News About Farming in a Shipping Container

Garden Program Blooms At Boston’s Public Schools

The “living laboratory” the space offers can be used to help teach skills in STEM, the arts, history and more, among other benefits, said Katherine Walsh, the director of the district’s Sustainability, Energy, and Environment Program

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FRANCE: Faced With Inflation And Climatic Hazards, These Auvergne Farmers Are Investing In Maritime Containers

The start-up Vif Systems, associated with the Auvergne seed company Limagrain, offers farmers in Puy-de-Dôme 3 x 6 m metal buildings repurposed for growing aromatic plants. A first in France. Julien Chatard, a cereal grower in Limagne, purchased a container to diversify his income by growing aromatic herbs

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Zoning 101: How To Get Your Container Farm Approved & Where To Put It

Zoning laws are a set of guidelines put in place by your local municipality to help guide urban growth and development. In practice, zoning is often used to preserve the character of a neighborhood and to ensure new development is compatible with existing uses and communities

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‘Food Containers As A Way of Moving Forward,’ London Food Bank Proposes A Project To Ease Food Demand

The London and District Construction Association (LDCA) donated a 12-meter container that will be equipped to grow plants in a water-based fertilizer solution rather than in soil. According to the co-director at the Food Bank, Glen Pearson, this project would provide vegetables more consistently and stably for people

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USA: Pennsylvania - Mechanicsburg School Board Authorizes Installation of Hydroponics Lab

The school board initially reviewed Tuesday night’s accepted proposal for a Freight Farms Hydroponics Lab during a presentation by district administrators on Sept. 26. The lab will be located in a self-contained shipping container connected to the high school building

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USDA Offers New Crop Insurance Program For Producers Using Controlled Environments

The new Controlled Environment program from USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) is specifically for plants grown in fully enclosed controlled environments and provides coverage against plant diseases subject to destruction orders. Available beginning in the 2024 crop year

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VIDEO: China-Shipping Container Farm

A single container is as productive as a traditional pond that covers 0.13 hectares." According to Chen, container fish farming uses 95 percent less water and 50 percent less human labor than traditional fish farming

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USA - KANSAS: Hydroponics Is Coming To A Local School System

“USD 235 is excited to be the recipient of a hydroponic shipping container farm through a grant awarded to the Kansas Division of Children and Families,” USD 235 Superintendent Vance Eden said.  “It was announced on September 11th, 2023 that Community Green Farms of Pittsburg Kansas would receive just over $1,000,000 to bring seven southeast Kansas counties vertical hydroponic container farms.”

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CANADA: VIDEO - Nipissing First Nation Greenhouse Sprouts Into Early Success

Mnogin Greenhouse is made up of four trailers. Two of them are already up and running with vertical row-on-row growing of different lettuces and herbs. A third trailer will be launching soon for more produce growing, while the last trailer is set up for packaging and distribution

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USA - Massachusetts - Westport's Lees Market Gets Next-Level Local And Fresh With On-Site Hydroponic Farm

From the outside, it's a 40-foot by 9-foot revamped shipping container, but there's plenty more than meets the eye inside the Westport store's curious new annex that sits at the end of its parking lot. Inside you'll find a 2.5-acre working farm

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What's Inside This Shipping Container In Downtown Ottawa?

Inside this shipping container in downtown Ottawa, Dylan Mitchell, a farm operator with Heartee Foods, is growing and harvesting several varieties of gourmet mushrooms

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US (PA): Container Farm Enters Into Two-Year Renewable Energy Agreement

"Sustainability drives the core of our operations," said Vinnie Lima, Managing Member at GetBlok Farms. "Our approach for hyper-local and highly sustainable farming methods must address the energy consumption in hydroponic farms

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Eagle Mountain High School 1st In Utah To Foster Innovative Farming With Grow Container

The grow container, made by Freight Farms, was purchased by the school through a generous donation from Meta Platforms Inc. — the parent company of Facebook — which has a data center in Eagle Mountain. Freight Farms containers can be owned by anyone wanting to use one

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CANADA: Researchers Land $1M To Grow Berries Year-Round

RAIN, a part of the Sault Ste. Marie Innovation Centre, provides agriculture-related support and resources to producers across Northern Ontario, while Truly Northern and AgriTech North are container farms using sophisticated hydroponic systems to grow greens year-round

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USA: NEBRASKA - Locally Grown, All Year Round: Midplains Produce

A hydroponic system, the Freight Farm is contained within a storage unit sitting not far from the geothermal greenhouse. The Uhrenholdt’s purchased their Freight Farm from a company in Boston. The first planting was in October of last year

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Why Would Two Ladies From Iowa Go To Boston To Attend Farm Camp?

Tapestry Farms represents a new type of innovative farmer using technology provided by Freight Farms to use very little resources and only 320 sq foot of space to produce up to 6 tons of food annually to provide enough food to feed the people they serve while donating surplus to local pantries thanks to River Bend Food Bank

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Can You Make It Kosher?

While all Growcer farms are designed to be closed systems, the movement of operators in and out of the farm create the potential for a sneaky critter to find its way inside

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CANADA: Adding Agriculture To The Classroom: Altario School

In 2022, the Altario School added a hydroponic vertical farm to be able to grow fresh produce and teach students about controlled environment agriculture. The idea to add a Growcer farm came from a grandparent of a couple current students, and was a perfect fit to extend their existing agriculture program.

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