News About Farming in a Shipping Container
Cayman Islands: Solar-Powered ‘Farm of The Future’ Could Feed All of Cayman
How do you pack a 150-acre farm that can grow enough fresh, healthy produce to feed the entire population of the Cayman Islands on to a single-acre development site?
AmplifiedAg Introduces Vertical Propagation As The Newest Addition To Its Comprehensive Indoor Agriculture Platform
Ready for commercialization, AmpVPS has the potential to propagate over 100,000 seedlings in each 320 ft2 unit, creating a new high-density option for all growers
USA: FLORIDA - St. Petersburg Urban Farm Brick Street Expands
Brick Street Farms is growing leafy greens inside upcycled shipping containers in a warehouse and parking lot at Tropicana Field — and they're about to get a whole lot more growing power
USA: Minnesota - Four Acres In A Box: Wykoff Couple Venture Into Vertical Hydroponic Farming
The Rahes plan on selling lettuce, microgreens, and herbs to individuals and restaurants around Southeast Minnesota and northeast Iowa
In The Heights: Q&A With Kalera CEO Jim Leighton
For an industry still in relative infancy, it’s breathtaking to consider how far and how fast global vertical farming has grown in the last 10 years
PARIS, FRANCE: Urban Farm For Microgreens From A Freight Farms Shipping Container Farm
Shipping container farm being used to produce microgreens
Auburn University Department of Horticulture’s Freight Farming Program
The two Freight Farms at Auburn University are a part of the college’s horticulture program. They live in the Transformation Garden, an open-air classroom that is a beautiful spot on campus for all students to enjoy and learn
Containers For Hydroponic Cultivation Are Now Requested by Schools
Greatit's Demetra container is attracting the interest of many schools as an innovative teaching tool
Ditto Foods: Rock Ringer & Father of 4 Sprouts Seeds For Change And Community Revival
Ditto Foods is a hydroponic operation, which means everything is grown in a closed environment—no soil, fertilizer or even natural sunlight needed. Instead, plants are raised in an indoor atmosphere and fed the exact nutrient mix needed for optimum growth
USDA To Double CEA Research Center Footprint With New AmplifiedAg Integrated Vertical Farming Research Labs
“We’re extremely proud that the USDA has once again selected AmplifiedAg’s technology to advance and expand its category-defining CEA research,” said Don Taylor, CEO of AmplifiedAg
How To Start A Farm-to-School Program With A Freight Farm
We’re proud that so many schools use our hydroponic farming technology for their farm to school program
Nova Scotia: Know Where Your Food Is Coming From': N.S. Group Grows Produce In Shipping Container
It might not look high-tech on the outside, but inside the Akoma Hydroponic Garden’s shipping container is what some are calling the future face of agriculture
VIDEO: Can A Shipping Container System Make Pricey Shrimp RAS Redundant?
Currently looking to raise $15-20 million, its founder, Daniel Russek, explains why the company is finally coming out of stealth mode and how they can revolutionise indoor shrimp production
VIDEO: Meet A Freight Farmer: King Tide Farms
King Tide Farms is a smart hydroponics farm inside a shipping container located in Charleston, South Carolina
The Sustainable Farming Innovator Delivering To London Homes And Restaurants
Sainsbury’s solution is ingenious. In shipping container-like spaces around London, he is growing a variety of lettuces, leafy greens and herbs using hydroponics, or a method of growing plants without soil, instead using mineral nutrient solutions in water
FFA Container Farm At Johnson Central Receives $10K Donation
Johnson Central High School’s FFA class will be opening a container farm thanks in part to a $10,000 donation from ARH to the AppHarvest foundation. The donation was announced in a ceremony at JCHS on Sept. 2
LettUs Grow Welcomes Established Horticultural Leader, Nick Green, As The New Head of Commercial
LettUs Grow welcomes established horticultural leader, Nick Green, as the new Head of Commercial
USA: FLORIDA - St. Petersburg - Phase 2 Is Underway!
The second-story portion of our farms is nearly complete! We've installed 8 of the 12 new farms which will be stacked on top of our existing ones. Once finalized, we will have 20 active farms, meaning more greens and more room for growth here at Brick Street
Mideast In Pictures: Pick Up Your Vegetable At Israeli Urban "Vertical Farms"
Many portable urban "vertical farms" installed by Israeli agriculture tech company Vertical Field appeared next to supermarkets, restaurants, and shopping malls around the country
Modular Farm At Kelowna School Feeding The Community
Karla Lockwood, the teacher at École KLO Middle School, tells Castanet they started a modular farm back in 2020 in a retrofitted 40-foot shipping container