News About Farming in a Shipping Container

SCOTLAND: Heron Invests In Cultivating Lettuce In Containers

At Heron, this technology has so far been developed and tested in an inconspicuous shipping container between various metal frames in the farthest corner of the new building in Dornborn

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Inside The Effort To Unionize Square Roots, Kimbal Musk’s Vertical Farming Company

A small team of urban farmers is trying to unionize in Brooklyn, hoping to increase their voice in the workplace. But if union drives at other Musk-led companies are any indication, they face an uphill battle

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VIDEO - USA - KENTUCKY: Louisville Veteran Turns Shipping Container Into Hydroponic Farm

The hydroponic farm is completely operated out of a shipping container that sits off Spring Street in the Irish Hill neighborhood. The container is 40 feet long and 320 square feet. It can grow up to three acres vertically and hydroponically

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USA: NEW YORK: Local Vertical Farming Startup Starting To Scale. It Begins On Buffalo’s East Side

Ellicottville Greens plans to make community-based partners, then become the operating side of their local indoor farming operations. “We’re the farm management company that will come in, design the farm, build it out and manage it entirely,” Bialkowski said

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Farm On Wheels Brings Hands-On Food Education To Edmonton Classrooms

To most, the farm on wheels would look like a shipping container on the back of a truck. But to Debra Davidson, a professor at the University of Alberta and director of Prairie Urban Farms, it's so much more

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Dubai Hotel Launches New Hydroponic Container Farm

Founded in July 2020, GreeenTech is the first in the Czech Republic to produce hydroponic containers, a technological solution to enable local cultivation of vegetables, microgreens and small fruits anywhere in the world

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Meet The High-Tech Urban Farmer Growing Vegetables Inside Hong Kong’s Skyscrapers

Gordon Tam, co-founder and CEO of vertical farming company Farm66, wants to show that agriculture, combined with technology, has a promising future in cities, deserts and even in outer space

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US: Pennsylvania - Methacton High School’s Hydroponic Farm Has Growing Impact On Students, Community

Students at Methacton High School are growing vegetables in an unlikely place – a shipping crate. It’s called a Hydroponic Farm. Inside the shipping crate, plants grow in vertical rows, without soil, using a mineral rich water system

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VIDEO: Food To Change The World: How To Grow Rice And Fish In Urban Vertical Farms

Innovators from Aqualita Ecotechnology have developed a shipping container fish farming system while scientists from the Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory are testing out a multi-storey rice farm

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VIDEO: New Additions to Customer Success at Freight Farms - Spring 2022

This video outlines the major projects our Crop Research, Training, and Support teams have been working on to benefit both new and veteran growers, as well as what we have in store for later in the year

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VIDEO: Are High-Tech Containers The Future of Farming?

FarmBox Foods, based in Sedalia, Colorado, has spent the last four years developing automated farms in shipping containers to grow gourmet mushrooms, organic leafy greens, culinary herbs, peppers, small tomatoes and fodder for livestock.

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FarmBox Foods Finds More Uses For Shipping Container Farms

FarmBox Foods, which provides hydroponic vertical farms for grocery stores and other businesses, recently branched into the production of fodder for livestock

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