News About Farming in a Shipping Container

VIDEO - USA - CALIFORNIA: School Embraces Shipping Container Farming

"Our Freight Farm is innovation in action!” We envision a powerful and environmentally friendly path forward that accelerates our district's respect for the environment while at the same time providing delicious and nutritious meals for our students

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Cayman Islands: Solar-Powered ‘Farm of The Future’ Could Feed All of Cayman

How do you pack a 150-acre farm that can grow enough fresh, healthy produce to feed the entire population of the Cayman Islands on to a single-acre development site?

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USA: FLORIDA - St. Petersburg Urban Farm Brick Street Expands

Brick Street Farms is growing leafy greens inside upcycled shipping containers in a warehouse and parking lot at Tropicana Field — and they're about to get a whole lot more growing power

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In The Heights: Q&A With Kalera CEO Jim Leighton

For an industry still in relative infancy, it’s breathtaking to consider how far and how fast global vertical farming has grown in the last 10 years

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Auburn University Department of Horticulture’s Freight Farming Program

The two Freight Farms at Auburn University are a part of the college’s horticulture program. They live in the Transformation Garden, an open-air classroom that is a beautiful spot on campus for all students to enjoy and learn

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Ditto Foods: Rock Ringer & Father of 4 Sprouts Seeds For Change And Community Revival

Ditto Foods is a hydroponic operation, which means everything is grown in a closed environment—no soil, fertilizer or even natural sunlight needed. Instead, plants are raised in an indoor atmosphere and fed the exact nutrient mix needed for optimum growth

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Nova Scotia: Know Where Your Food Is Coming From': N.S. Group Grows Produce In Shipping Container

It might not look high-tech on the outside, but inside the Akoma Hydroponic Garden’s shipping container is what some are calling the future face of agriculture

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VIDEO: Can A Shipping Container System Make Pricey Shrimp RAS Redundant?

Currently looking to raise $15-20 million, its founder, Daniel Russek, explains why the company is finally coming out of stealth mode and how they can revolutionise indoor shrimp production

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The Sustainable Farming Innovator Delivering To London Homes And Restaurants

Sainsbury’s solution is ingenious. In shipping container-like spaces around London, he is growing a variety of lettuces, leafy greens and herbs using hydroponics, or a method of growing plants without soil, instead using mineral nutrient solutions in water

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FFA Container Farm At Johnson Central Receives $10K Donation

Johnson Central High School’s FFA class will be opening a container farm thanks in part to a $10,000 donation from ARH to the AppHarvest foundation. The donation was announced in a ceremony at JCHS on Sept. 2

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