News About Farming in Shipping Containers & Limited Indoor Spaces

Local Indoor-Grown Food Vendors Utilize Grocery Delivery Service PineMelon To Fill Seasonal Produce Gaps In Denver

Despite Colorado’s cold winter weather, two shipping containers at Uller’s Garden sprout vertical panels of lettuce, arugula and basil. Equal to five acres of land and using 95% less water, the hydroponic system feeds the growing rows of plants with essential nutrients from a constantly circulating water system while high efficiency LED lights supply them with all the sunshine they could need

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Is Controlled Environment Agriculture Investable Today?

In the world of M&A, Freight Farms, the leading seller of container farms in North America, has entered into a merger agreement with Agrinam Acquisition Corp. to go public via SPAC

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Shipping Container Farms: Cultivating The Future of Agriculture

The concept of shipping container farms emerges as a beacon of hope and innovation as conventional farming methods face challenges such as land scarcity, water shortages, and the impact of climate change

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EmPOWERED To Serve Business Accelerator™ Awards $72K To Maryland Black Farmers

Geb-ra Organics, a startup that aims to build an Aquaponics farming complex in Baltimore using recycled shipping containers, with a public and private school system training program, won first place and $35,000 in grant funding

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VIDEO: Chicago Farming Company Grows Fresh Produce In Shipping Containers To Help Fight Food Deserts

Ditto Foods is a Chicago-based hydroponic farming company combating food deserts by growing fresh produce in shipping containers — for a fraction of the price of traditional farming! CEO and founder Derek shares how he was inspired to start the company after losing his job during the pandemic

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New Black-Owned Freight Farm In Rural Minnesota To Tackle Food Insecurity, Health Inequities

In February, Route 1 will place its first Freight Farm in the rural community of Loretto, population 650. It will be the first Black-owned freight farm in Minnesota.  “It allows the farmer..to take these farms and really place them wherever the need exists,” Carpenter told the Daily Yonder

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NIU Adds “Hydropod” Vertical Farming System to Edible Campus Project

In early December, a special delivery arrived behind NIU’s Anderson Hall. The 40-foot-by-8-foot box may look like a standard shipping container, but inside you’ll find a complete, self-contained hydroponic farming system

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CT DoAg Awards $2.8 Million Investing In 53 Farm-to-School-Based Projects

The eight shipping container growing unit awardees include: High Ridge Hydroponics, LLC, Norwalk - Thy Neighbors Farm, Torrington - Groton Public Schools, Groton - Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, Mashantucket - High School in the Community, New Haven - Seacoast Mushrooms, Mystic - Keney Park Sustainability Project, Windsor - DeFrancesco and Son Inc., Northford

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VIDEO: Hear From Rick Vanzura, CEO of Freight Farms Live at ICR Conference 2024

IPO Edge hosted a fireside chat at the 2024 ICR Conference with Rick Vanzura, CEO of Freight Farms. The in-person interview was joined by Editor-in-Chief John Jannarone and they discussed future global trends and prospects for the agricultural technology industry

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