News About Farming in a Shipping Container

How Can Greenhouses, Vertical Farms & Container Farms Work Together?

Greenhouses, vertical farms and container farms are all different forms of indoor farming, also known as Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA). As our climate grows increasingly hostile, and we wake up to the environmental cost of exporting produce across the globe, nations are turning to indoor farming in an effort to strengthen food networks and reduce their reliance on international exports

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New Things Ahead For Brick Street Farms, Naked Farmer

Brick Street Farms converts shipping containers into hydroponic farms that grow leafy greens and herbs in a technology-based, climate-controlled environment. The container units house rows of various crops that are harvested year-round

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Urban Farming & Power Research

Watch to see local and nationwide stakeholders — including Shreveport's mayor and EPRI's Principal Technical Leader — and Shreveport Green farmers announce this exciting project

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Home, Sweet Shipping Container

Now, they're helping other people build container homes. Correspondent Luke Burbank talks with homeowners who refuse to be boxed into traditional notions of home construction

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Indoor, Hydroponic Farms Sprouting Across Alabama

The Vintage Hospitality Group, which operates Vintage Year and other popular Montgomery eateries, grows its greens hydroponically out of two customized shipping containers stacked on each other in back of its namesake restaurant. It calls the operation MGM Greens

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Freight Farms Named 2022 “IoT Monitoring Solution of The Year” By AgTech Breakthrough

Data helps us to understand the relationships between the physiology of plants and their response to environmental variables at a level that has not been possible before - Jon Friedman, Co-founder and COO, Freight Farms

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USA: FLORIDA - Brick Street Farms Celebrates A Homecoming With Its New Market

Brick Street Farm owners have been slowly preparing for something of a homecoming. What started with a few converted shipping containers in a lot grew to a fleet of vertical farms in an expanded space in the Warehouse Arts District

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UNITED KINGDOM: Sustainable Bristol Student Start-Up Branches Into Prison Partnership To Aid Rehabilitation

They recently delivered an aeroponic container farm, called DROP & GROW, to HM Prison Hewell in Worcestershire where Prisoners will be introduced to indoor farming practices to gain experience in a fast growing industry and train in horticulture, with the aim of helping them secure full-time employment upon release

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CHINA: Pinduoduo Launches Vertical Farming Challenge For 3rd Smart Agriculture Competition

Now in its third edition, participants in the annual precision farming competition will be putting their skills in computing algorithms and agronomy to work cultivating lettuce inside shipping containers in a vertical farming challenge

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MEXICO: Your Future Shrimp Meal Could Come From Atarraya’s Farming Technology

A Shrimpbox farm system enables farmers to become vertical aquaculture farming operations. This includes cargo containers that can be located even in landlocked areas and moved accordingly to suit production needs

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VIDEO: It’s Not Too Late: The Future of Farming?

ABC News’ Ginger Zee reports on what could be an important part of the future of farming and how possible solutions for food scarcity may lie inside shipping containers

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New Vertical VIDEO: Aquaculture Technology Offers Sustainable, Profitable, Globally Scalable Protein Source

Housed in cargo containers, Atarraya’s ‘plug-and-play,’ AI-powered Shrimpbox delivers up to 10x the ROI of traditional poultry or swine farming, creating new opportunities for farmers — even in landlocked, highly populated areas

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Freight Farms Open House In Raleigh

Tour the Vertical Farms in Downtown Raleigh. During the open house, you’ll get to experience the future of farming and taste incredible locally-grown produce!

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VIDEO: Is Indoor Farming On a Path To Profitability?

Often criticized for their 'unsustainable finances', indoor farming companies are today, making efforts to cut their operational expenses, increase their revenues and thus, increase their profitability. But are they on the right track?

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