News About Farming in a Shipping Container

Freight Farms - Live Webinar! Vertical Farming Veterans

Join us for a webinar featuring David Payne, Owner of Beats per Minute, a veteran-owned vertical farming company from Kansas City, Missouri. Specializing in high-quality basil, Beats Per Minute supplies over 50 grocery stores and is in high demand.

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Masters Degree To Teach 'Smart' Future of Farming

Working in glasshouses and solar-powered shipping containers, they develop 'recipes' to produce food crops far faster than would be possible outdoors. n the UK, the university's results are attracting interest from the commercial food sector, which wants to install similar shipping containers in distribution centres.

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USA - PENNSYLVANIA: Inside A Repurposed Shipping Container, Elizabeth Forward Students Are Growing The Future — And Themselves

This story is one in a series created in collaboration with the AASA Learning 2025 Alliance to celebrate the work of groundbreaking school districts in the Pittsburgh region. Kidsburgh will share these stories throughout 2024.

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Urban Crop Solutions Promotes Microalgae Cultivation

The client's goal is to produce microalgae to enhance the sustainability of its business. To further improve its production, acustomized controlled indoor farm, which can later be scaled, is essential. After a detailed technical analysis, UCS presented a design that met all the requirements.

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Seven Stars Resort and SpaTurks and Caicos | EST. 2022

Seven Stars Resort & Spa, a premier luxury destination in Turks and Caicos, transformed their approach to sourcing fresh produce by implementing an on-site Freight Farm. Within a short period of time, they successfully halved their reliance on leafy greens imports, achieving significant financial savings while addressing environmental concerns.

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Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York

The Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York has tackled food insecurity with the addition of an on-site Freight Farm, providing fresh, culturally relevant produce to communities in need while reducing reliance on inconsistent donations.

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Ghana: Vertical Farm Entity Flourishes In Accra

Besides being on top of growing plants themselves, Farm Estate is also adopting franchising models across Ghana. "Our scalable container farms offer a modular, climate-controlled solution for year-round local food production." The franchise model comes in two different sizes; a single container farm, and a double one which has the in-house made Farm Management Software and crop recipes integrated.

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Video: Freight Farms Greenery™ Farm Tour Recording

Explore the technology behind the Freight Farms' container farm that allows farmers to grow food anywhere in the world! Following an overview of the Greenery, Vanessa Igoe, our Customer Success Specialist, will address pre-delivery farm site preparation, zoning requirements, and more.

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Freight Farms Pop Up Event in Denver, Colorado on Saturday June 15, 2024

Join us for the Freight Farms Pop Up Event in Denver, CO on Saturday Jun 15, 2024 at 1532 S Acoma St, Denver, CO 80223. Come and experience the latest innovation in farming technology with Freight Farms, a company that specializes in creating sustainable and efficient farming solutions.

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SecondHand Shipping Container Farms and Growing Equipment: A Sustainable and Cost-Effective Choice

Starting a homegrown garden or launching a small-scale urban farm can be incredibly rewarding. However, the initial investment in equipment can be a significant hurdle. This is where the world of secondhand growing equipment and container farms comes in, offering a wealth of benefits that make them a fantastic choice for the budget and environmentally-conscious grower.

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VIEDO: Chicago By The Hand Club For Kids Uses Shipping Container To Help Bring Produce To food Desert

Farming in the city is happening at Chicago's Altgeld Gardens on the city's Far South Side.Young people are planting and growing the vegetables to bring produce to a food desert. Bowen Harvest has a big shipping container on South Ellis Avenue. There's a farm inside, where impressive amounts of produce are being grown.

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University of Essex Grows Onions In ‘Bright Pink Shipping Containers’

Researchers from the University of Essex will try to grow onions outside traditional soil-based methods – inside a bright pink shipping container. A new partnership between the university and onion supplier Stourgarden will trial the technique to explore making the onion production process more environmentally friendly.

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Learning More About Hydroponics With Rahe of Sunshine Farms

Rahe of Sunshine Farms have two shipping containers on site and most of their produce is grown vertically, but it all starts with the nursery. “Every one of these containers has 288 pods in them,” Rahe said. “We put them in the nursery for one week with the humidity domes on them,” he said.

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VIDEO: Rural Hennepin Co. Gets 'Minnesota's First Black-Owned Freight Farm'

Based in Boston, Freight Farms supplies farmers in 41 countries worldwide with a freight container so they can grow food inside it instead of on large swaths of land. "These shipping containers … they end up either in the ocean or in some junk yard, and so what we're able to do with Freight Farms is use these containers," Carpenter explained.

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New Vertical Farming BioTech Grows Plants In The Dark

Square Roots, a controlled environment agriculture (CEA) startup, recently introduced a groundbreaking program supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The program aims to demonstrate the feasibility of removing light from commercial indoor vertical farming by utilizing gene-edited (CRISPR) plants that grow heterotrophically. These plants can add biomass through carbon uptake from acetate in irrigation water, enabling growth “in the dark,” in an indoor vertical farm.

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Rooting For Our Neighbors: FeedMore WNY's Vertical Farm helping Tackle Food Insecurity

FeedMore has two indoor, vertical hydroponic container farms, all to help with food insecurity. The two facilities are about 40 feet long, creating another resource for neighbors in need.

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Zoning 101: How To Navigate Zoning For Your Container Farm

On average, it can take anywhere from two weeks to three months to get a site approved, so we recommend going to your zoning board sooner rather than later when starting your project.

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New Zealand: Taupō Mushroom Farm: City Couple’s Business Sprouts From Pandemic

Forage’s HQ is a 600 square metre warehouse brimming with shipping containers and climate-controlled, purpose-built equipment and mushroom grow kits which the pair sell online to those who want to grow their own in just six days.

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Agriculture’s Purchase of Two Container Farms To Help ‘Revolutionise Food Security’

Agriculture and Marine Resources Minister Jomo Campbell highlighted the advantages of container farming during yesterday’s handover ceremony, noting the country’s challenges with climate, land availability, and soil quality.

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