News About Farming in a Shipping Container
Innovative " Freight Farm" Improves Fresh Produce Access In Central Florida Community
AdventHealth Celebration is prioritizing nutrition and sustainability through a new innovative program. Recently, team members at the campus celebrated with a ribbon-cutting ceremony for what’s known as a “freight farm.”
Agritech Start-Up Launches New Digital Farmers’ Market In Zambia - Plans Expansion To Five Countries And Network of Container Farms
Beyond the Hrvst marketplace, Aiponics is also building a container-based aquaponic farm franchise model. The team plans to train local marketeers and young farmers in aquaponics to create additional local capacity and empower more people to get out of poverty
Farming Anywhere, Anytime: How Tulima Farms Plans To Revolutionize Egypt’s Agriculture
Working with Freight Farms, the world’s most productive hydroponic shipping container farm, Tulima has two mobile 40-foot (67.7 cubic meters) shipping containers that were transformed into a full farm from seed to harvest, and grows leafy greens and herbs such as basil, mint, spinach, baby spinach, kale, lettuce, and arugula
VIDEO: A Moveable Feast: Container Farming May Be A Solution To US Food Deserts
Even near some of the busiest cities in the United States, nearly 54 million people have a tough time accessing fresh and healthy food, according to the United States Department of Agriculture. One company based in a Denver suburb said they have a solution
The Future of Vertical Farming
The latest market analysis report titled "Vertical Farming Market by Crop Type and Geography — Forecast and Analysis 2022-2026," predicts the market to witness a potential growth difference of $6.70 billion from 2021 to 2026
Cambridge Trust Provides $12 Million Debt Facility To support Freight Farms' Growth
With a talented management team and well-designed products serving a critical need, we believe Freight Farms is poised to transform agriculture over the years ahead as sustainability and access to quality produce become ever more important."
Lettuce Shortage Becoming A Global Crisis
Transportable hydroponic farms like GrowPods can help provide immediate and permanent solutions to worldwide food shortages
Mobile Farmers Market Sees Skyrocketing Demand Due To Food Insecurity, Rising Grocery Prices
Urban Growers Collective’s Fresh Moves runs five days a week and makes several stops — all at least an hour — at locations across the city’s South and West sides, including South Chicago, Avalon Park, Englewood, and Fuller Park
USA - CALIFORNIA: CSUN Students Grow Robust Vegetable Crops Inside A Freight Container
Freight Farms containers are used in 38 countries and all but one hold-out state in the U.S. “We are fighting mightily to get into North Dakota,” Vanzura said. “I think we are getting close
VIDEO: It's Not Too Late: The Future of Farming?
ABC News’ Ginger Zee reports on what could be an important part of the future of farming and how possible solutions for food scarcity may lie inside shipping containers
King Tide Farms Offers Unusual Greens
What grows inside King Tide’s shipping container will be different from what other local hydroponic farm Vertical Roots is growing, Horne said
Bringing Food Production Indoors: Some Examples
Last month the Indoor Agtech Innovation Summit was held in New York City. It featured the technologies and businesses associated with “Controlled Environment Agriculture,” or CEA which includes everything from greenhouses that still utilize sunlight to “vertical farms” that are completely independent of the outdoor environment
Modular Hydroponic Farms From ACTX Can Turn Anyone Into A Farmer
GrowPods can be placed virtually anywhere and can grow the equivalent of three acres of traditional farmland in an automated environment that can be controlled and monitored remotely
Entrepreneurs Serve Up Farm Fresh From Florida
Hydroponic farming in converted shipping containers is the basis of this entrepreneurial business launched by Shannon O’Malley and her husband Brad Doyle in 2016 in this Pinellas County community nestled between Tampa Bay and the beaches of the Gulf of Mexico.
Feeding And Teaching The Future
The Growcer, uses hydroponics (nutrient-rich water instead of soil and special plant lights instead of sun) and stacks plants to grow more lettuce, kale, spinach, and herbs in smaller spaces
What Are The Benefits of Container Farming?
Container farms allow people to connect their community to produce that is healthy and fresh - where food travels for minutes, not miles
Freight Farms Hires Ralph de Vries For Business Development And Senior Board Advisor
Freight Farms, a Boston-based company in the US, hired Ralph de Vries as their newest Business development and Senior board advisor for Europe
VIDEO: United Kingdom: Introducing Signal Box Farm – Bringing Vertical Growing To Splott!
We’re so pleased to introduce one of the new residents in the BoneYard containers at Railway Gardens: Urban-Vertical CIC
USA: PITTSBURGH, PA - Elizabeth Forward's Freight Farm Grows Enthusiasm For Science
Environmental Science is suddenly a destination course now that Elizabeth Forward High School is the proud owner of a Freight Farm, thanks to a $140,000 grant from the Hillman Foundation
Metro Grand Rapids, Detroit Selected For Expanded Federal Urban Agriculture Program
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Friday announced that both metropolitan Grand Rapids and Detroit are among six new locations for Farm Service Agency urban county committees