News About Farming in a Shipping Container

Partners Growing Mushrooms In Former Shipping Container

With support from investor-turned-business partner Jerrod Appenzeller, Peitzman is determined to grow the largest gourmet mushroom farm in central Iowa in a renovated shipping container in Grimes

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Advanced Container Technologies Inc (OTCMKTS:ACTX) Stock In Focus After Recent Updates

Advanced Container Technologies Inc on June 20, 2022, announced that GrowPods – transportable modular hydroponic farms – can facilitate lowering the global lettuce shortage

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STEM Education In Container Farms

Many schools, from K–12 to college, use Freight Farms to enhance students’ education. A versatile tool, the modular farms provide an opportunity for hands-on activities and nontraditional learning

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State-of-the-Art Vertical Farms Feed Auburn University Campus

Layne first heard about Freight Farms from a previous colleague of his, Dr. Carl Sams, a professor of crop physiology at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, where Sams and his team operate a Freight Farm

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The Next Chapter In Sustainability Arrives For Restaurants

The utility company convinced Freight Farms to relocate the container to the back of Vintage Year in 2019. The restaurant group later purchased a second container, and now the two sit stacked atop each other about 70 feet from the original restaurant

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USA - Pennsylvania - VIDEO - Montco School District Has First Student-Run Hydroponic Farm In State

The vertical hydroponic farm itself is located inside of a custom-building shipping container, whose state-of-the-art design includes technology that allows electricity and fresh water to be inserted into the container's frame

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How Grow Pod Solutions Are Aiding Global Food Security

Grow Pod Solutions (sometimes referred to as GP Solutions) has created a product they call a container farm – a complete farm inside a shipping container. The container farms use a mixture of human operation and automation

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USA: PITTSBURG, Kansas - PHS Students Recycle To Give Back

Today was the first harvest of produce from the school’s new shipping container farm. Thanks to a partnership with Leafy Green Farms, this is allowing the students of PHS to get hands-on training for one of the latest advancements in agriculture, like the students in Aubry Ross’ botany class

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The Trendy, Spendy Future of Tech-Enabled Indoor Farming

The Boston company Freight Farms builds farms into shipping containers for clients who want to feed a small community or run a business. In 10 years it has gone from a Kickstarter campaign to growing food for Google’s office lunches

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USA; DENVER, COLORADO - DougCo’s Mountain Vista HS Pioneers Freight To Farm Program

(Castle Rock, CO) Five years ago, Mountain Vista High School teacher David Larson applied for and won a grant from Mind Spark Learning and the Mortgage Family Foundation to purchase a repurposed shipping container turned vertical farm.

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SCOTLAND: Heron Invests In Cultivating Lettuce In Containers

At Heron, this technology has so far been developed and tested in an inconspicuous shipping container between various metal frames in the farthest corner of the new building in Dornborn

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Inside The Effort To Unionize Square Roots, Kimbal Musk’s Vertical Farming Company

A small team of urban farmers is trying to unionize in Brooklyn, hoping to increase their voice in the workplace. But if union drives at other Musk-led companies are any indication, they face an uphill battle

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VIDEO - USA - KENTUCKY: Louisville Veteran Turns Shipping Container Into Hydroponic Farm

The hydroponic farm is completely operated out of a shipping container that sits off Spring Street in the Irish Hill neighborhood. The container is 40 feet long and 320 square feet. It can grow up to three acres vertically and hydroponically

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USA: NEW YORK: Local Vertical Farming Startup Starting To Scale. It Begins On Buffalo’s East Side

Ellicottville Greens plans to make community-based partners, then become the operating side of their local indoor farming operations. “We’re the farm management company that will come in, design the farm, build it out and manage it entirely,” Bialkowski said

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