News About Farming in Shipping Containers & Limited Indoor Spaces
EmPOWERED To Serve Business Accelerator™ Awards $72K To Maryland Black Farmers
Geb-ra Organics, a startup that aims to build an Aquaponics farming complex in Baltimore using recycled shipping containers, with a public and private school system training program, won first place and $35,000 in grant funding
VIDEO: Our Project Consists of The Production of Microgreens In A Container on The Small Belt of The 14th Arrondissement of Paris
The Tontons Flowers team is a family structure made up of two brothers passionate about everything related to the environment and the culinary world
Freight Farms Is a Hydroponic Agricultural Farming Company Who Is Revolutionizing Sustainable Farming Practices Through The Use of Shipping Containers
The company recently moved and expanded their headquarters to 20 Old Colony Avenue and brought RODE on to design their new space
New Black-Owned Freight Farm In Rural Minnesota To Tackle Food Insecurity, Health Inequities
In February, Route 1 will place its first Freight Farm in the rural community of Loretto, population 650. It will be the first Black-owned freight farm in Minnesota. “It allows the farmer..to take these farms and really place them wherever the need exists,” Carpenter told the Daily Yonder
NIU Adds “Hydropod” Vertical Farming System to Edible Campus Project
In early December, a special delivery arrived behind NIU’s Anderson Hall. The 40-foot-by-8-foot box may look like a standard shipping container, but inside you’ll find a complete, self-contained hydroponic farming system
Masdar City Launches Smart Vertical Farm With AgriTech Firm In Food Security Push
The vertical farm will be housed in two repurposed shipping containers near Masdar City’s Eco-Plaza, the first of which is already up and running, with plans to expand the second in the coming year
An Immersive 3D Virtual Experience
Explore our container farm in detail — at your own pace, or with the help of a video guide
CT DoAg Awards $2.8 Million Investing In 53 Farm-to-School-Based Projects
The eight shipping container growing unit awardees include: High Ridge Hydroponics, LLC, Norwalk - Thy Neighbors Farm, Torrington - Groton Public Schools, Groton - Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, Mashantucket - High School in the Community, New Haven - Seacoast Mushrooms, Mystic - Keney Park Sustainability Project, Windsor - DeFrancesco and Son Inc., Northford
VIDEO: A White-Board Animation Showing The Impacts of Growing Produce In A Vertical Hydroponic Farm Made By FarmBox Foods
Watch our new whiteboard video, which briefly illustrates the benefits of growing produce in the Vertical Hydroponic Farms we build and sell. If you're so inclined, share it with your network
Benefits of Shipping Container Farms
Indoor farms have become one of the latest trends to be gripped by the craze of transforming the humble shipping container for a brand new purpose other than transportation or storage
4 Main Benefits of Shipping Container Farming
There are many options for interior farming, such as greenhouses or climate-controlled tents. However, a popular trend in the agricultural world is utilizing shipping containers
What It Takes To Feed The Community In The Polar Bear Capital of The World
The sub-arctic community of Churchill, Manitoba, located on the western shores of the Hudson Bay, in northern Canada, often captures media attention for the way locals have learned to coexist with the largest land-based predator on the planet
Farm in a Box
High school students from Cleveland suburbs Euclid, Wickliffe, and Mentor are growing crops in a unique environment that teaches them about the future of high-tech farming while offering insight into modern agriculture business.
VIDEO: How Vertical Farming Can Help Fix Our Food System
Can vertical farming revolutionize our food system? Yes, says Dr Alana Kluczkovski from the University of York's Centre for Novel Agricultural Products
Is Indoor Farming Entering A New Era? Growing Without LEDs
Square Roots, a CEA startup announces a new program to prove that light can removed from a commercial vertical farming system and is supported by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Freight Farms Drives Growth of Container Farm Adoption Across Nonprofit, Healthcare and Education Sectors
The Greenery’s main growing area features 88 plant panels and 112 LED panels. The LED panels are hyper-directionally focused on the plant canopy to prevent light waste and yield fuller, heavier crops in shorter time-frames
$180,000 Hydroponic Farm Teaching Students About Environmental Science Innovation
Students in Haltom City are learning a new way to understand the world we live in and how technology is helping us take better care of it
Hydroponic Farm: A Revolution In Environmental Education At Haltom City School
An area the size of a truck has been transformed into a thriving hydroponic farm, a testament to the innovative strides in environmental science education. This endeavor, backed by a generous $180,000 grant, underscores the potential of integrating real-world applications into the learning experience
Freight Farms, Inc., To Participate In The 26th Annual ICR Conference
Rick Vanzura, Chief Executive Officer of Freight Farms, and Monalisa Shroff, Chief Financial Officer of Freight Farms, will participate in the 26th Annual ICR Conference, to be held January 8-10, 2024 in Orlando, Florida
New Indoor Vertical Farming Facility Opens In Buffalo, N.Y.
This new vertical farm is in a 40-foot-long shipping container at Buffalo Go Green’s Zenner Street urban farm. The organization said the new vertical farm will grow vegetables and herbs year-round without soil