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.”

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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."

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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