News About Farming in a Shipping Container

VIDEO - USA - CHICAGO: Students Learn STEM Skills & Give Back To Community

Container farming is growing plants or crops in special shipping containers instead of planting them in the ground and thirteen high school students just harvested the first crop in a container farm in Altgeld Gardens

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Worcester, Massachusetts: Leominster Food Programs To Benefit From State Grants

The $5,823 will serve to build a safe storage area for the protective equipment students participating in the program wear when they work in the enclosed environment of the freight farm, said 2GetherWeEat founder Charles Luster

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Northern Illinois University Unveils 'Hydropod' Project To Research Nutritious Food Growth

In early December 2023, a 40-foot by 8-foot container was delivered to Northern Illinois University (NIU) behind Anderson Hall. While resembling a standard shipping container, the unit houses a complete hydroponic farming system

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Shipping Container Farming Meets Community Need

Mario Vitalis, Indianapolis, wanted to expand his expertise from his regular 9-to-5 job to develop his own business and support his community. He dreamed of providing fresh food to his community through urban farming

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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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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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