News About Farming in a Shipping Container
VIDEO: Urban Farmer Thinks ‘Inside The Box,’ Grows Greens Inside Shipping Containers
Urban farmer DeMario Vitalis, of New Age Provisions in downtown Indianapolis, Ind., is leveraging the science of hydroponics to grow and sell unique, organic produce in an even-more-unique growing environment
COLORADO: Edible Beats Restaurant Announces Hydroponic Farms At Vital Root
Edible Beats, the 100% Employee-Owned Denver-based restaurant group founded by Chef Justin Cucci, has announced the installation of a Hydroponic FarmBox by Colorado-based FarmBox Foods in the backyard of their plant-based Denver staple, Vital Root
CANADA: Hudson Bay Couple Cultivates Local Produce With Hydroponics
An old elementary school in Hudson Bay has been transformed into a hydroponic farming facility that provides fresh vegetables all year
UNITED KINGDOM: Vertical Farming Comes To Chiswick
Greenhaus Farms is a small start-up company which has a shipping container full of plants in the car park at Chiswick Business Park. Harrison Pritchard and his two co-founders Nick Stace and Georgie Harper-Wilde have been operating there since last September. This is their pilot scheme, and if all goes well they are hoping to expand across London and throughout the UK
VIDEO - The Future of Food - 7 - Vertical Farming: Thinking Inside The Box
Inside their shipping container farm, in West Des Moines, Iowa, thousands of red and blue LED lights create a purple glow as they shine on a series of 7-foot-tall vertical panels draped with growing plant
Square Roots Opening Its Fourth Farm
The facility, located in Shepherdsville, Ky., adds to Square Roots production facilities in Michigan, Wisconsin and Ohio, according to a news release
Research From Bristol's LettUs Grow Finds Environmental Benefits of Renewably Powered Aeroponic Farms
Jack Farmer, study co-author and Chief Scientific Officer at LettUs Grow, said: “This is one of the first studies of its kind. It evaluates aeroponic vertical farming’s environmental credentials under real world scenarios
ACTX Modular Hydroponic Farms Available To Universities For Research And Education
GrowPods are ideal for higher education learning about Controlled Environment Agriculture and Farming
Container Farming: Exploring A New Sustainable Agriculture Model
Container agriculture is a sustainable agriculture, and agricultural planting inside containers is very convenient as long as electricity and water are available
Seven Stars Resort & Spa’s Newest Restaurant ‘The Farm’ Is Opened In Grace Bay
The Farm started when we got our freight farm and when it was delivered on-site we said, you know what, why don’t we just build a restaurant onto the freight farm
Laredo Shipping Container Farm Places Second In National Contest
They feel it helps showcase their cause, as they prepare to make their shipping container farm fully operational in the next few weeks for the community
USA - MISSOURI - Coming Soon To IGNITE Pathways In Woodbine - Farm-In-A-Box Means Fresh Local Greens Year-Round
The high-tech farm, called The Greenery, is housed in an 8-foot-by-40-foot shipping container designed and built by Freight Farms of Boston, Massachusetts
'People Have Lost The Connection With Food': Indoor Farm Hopes to Bring Fresh, Sustainable Products to Wisconsin, Northern Illinois
Founded in 2016 by Kimbal Musk, Elon's brother, and Tobias Peggs, Square Roots mission is to bring sustainable, freshly-farmed products to urban areas. The indoor farms are set up inside shipping-containers and take just 3-4 months of construction before they can be up and running
New Start-Up Grows Saffron In Shipping Containers
Using hydroponic technology, a start-up out of India is revolutionizing how this rare spice is grown
Compare Different Types of Container Farms With Agritecture Designer's New Templates
With Agritecture Designer, our data-backed farm-planning platform, you can plan the farm of your dreams and get started on your controlled environment agriculture (CEA) journey
Modular Farming For Hyperlocal
I recently had the opportunity to Zoom with Freight Farms CEO Rick Vanzura, whose resume includes executive positions at Panera Bread, Wahlburgers, and Borders bookstores
Q&A: Fifth Season’s Former VP On Why It Failed And How Vertical Farming Must Change
Late last year, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based Fifth Season abruptly stopped operations at its only vertical farming facility and closed up shop, abruptly and entirely
AlfaTech (SG) Becomes Integration And Service Partner of Urban Crop Solutions For South East Asia
Urban Crop Solutions has since 2014, been active in the engineering, procurement, and construction of indoor vertical farming solutions for a broad spectrum of applications
VIDEO: Minnesota: Urban Farm Grows Fresh Greens For Restaurants, Residents
Restaurants looking for locally-grown, fresh produce during the winter months must turn to a different type of farm, one in which the complete growing system is in a climate-controlled box
USA: ARIZONA - VIDEO - Container Farm Pilot Shows Promising Signs
Biosphere 2 has recently started a pilot program with a hydroponic farm in a container unit called Freight Farms, and program leaders hope to use agrivoltaics solar panels to save energy