Kids Grant Opportunity
$1 million Available Annually Over The Next Two Years, Plus An additional $2 Million For Shipping Container Garden Projects
USA: Pennsylvania - Mechanicsburg School Board Authorizes Installation of Hydroponics Lab
The school board initially reviewed Tuesday night’s accepted proposal for a Freight Farms Hydroponics Lab during a presentation by district administrators on Sept. 26. The lab will be located in a self-contained shipping container connected to the high school building
USA - KANSAS: Hydroponics Is Coming To A Local School System
“USD 235 is excited to be the recipient of a hydroponic shipping container farm through a grant awarded to the Kansas Division of Children and Families,” USD 235 Superintendent Vance Eden said. “It was announced on September 11th, 2023 that Community Green Farms of Pittsburg Kansas would receive just over $1,000,000 to bring seven southeast Kansas counties vertical hydroponic container farms.”
USA - Massachusetts - Westport's Lees Market Gets Next-Level Local And Fresh With On-Site Hydroponic Farm
From the outside, it's a 40-foot by 9-foot revamped shipping container, but there's plenty more than meets the eye inside the Westport store's curious new annex that sits at the end of its parking lot. Inside you'll find a 2.5-acre working farm
US (PA): Container Farm Enters Into Two-Year Renewable Energy Agreement
"Sustainability drives the core of our operations," said Vinnie Lima, Managing Member at GetBlok Farms. "Our approach for hyper-local and highly sustainable farming methods must address the energy consumption in hydroponic farms
Eagle Mountain High School 1st In Utah To Foster Innovative Farming With Grow Container
The grow container, made by Freight Farms, was purchased by the school through a generous donation from Meta Platforms Inc. — the parent company of Facebook — which has a data center in Eagle Mountain. Freight Farms containers can be owned by anyone wanting to use one
USA: NEBRASKA - Locally Grown, All Year Round: Midplains Produce
A hydroponic system, the Freight Farm is contained within a storage unit sitting not far from the geothermal greenhouse. The Uhrenholdt’s purchased their Freight Farm from a company in Boston. The first planting was in October of last year
Why Would Two Ladies From Iowa Go To Boston To Attend Farm Camp?
Tapestry Farms represents a new type of innovative farmer using technology provided by Freight Farms to use very little resources and only 320 sq foot of space to produce up to 6 tons of food annually to provide enough food to feed the people they serve while donating surplus to local pantries thanks to River Bend Food Bank
USA: ILLINOIS - ISU Discusses New Freight Farm Installation On Campus At Water Wednesday
A Freight Farm is a converted shipping container. It is outfitted with LED lights, soilless farming equipment and a small lab area, all housed within a climate-controlled container
USA: Massachusetts - Students Growing Vegetables In Hydroponic Freight Farm
Students in a Haverhill YMCA after-school program are growing their own vegetables and herbs. Only they aren't doing it on a plot of land, but instead hydroponically inside a specially designed shipping container called a Freight Farm
Old MacDonald Has An App: ‘Smart Farming’ Coming To Springfield In A Shipping Container
Each container features a state-of-the-art controlled environment with a hydroponic system running on less than 5 gallons of water per day. Willams says he can grow a thousand pounds of lettuce per month per container
Freight Farms, Inc., an Agtech Industry Pioneer of Modular CEA, and Agrinam Acquisition Corporation Execute a Business Combination Agreement
Freight Farms, Inc. and Agrinam Acquisition Corporation have signed a definitive agreement for a business combination with a pro forma market cap valuation for the combined entity of approximately US$147 million
USA: TEXAS - IDEA Public Schools Celebrates New Hydroponic Farm Program, Thanks to Green Mountain Energy Sun Club
The new shipping container facility, named ‘Freight Farm,’ was made possible thanks to a grant of more than $178,000 from Green Mountain Energy Sun Club
VIDEO - USA - KANSAS: CGF Receives $1m Grant For Hydroponic Farms
PITTSBURG, Kan. — Community Green Farms (CGF), a non-profit initiative by Pittsburg-based Leafy Green Farms, was awarded $1,052,000 by the Strengthening People and Revitalizing Kansas