News About Farming in a Shipping Container
VIDEO: Interview With A Freight Farmer - Ryan McGann From CubicAcres Farms
CubicAcres is a sustainable vertical farming company focused on delivering Hyper local, Sustainable, fresh, and nutrient dense produce to the Long Island and New York City region
GrowPods From ACTX Can Help Non-Profits And Community Groups Reduce Food Insecurity
Controlled Environment Farms such as GrowPods, can provide a sustainable, consistent, predictable supply of certain fresh fruits, vegetables, and leafy greens virtually anywhere
VIDEO - USA - BUFFALO, NEW YORK - FeedMore WNY Grows Produce In Shipping Container Farms
In the parking lot of FeedMore's headquarters on James E. Casey Drive in Buffalo sit a pair of container farms, where the organization grows kale, Swiss chard, bok choy, and even edible flowers in an indoor, pesticide-free, sunless environment
What Is Hydroponic Cultivation? - A History
Hydroponics offers many advantages to traditional farming, including using less water, better allocation of space, no soil needed, no pesticides, climate, and environmental control, faster plant growth, and less labor required
AmplifiedAg Supplies Vertical Farming Technology For International CEA Wastewater Research Project
South Korea and South Carolina research institutions collaborate on initiative to repurpose wastewater into a nutrient-rich irrigation source in modular vertical farms, serving as a sustainable food supply in urban, impoverished, and disaster areas
VIDEO - Trinidad & Tobago: Hydroponic Farms To Reduce Food Imports - Cube Root Farms
Developed by Cube Root Farms, the farm comprises of a state-of-the-art hydroponic farming system retrofitted inside a freight container
VIDEO: USA - Michigan - Metamora Couple Found The Future of Farming In Shipping Containers
Metamora Greens is expanding with a second shipping container on order. You can find their products online via Market Wagon or in person at the Royal Oak Farmers Market
Saffron Grown Inside A Container Farm At Pune Using Soil-Less Farming Method
On November 13, 365D Farms at Pune announced that they have grown Kashmiri saffron inside a shipping container
Town to Table Expands Boston-Area Hydroponic Vertical Farming Operation; Increasing Capacity by 500%
To outfit their new facility, Town to Table partnered with South Carolina-based indoor-agriculture technology company Amplified Ag, whose enterprise-grade technology-enabled container farms regulate environmental inputs such as light, water, and plant nutrition to yield consistent, fresh produce year-round
Vertical Farm In The Works At The Ritz-Carlton Abu Dhabi
"Sustainability is becoming more and more important for a business like ours," says Hoehn. The Abu Dhabi property has more than 500 keys and "so carbon footprint is a top agenda point for us."
CANADA: Legacy Co-op Announces Sustainable Modular Farm Project
Legacy Co-op will add a 10-foot by 40-foot, insulated, pre-fabricated modular growing system behind the Yorkton food store. “The container is currently in the building stages and will arrive for placement in the spring and the first crop will take six to eight weeks from grow until harvest"
USA: ILLINOIS - VIDEO: Couple Uses Hydroponic Farm To Increase Fresh Produce Access For All
When the pandemic made them reevaluate the future, one thing was certain: they would be giving back to those in need
Nongshim's Container-Type Smart Farm Goes For Pilot Project In Oman
SEOUL -- Nongshim, a food, and beverage company in South Korea, will export a container-type vertical smart farm for a pilot project in Oman, which has launched a state smart farm initiative to decrease its reliance on food imports
Core Electric, FarmBox Foods Announce Partnership To Grow Trees For Reforestation
A groundbreaking reforestation program launched by CORE Electric Cooperative and FarmBox Foods is using innovation to achieve a new form of environmental stewardship
Techstars Alabama EnergyTech Startup Spotlight: Shipshape Urban Farms
Shipshape designs and manufactures modular, hydroponic farms that make fresh vegetables accessible in markets year-round. Shipshape training allows urban “agripreneurs” to produce 5.1 acres of crops within a 500-square-foot “Smart Farm”
We’re In The Midst of Helping Square Roots Build Out A Growing Network of Hydroponic Farms Across The U.S
Square Roots v3, completed in 2022, is a vertical farming campus for the farming technology company Square Roots
Fresh From the Farm
In the facility’s south parking lot near the Nicholson Center, the hospital administration has set up its 40-foot-by-8-foot Freight Farm. Freight Farms is a Boston-based agriculture technology company that manufactures and sells container farms — hydroponic farming systems assembled inside intermodal freight containers
How Two Brothers Plan To Save The World By Packing A Whole Farm Into Shipping Containers On A Denver Used Car Lot
Ullr’s Garden, launched a few months ago by a couple of brothers who want to save the world and sell some sustainable arugula, is growing the equivalent of a 10-acre farm on a dusty 7,500-square-foot lot
’What Has AppHarvest Done For Eastern Kentucky? ‘ They’ve Delivered The Jobs.
These are 40-foot, steel shipping containers that have been retrofitted with HVAC, LED and irrigation system to allow students to grow these leafy greens and you can do herbs,” said Amy Samples, the vice president of community outreach and the director of the AppHarvest Foundation, the company’s charitable giving and education arm
Square Roots Furthers U.S. Expansion With New Kentucky Facility
Since establishing their strategic partnership in 2019, Square Roots and Gordon Food Service have been building indoor farms together across the continent