News About Farming in a Shipping Container

UK: Vertically Urban And LettUs Grow Partner With University of York

Housed in one of LettUs Grow's state-of-the-art DROP & GROW™ container farms, Grow It York sits at the heart of the city as part of an outdoor community space called SPARK

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Tomato Hydroponic System To Make Debut At Fruit Logistica, Berlin

The focus of the Tomato+ stand is Horto Professional, the vertical farming system for professional farming. Horto Professional takes up the space of a container and only requires a connection to the water and electricity network

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VIDEO: Freight Farm Improves Access To Fresh Produce In A Community of Central Florida

AdventHealth is the first hospital in Central Florida to have an agricultural program. In 2022, AdventHealth developed a unique freight farm, improving the access to fresh produce in Central Florida

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USA: MINNESOTA - The Future of Vegetable Farming Has Arrived In Wykoff

According to Freight Farms, the annual harvest is 2-6 tons. The equivalent land yield is 2-4 acres annually, and the power usage is on average 168-231 kWh per day

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VIDEO: Two Colorado Companies Are Collaborating In Innovative Reforestation Techniques

FarmBox Foods, a company that makes modified shipping containers to grow food, is partnering with CORE Electric Cooperative to grow trees from seed to sapling using a unique and innovative technique called vertical hydroponic farming

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LettUs Grow Delivers First of It's Vertical Farms In A Shipping Container

The first Drop and Grow aeroponic container farms have been rolled out to a client by Bristol-based vertical farming company Lettus Grow and Walsall-based shipping containers business S Jones Containers, after a government grant helped them develop the innovation

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Climate Change Outside Pushes Veggie Crops Inside

These days, there are more than 2,000 vertical farms in the US, and many have opted to move their technologies, micro-climates and crop stacks into insulated, shipping container-size modules

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PODCAST: Episode 278: Rick Vanzura - CEO, Freight Farms

In this episode of our podcast, we cover: All the information on Freight Farms in terms of how their container farms work, plus details on the company’s business model which includes hardware, software, and services

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CANADA: Modular Farm Project To Provide Year-Round Produce At Saskatchewan Grocery Store

Legacy Co-op will add a 10-foot-by-40-foot insulated, prefabricated 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,” Thurston said

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CANADA: New Greenhouses Will Bring The Green To Nipissing

The greenhouses are fully contained and designed for cold weather, so placing them further north would be ideal to help increase food security

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