News About Farming in a Shipping Container

Auburn University Department of Horticulture’s Freight Farming Program

The two Freight Farms at Auburn University are a part of the college’s horticulture program. They live in the Transformation Garden, an open-air classroom that is a beautiful spot on campus for all students to enjoy and learn

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Ditto Foods: Rock Ringer & Father of 4 Sprouts Seeds For Change And Community Revival

Ditto Foods is a hydroponic operation, which means everything is grown in a closed environment—no soil, fertilizer or even natural sunlight needed. Instead, plants are raised in an indoor atmosphere and fed the exact nutrient mix needed for optimum growth

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Nova Scotia: Know Where Your Food Is Coming From': N.S. Group Grows Produce In Shipping Container

It might not look high-tech on the outside, but inside the Akoma Hydroponic Garden’s shipping container is what some are calling the future face of agriculture

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VIDEO: Can A Shipping Container System Make Pricey Shrimp RAS Redundant?

Currently looking to raise $15-20 million, its founder, Daniel Russek, explains why the company is finally coming out of stealth mode and how they can revolutionise indoor shrimp production

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The Sustainable Farming Innovator Delivering To London Homes And Restaurants

Sainsbury’s solution is ingenious. In shipping container-like spaces around London, he is growing a variety of lettuces, leafy greens and herbs using hydroponics, or a method of growing plants without soil, instead using mineral nutrient solutions in water

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FFA Container Farm At Johnson Central Receives $10K Donation

Johnson Central High School’s FFA class will be opening a container farm thanks in part to a $10,000 donation from ARH to the AppHarvest foundation. The donation was announced in a ceremony at JCHS on Sept. 2

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VIDEO: Crop In The Ocean: Start Up Harvests Vegetables On Floating Farm

A start-up presented its newest prototype of a floating greenhouse, where vegetables can be grown on a plantation without soil, as footage filmed in Almere on Wednesday shows.

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USA: FLORIDA - St. Petersburg - Phase 2 Is Underway!

The second-story portion of our farms is nearly complete! We've installed 8 of the 12 new farms which will be stacked on top of our existing ones. Once finalized, we will have 20 active farms, meaning more greens and more room for growth here at Brick Street

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Mideast In Pictures: Pick Up Your Vegetable At Israeli Urban "Vertical Farms"

Many portable urban "vertical farms" installed by Israeli agriculture tech company Vertical Field appeared next to supermarkets, restaurants, and shopping malls around the country

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Modular Farm At Kelowna School Feeding The Community

Karla Lockwood, the teacher at École KLO Middle School, tells Castanet they started a modular farm back in 2020 in a retrofitted 40-foot shipping container

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Grow It York lands Best Community Initiative Award

The farm called Grow It York, was created by the FixOurFood team at the University of York in 2021 when Professor Katherine Denby teamed up with LettUs Grow, an indoor farming technology provider from Bristol and Spark

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VIDEO: Fresh Greens In The Dry Arizona Desert

“We saw the Farm Wall on the internet, and the next thing you know, we owned it! Now we have a fully functioning farm with no dirt,” says Tim

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VIDEO: Doug Heldoorn, CEO of ACTX, And Shannon Illingworth, Inventor of GrowPods, Describe Future of Farming

"One GrowPod will grow about an acre of food with a third of the water compared to traditional farming," he stated. "With an automated and controlled environment, GrowPods can reduce or even eliminate most chemicals, pesticides, contaminants, and disease

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