News About Farming in Shipping Containers & Limited Indoor Spaces
Inside The Farm Growing In An AdventHealth Parking Lot
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.
USA: New Jersey - Atlantic City's Economic Revival: $10 Million in Grants Fuel Five Innovative Projects
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
CANADA: Northeastern Businesses Celebrated For Sustainability
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.
Benefits of Stackable Hydroponic Containers For Urban Farmers
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.
Vertical Farming on Bristol's Brownfield Sites
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.
Thy Neighbor's Farm: How A Marine Vet Is Combating Food Insecurity In His Community
With the grant, they are set to embark on an exciting new chapter in their farming journey by incorporating a pre-owned shipping container farm from SecondHand Farms into their operations.
Stonington Mushroom Farmer Tackles Energy Costs With Solar Power
Farmer Chris Pacheco prides himself on growing food and feeding people, but at his farm there are no green fields or hoop houses cultivated with rows of vegetables. Instead, his growhouses are climate-controlled, commercial shipping containers where he produces about 1,000 pounds of mushrooms per week that are sold across the state at farmers markets and restaurants.
Produce Now Launches Innovative Mushroom Farming Initiative With GrowPods
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.
Local Organizations Rolling Out Plans To Address Food Insecurity
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.
Shipshape Urban Farms And Above Space Launch Seeds To ISS
The initiative aims to innovate agricultural practices by studying plant growth in space’s microgravity and radiation conditions.
St. Louis, Missouri: First Look: Neon Greens In The Former Rise Coffee Space In The Grove
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.
BRITISH COLUMBIA: Fernie Hydroponics Farm To Open In Spring
“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.
Water’s Journey: Inside a Hydroponic Container Farm
In this blog, we’ll describe the journey that water takes through a hydroponic system like ours, from the second it enters the unit to the minute it exits.
Freight Farms: How This Company Is Transforming The $140+ Billion Controlled Environment Agriculture Industry
Freight Farms is an industry pioneer and global market leader of modular controlled environment agriculture, with more than 600 modular farms sold across 40 countries. “We believe it is just the beginning of Freight Farms’ growth journey as we continue to revolutionize controlled environmental farming.”
Container Farm on Campus | Inside California Education
Tour a hydroponic farm inside a shipping container at a Bay Area school that’s growing the district’s salad greens.
How Hyperlocal Container Farming Is Revolutionizing Access To Fresh Food In Toronto, Canada
Our mission is simple yet profound: to provide our community with access to the freshest, most nutritious mushrooms possible, all while minimizing our carbon footprint and supporting local food systems. And we're proud to say that we're doing just that, one mushroom at a time.
Sustainable Food Production Isn’t Just Possible, It’s Inevitable
At FarmBox Foods, we strive to change the way the world farms by connecting communities to sustainably sourced, locally grown food, year-round. With a focus on producing environmentally conscious and future-oriented food systems, we seek to end food inequality with our innovative and eco-friendly farms
Agrinam Acquisition Corporation Announces Second Amendment To Business Combination Agreement with Freight Farms, Inc.
Freight Farms debuted the first vertical hydroponic farm built inside an intermodal shipping container with the mission of democratizing and decentralizing the local production of fresh, healthy food. Since its inception, Freight Farms has refined its product offering to arrive at the Greenery™ container farm.
VIDEO - USA - CHICAGO: Students Learn STEM Skills & Give Back To Community
Container farming is growing plants or crops in special shipping containers instead of planting them in the ground and thirteen high school students just harvested the first crop in a container farm in Altgeld Gardens
Worcester, Massachusetts: Leominster Food Programs To Benefit From State Grants
The $5,823 will serve to build a safe storage area for the protective equipment students participating in the program wear when they work in the enclosed environment of the freight farm, said 2GetherWeEat founder Charles Luster