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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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