News About Farming in a Shipping Container

USA: NEW YORK STATE: VIDEO: New Indoor Food Production Facility Coming To East Buffalo

A new indoor food production facility will soon open in East Buffalo, Gov. Hochul announced Monday. It will be housed inside a branded 40-foot shipping container at the Buffalo Go Green’s Zenner Street urban farm

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USA: TEXAS - VIDEO - IDEA San Benito Students Learn To Grow Crops In School's First Hydroponic Farm

This is IDEA San Benito's first hydroponic school farm, which means it grows plants using a water-based nutrient solution rather than soil. "We currently have about 3,000 lettuce heads growing, so it's all in a vertical system, which is very different from just an outdoor horizontal system," Carbajal said

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USA - ROCHESTER, NEW YORK - VIDEO - New Hydroponic Farm On Lake Avenue Aims To Combat Food Insecurity In Rochester

The new agriculture program is being called "The Farm," which is absent of soil and uses water-based nutrient solution at the base of the plants. The crops and herbs are potted and grown inside of repurposed freight containers

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USA: Massachusetts - Boys And Girls Club Trains Young Farmers Via IoT

Freight Farm intelligent farms are fully enclosed shipping containers filled with watering, lighting, fertilizing, and sensors with a Wi-Fi or cellular connection to help new farmers grow crops

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.”

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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