News About Farming in a Shipping Container

CSUN To Shorten Distance Between Farm to Table With Freight Farming

California State University, Northridge has launched a new initiative to shorten the distance from farm to table by growing its own produce using a new form of agriculture

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Building Food Sovereignty On Pine Ridge Reservation

Rebel Earth is an experimental farm: a place where new ideas and technologies can be tested and adapted to fit the Lakota culture and the Northern Great Plains ecosystem

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6 Steps To Becoming A Container Farmer

Vertical container farming is on the up. Continuing pressure on UK growers to diversify their crops, rewild their land and use greener growing practices means that utilising the economic and environmental benefits of vertical farming is more popular than ever

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US: Indiana Grown: New Age Provisions Farms

New Age Provisions, founded in 2018, specializes in commercial hydroponic farming. It is the first Indiana company to farm inside a shipping container

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Q&A: Amplified Ag’s Female Leaders Discuss The Future of CEA and Container Farming

Amplified Ag makes both container farming hardware as well as software to power a variety of indoor farms including greenhouses, container farms and vertical farms

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VIDEO: Crate To Plate - Hydroponic Farming London

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

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US: California - LADWP Indoor Farm Has First Kale Harvest

Northridge-area youth harvested the first batch of kale Thursday from the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s new indoor farm inside a shipping container.

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New Sustainable Salad Is Being Grown In Urban Shipping Containers By A Member of The Sainsbury’s Dynasty

Unlike traditional vegetable growing, which is a thirsty business, each batch of 600 lettuces needs only the equivalent of a household dishwasher’s worth of water

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VIDEO: Colorado Springs Zoo Growing Food In Shipping Containers

Cheyenne Mountain Zoo staff set up a hydroponic farm inside shipping containers. Their goal is to grow more than half of the lettuce they need for their animals

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VIDEO: Farm Highlight: Diversifying The Dairy Farm

Audrey and Dominic run a small dairy and mixed grain farm near Sherbrooke, Quebec. Recently, they decided to take on a new adventure and expand their 40-cow operation with a 40-foot container farm

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CARDI To Assess Success of Shipping Container Farming In St. Kitts And Nevis

Flemming said, “We are again using this shipping container retrofitting with hydroponics and vertical agriculture. In 2022, we want to look at the feasibility of this system

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US (FL): Sustainable Self-Sustaining Farm Hubs To Empower Local Production

It started off as a dream to promote local, urban agriculture with a focus on environmental sustainability. Now, Shannon O’Malley and Brad Doyle, co-founders of Brick Street Farms have officially broken ground for their new BSF Retail Hub.

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You Know What A Greenhouse And Vertical Farm Are, But What Is Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA)?

Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) is an advanced and intensive form of hydroponically-based agriculture where plants grow within a controlled environment to optimize horticultural practices

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Farming In A SHIPPING CONTAINER!?

Hydro farming (vertical hydroponics) in a shipping container! join hope Cahill & myself as she spills all the deets on the Robbinsville hydroponic farm

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