We have seen and heard a lot about shipping containers lately. Now, Angelenos are finding a new use for them

Our founder, Sebastien, believed that consumers in cities should be able to buy higher quality food, free of any pesticides, which hasn’t been shipped from thousands of miles away to be consumed several days after harvest

Brick Street Farms has been on the forefront of this industry because of their experience in design and manufacturing of their THRIVE Containers as well as the operation of those farms for financial sustainability

“It’s sustainable. It uses 95% less water and electricity,” he said. “And we’re going to be able to grow crops throughout the year.”

Together Kris and Brenda developed a start-up plan that includes selling a variety of lettuces to local grocers and restaurants between Halifax and Enfield, Nova Scotia

In the Future of Food podcast, we are joined by India Langley - Head of Communications at LettUs Grow

Agency will utilize AmplifiedAg’s advanced hydroponic container-based vertical farming platform to study crop production, food safety, market quality, and nutrition of produce grown in controlled agriculture environments

Over the course of a year, beginning in March 2019, Vertical Field-installed indoor urban farms outside of three Rami Levy supermarket branches located in Modiin, Ashdod, and Bnei Barak

“This launching serves as our first step in reaching our goal. Today, we established our country’s first urban farming hydroponic research and training facility to overcome food shortages and heal hunger in the Philippines,” Agriculture Secretary William Dar said in his speech

He revealed that one container farming unit at the Ragunan Tourism Agro Educational Center, South Jakarta, was the result of the collaboration of the DKI Provincial Government through the KPKP Service and PLN Care

Agriculture is vital to Pennsylvania's economy and to this region. At Wingate Elementary, the 40-foot mobile lab is parked just outside the classrooms

N.Thing offers 'CUBE', a modular container vertical farm, and its solution 'CUBE OS'. In May 2021, N.Thing signed a deal with Sarya Holdings in the United Arab Emirates to construct a $3 million vertical farm within this year

Learn more about farming in the Greenery S container farm - www.freightfarms.com/greenery-s

Green Stream Holdings Inc., an emerging leader in the solar utility and finance space, has recently announced projects in the rapidly growing urban gardening sector with solar greenhouses dedicated primarily to rooftop farming, and projects to convert old shipping/cargo containers into inexpensive greenhouses for urban and inner-city neighborhoods

EWEN, Mich. (WLUC) - K-5 students at Ewen-Trout Creek School took a step into a mobile farm lab to learn a bit about agriculture

Just 5 gallons of water per day and the right amount of LED lighting, carbon dioxide, nutrients, and humidity can yield bountiful harvests in shipping container farms — no pesticides or herbicides needed

The pre-built 40-foot shipping containers (manufactured by Freight Farms in Boston) are climate-controlled and can operate year-round, providing approximately 320 square feet of vertical growing space, and producing the output of nearly 3.5 acres of flat farming each, or 8 tons of produce

“We see significant potential for Square Roots farms across our U.S. and Canadian distribution footprint,” said Wolowski of GFS. “We’ll pace our investments consistent with demand and other market conditions, beginning with several sites already planned in the next 12 months.”

FarmBox Foods is based in Sedalia and has spent four year developing automated farms in shipping containers. The container farms use hydroponic water systems that consume 90% less water than traditional farms in a fully controlled growing environment, according to the company

Utilizing proprietary thrive containers, the hub will grow an equivalent of 16-20 acres of traditional farmland on 1/3 acre lots. In addition to the growing containers, Brick Street Farms has designed and engineered additional containers which fulfill the other required aspects of the facility: centralized systems, retail, dry storage, and cold storage