Thanks to a generous donor, two freight farms that will be used for controlled environment demonstrations and research will soon hit the road to West Lafayette.

Growcer is set to leverage this significant capital injection to accelerate its growth trajectory, expand its market reach into more regions such as the northeast U.S., and enhance its product offerings beyond leafy greens and modular structures.

Our diverse farmers share a common goal: providing fresh, local food to their communities.

Tapestry Farms utilizes a shipping container to implement hydroponic (or vertical) farming. It uses small spaces to maximize produce production while using minimal water or energy resources. All in all, it's a more sustainable way to grow fresh produce year-round. 

In Freight Farms' latest episode of Grow Food Here, they follow Hamilton Horne, who used his experience in sales to start his own container farming business selling to local restaurants in Charleston, South Carolina.

Students in Cumberland Schools need not ask questions when it comes to some of their food served in their cafeteria, because the leafy greens they eat are grown right behind Cumberland High School. A large, green shipping container that contains a garden full of greens inside, sits behind the cafeteria.Installed in 2017 by 'Freight Farm,' a lot of work went into getting it up and running.

With 20 containers housing between 3,000 to 4,000 plant sites each, our farm stands as a testament to the potential of sustainable agriculture in urban landscapes.

Last month, Carpenter received a shipping container from Boston. A company there called Freight Farm saves them from junkyards and then adds technology, electricity and water so crops can grow inside.

Noël Schaff of Cardona Farms started a vertical farm in rural Petaluma where she grows an edible garden inside a 40-foot-long freight container but yields the equivalent of 2.5 acres.

In an old tobacco barn in North Carolina, Craig Watts completed three trial runs growing shiitakes before he felt ready to scale up. Then, he pulled a shipping container into one of the four giant barns that have been sitting empty on his farm and connected plumbing and electrical systems that once provided water and lighting for thousands of chickens destined to become Perdue products.

Inside a 320-square-foot repurposed shipping container is a hydroponic operation capable of matching a 3-acre farm's produce yield, a first of its kind initiative on a hospital campus.

Among the selected projects is The Orange Loop Container Park, an ambitious plan to transform a vacant lot into a thriving hydroponic farm and community space using repurposed shipping containers

Mnogin Greenhouse, a container farm west of North Bay producing fresh herbs, greens and lettuces on the Nipissing First Nation, has won the Erica Lagios Memorial Award for Food Sovereignty from reThink Green.

In this article, we’ll examine how stackable container farms can provide space-efficient commercial-level hydroponic production anywhere with a stable power and water hookup.

Brownfield sites represent a lot of underutilised land in cities, while container farms – shipping containers kitted out with hydroponics or aeroponics – can be quickly deployed to grow a lot of fresh produce in a small area.

The concept of farming in a specially designed indoor farm inside a well-designed and equipped shipping container has gained significant traction among agricultural entrepreneurs or "farmtrepreneurs" across the United States.

Two local groups are using state grant money to launch efforts to get food to more people and to help communities grow their own produce.

The initiative aims to innovate agricultural practices by studying plant growth in space’s microgravity and radiation conditions.

Neon Greens owner Josh Smith wants to serve you the best salad you’ve ever had using the freshest greens possible. To do so, he’s opening Neon Greens in the former Rise Coffee space at 4176 Manchester Ave. in the Grove.

“The main goal is to create more access to food-growing spaces and local food year-round,” said Biernan. “It’ll be located on the same land that our community garden currently is.” Evergreens Farm uses an indoor hydroponics system to grow crops, which Biernan said comes with a few advantages.