News About Farming in a Shipping Container

La Sierra University Will Launch 10 New Academic Programs

One container arrived in 2021 for use by the university’s Enactus team to grow leafy greens and herbs utilizing hydroponics-based agriculture. Last school year, the team began using the container to provide education in sustainable agriculture and business practices for local at-risk youth

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Hamilton Horne’s Top 10 Tips For How To Sell Produce To Restaurants

Hamilton Horne is the highly successful entrepreneur behind King Tide Farms, a Freight Farming business in Charleston, SC. He sells produce to the city’s high-end restaurants, whose chefs love the microgreens, flavorful leafy greens, and herbs that he grows

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VIDEO: Urban Bounty Farms Shipping Container Growing Helping Vets

One metro farming business is using a small space to make a big difference for local military veterans. Urban Bounty Farms uses creative ways to grow food inside. FOX4 first told you about their 6,000-square-foot East Bottoms location in April

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Grow It York: The Vertical Farm Under Our Noses

Whilst this container was primarily being used to grow herbs and leafy greens, it could be used to grow potatoes with a deeper tray, or heads of lettuce with a higher space to grow. Although, those would both be less efficient in terms of the usage of space as they would not be able to have as many trays in the container

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USA: NEW YORK - Cubic Acres Secures Funding To Expand "Seed To Salad" Initiative To Grow 3 Million Heads of Lettuce For New York

The partnership will begin with the construction of a fully automated state-of-the-art vertical farming facility - the first of its kind for Long Island - slated to yield one million heads of lettuce annually

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Thirsty Roots Farm

The Kerr family stands outside the Thirsty Roots Farm shipping container. Pictured left to right, front to back: Maggie Kerr, Nancy Kerr, Jarod Kerr, and Jim Kerr

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Boston Company Creates Vertical Farms In Containers That Can Be Moved Anywhere In The World

To date, Freight Farms has experimented in-house with more than 500 different varieties of crops. “It is made up of two areas, the first where the seeds germinate and the second where they receive nutrients and grow,” he explained. Robbie DiMinico, Manager of Brand Engagement & Strategy, Freight Farms

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Top 7 Questions Boys & Girls Clubs Have About Freight Farms

We provide training before you start farming. Either: Farm Camp: Training in a group setting at our headquarters with other new Freight Farmers. Or, On-Site Launch: At your location, with you, your farm operator, Club educators, and any other stakeholders, our team helps you launch your farm and trains you in operating it

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USA-KENTUCKY: Funding Students’ Futures: Floyd County Uses ESSER Funding To Invest In Agricultural Facility

The container farm now rests on the FCSI campus, a collaborative effort between Floyd County schools and Freight Farms. Freight Farms began its operations in 2013 by focusing primarily on urban agriculture, but later expanding to focus on agriculture technology across landscapes

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Ag Weekly: When A Farm Isn’t A Farm

Believe it or not, there’s three acres of produce growing in a parking lot in Lyons Falls. They’re inside a 500-foot shipping container. “Humblebee Farms is classified as a vertical hydroponic farm and we grow lettuce, leafy greens, vegetables, edible flowers,” owner Brandon Cunningham said

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Freight Farms Partners With Local Line To Empower New Farmers

Ontario-based Local Line, founded in 2015, aims to assist existing and aspiring farmers on their path to profitable farming. The platform offers a range of features, such as price lists for different customer segments, inventory management, invoicing, and payment options – all designed to help farmers grow their businesses or kickstart their operations

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USA - CALIFORNIA: Impello Biosciences Partners With Morgan Hill Unified School District To Enhance Student Nutrition Program

Impello's advanced biostimulants help us boost crop yields, quality, and resilience within our Freight Farms and greenhouses, directly benefiting students with more nutritious and flavorful produce in their free meals provided by MHUSD

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USA - KANSAS - FFA Members Peer Into Future of Agriculture At Pittsburg Hydroponic Farm

Their enthusiasm, their excitement just tell us that agriculture is a viable business and a viable industry for the youth and you just have to grab their attention, show them something different, that they’re not going to be on a farm in 120 degrees weather day they’re going to be working in 69 degrees inside on their smartphones growing food,” said Fourby

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VIDEO: USA - Pennsylvania - Montgomery County Students Learn Valuable Skills From Hydroponic Farm

The dream came true, and now the students are learning about the importance of sustainable farming and even picking up some business skills along the way. The 400-square-foot container can produce about two acres of vegetables

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