News About Farming in a Shipping Container

Town to Table Expands Boston-Area Hydroponic Vertical Farming Operation; Increasing Capacity by 500%

To outfit their new facility, Town to Table partnered with South Carolina-based indoor-agriculture technology company Amplified Ag, whose enterprise-grade technology-enabled container farms regulate environmental inputs such as light, water, and plant nutrition to yield consistent, fresh produce year-round

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Vertical Farm In The Works At The Ritz-Carlton Abu Dhabi

"Sustainability is becoming more and more important for a business like ours," says Hoehn. The Abu Dhabi property has more than 500 keys and "so carbon footprint is a top agenda point for us."

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CANADA: Legacy Co-op Announces Sustainable Modular Farm Project

Legacy Co-op will add a 10-foot by 40-foot, insulated, pre-fabricated modular growing system behind the Yorkton food store. “The container is currently in the building stages and will arrive for placement in the spring and the first crop will take six to eight weeks from grow until harvest"

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Nongshim's Container-Type Smart Farm Goes For Pilot Project In Oman

SEOUL -- Nongshim, a food, and beverage company in South Korea, will export a container-type vertical smart farm for a pilot project in Oman, which has launched a state smart farm initiative to decrease its reliance on food imports

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Core Electric, FarmBox Foods Announce Partnership To Grow Trees For Reforestation

A groundbreaking reforestation program launched by CORE Electric Cooperative and FarmBox Foods is using innovation to achieve a new form of environmental stewardship

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Techstars Alabama EnergyTech Startup Spotlight: Shipshape Urban Farms

Shipshape designs and manufactures modular, hydroponic farms that make fresh vegetables accessible in markets year-round. Shipshape training allows urban “agripreneurs” to produce 5.1 acres of crops within a 500-square-foot “Smart Farm”

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Fresh From the Farm

In the facility’s south parking lot near the Nicholson Center, the hospital administration has set up its 40-foot-by-8-foot Freight Farm. Freight Farms is a Boston-based agriculture technology company that manufactures and sells container farms — hydroponic farming systems assembled inside intermodal freight containers

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How Two Brothers Plan To Save The World By Packing A Whole Farm Into Shipping Containers On A Denver Used Car Lot

Ullr’s Garden, launched a few months ago by a couple of brothers who want to save the world and sell some sustainable arugula, is growing the equivalent of a 10-acre farm on a dusty 7,500-square-foot lot

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’What Has AppHarvest Done For Eastern Kentucky? ‘ They’ve Delivered The Jobs.

These are 40-foot, steel shipping containers that have been retrofitted with HVAC, LED and irrigation system to allow students to grow these leafy greens and you can do herbs,” said Amy Samples, the vice president of community outreach and the director of the AppHarvest Foundation, the company’s charitable giving and education arm

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Square Roots Furthers U.S. Expansion With New Kentucky Facility

Since establishing their strategic partnership in 2019, Square Roots and Gordon Food Service have been building indoor farms together across the continent

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VIDEO: From Shipping Container To Green Machine; UA’s Biosphere 2 Finds New Ways To Grow Food

Right now, with just one “Freight Farm,” the B2 teams is growing 800 heads of lettuce a week. It does everything hydroponically and gives these lush, green walls of produce all the light, temperature control, and nutrients they need

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UNITED KINGDOM - WEST LONDON - Greenhaus Brings Smart Farms Into The City At Chiswick Park

Chiswick Park has been chosen as the first location for Greenhaus Farms, a new company deploying state-of-the-art vertical farms inside shipping containers, to bring sustainable farming to West London

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How To Start A Farm To School Program With A Freight Farm

Here at Freight Farms, our mission is to make it possible for anyone to grow food anywhere — and that includes you! The Greenery™ S simplifies many of the barriers to entry and complicated aspects of farming

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