From small orchards to high-tech vertical farming, producing food in urban areas could help address key social and environmental issues

While FarmBox Foods, a Colorado-based manufacturer of containerized farms, has made its name with a tech-driven Vertical Hydroponic Farm, it’s increasingly gaining attention for its start-to-finish Gourmet Mushroom Farm

Over the last few weeks, we’ve been exploring the options faced by prospective growers. Ultimately, comparing systems means crunching the numbers and understanding your market, your community, and the “why” behind your project

When Brad McNamara and John Friedman wanted to grow Freight Farms using IoT tech, they brought on CEO Rick Vanzura

A 340-square-foot shipping container produces a yield equivalent to 2 to 4 acres of farmland, or more than 6,000 pounds of leafy greens per year

5-Star resorts and leading hotels are now using smaller modular pods to provide guests with gourmet cuisine experiences

The campaign will feature about 15 billboards in its target markets as well as video advertising on the Hulu streaming service and a social media campaign on its platforms

The three Freight Farms allow Primitive Greens to defy the very things that make fresh food so scarce on the island: a lack of arable land, extreme weather which makes farming near-impossible, and those long shipping lines

Essentially a sustainable ‘farm-in-a-box’, a hydroponic container farm can produce many different crop types using 90% less water and 95% less land*. Grow leafy vegetables, herbs, flowers, fruiting plants, gourmet mushrooms, houseplants, and more!

Members of the Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) Alliance met with more than 25 Congressional, USDA, and State Departments of Agriculture leaders in January to advance the importance of CEA production in the upcoming 2023 Farm Bill and other legislation

The product line consists of three components: Farmhand form, grow, and boost, each designed to provide essential macro and micronutrients to support healthy plant growth in hydroponic systems

Good news! They indicate that 2023 is a great year to start hydroponic farming. From food safety to local purchasing and supply chain to healthy eating and environmental sustainability, recent studies and events suggest that now is the time to start a hydroponic farm

Fox Urban Farm Owners Ann and John Fox show a flat of the fresh specialty lettuce they are growing in Winchester’s first urban hydroponic farm on South Loudon Street

“When feasible, we hope to add a shipping container farm to our program, like the containers in the Transformation Garden at Auburn University-- https://youtu.be/E27CVXS2QzM —so that we will be able to fully sustain our lunchrooms with student-grown lettuce, greens and herbs.”

The social services nonprofit and city utility want to participate on a “smart farm” project at Adams, Lee, Davis and Houston streets with Freight Farms

School gardens teach students how to grow fresh, nutritious produce and help them develop healthy eating habits. Some school farming programs are forgoing traditional gardens for enclosed hydroponic shipping container farms (HSCFs)

Installed in 2017 at the Robbinsville Senior Center, the farm is a container farm called the Leafy Green MachineTM produced by Freight Farms

Tobias shares the company's innovative approach to creating a more sustainable and resilient business, from their technology platform to their sustainability initiatives

Rick Vanzura, CEO of Freight Farms, joins sustainability and climate contributor Bonnie Schneider to discuss the world’s largest network of IoT-connected farms spanning 49 U.S. states and 33 countries.

There’s many types of hydroponic farming systems like nutrient film technique (NFT), deep water culture (DWC) and ebb and flow. All these systems deliver nutrient-rich water to the plants in different ways and fit under the umbrella of hydroponic farming