News About Farming in a Shipping Container
IDEUSA - TEXAS - VIDEO - A Eastside Uses School Farm To Grow Food For Cafeteria, Teach Respect For Agriculture
Officials at IDEA Eastside took a shipping container and converted it into an indoor farm. Leafy green vegetables are grown in columns that are exposed to LED lights and purified water.
VIDEO: GROW FOOD HERE University of North Texas
The University of North Texas Dining Services has earned a stellar reputation nationwide for its unwavering commitment to sustainability and self-sufficiency
USA - GEORGIA - VIDEO - Better Fresh Farms Leading Hydroponic Growth In Georgia
The future of farming is here inside several modified shipping containers, tucked away in a downtown Metter warehouse
USA: NEW YORK STATE: VIDEO: New Indoor Food Production Facility Coming To East Buffalo
A new indoor food production facility will soon open in East Buffalo, Gov. Hochul announced Monday. It will be housed inside a branded 40-foot shipping container at the Buffalo Go Green’s Zenner Street urban farm
Rooted In Knowledge: FAQS About Horticulture Technicians, Farm Support And Growcer Farms
Horticulture Technicians are all about plant health. Their role records and tracks plant growth, makes sure that the plants receive the right amount of water and nutrients, and to carry out treatment if—or when—a plant shows signs of disease or pest damage. They can work either in outdoor agriculture environments or indoors working with hydroponic production systems or in greenhouses
VIDEO: The Tiny RAS With Massive Impact Potential
Seawater Cubes has developed a unique RAS designed to produce nearly 8 tonnes of fish from units made from four shipping containers and has recently moved from the pilot to the commercial phase
VIDEO: China-Shipping Container Farm
A single container is as productive as a traditional pond that covers 0.13 hectares." According to Chen, container fish farming uses 95 percent less water and 50 percent less human labor than traditional fish farming
CANADA: VIDEO - Nipissing First Nation Greenhouse Sprouts Into Early Success
Mnogin Greenhouse is made up of four trailers. Two of them are already up and running with vertical row-on-row growing of different lettuces and herbs. A third trailer will be launching soon for more produce growing, while the last trailer is set up for packaging and distribution
USA - UTAH - VIDEO: Cedar Valley High School Introduced Vertical Farming To Students
Cedar Valley High School students have received a hands-on learning opportunity to work with and study in a closed container, hydroponic garden experience called Freight Farm. Vertical farming may just be the way of the future. At Cedar Valley High School, thanks to a significant grant from Meta (formerly Facebook), ecology students will learn about vertical farming with a shipping container specially designed for low-water, high-efficiency farming
VIDEO: Food Bank To Grow Produce With New Freight Farm
The freight farm is coming from a Boston-based company. Organizers hope it will reduce the food bank’s reliance on donations.
USA - ALABAMA - VIDEO: Chickasaw City Schools Receives Hydroponic Container For Agriculture Program
It works by using a shipping container like this to grow the vegetables. There’s no soil, just water. And it’s inside, which will keep crops safe from the weather. (WALA)
Hydroponics Bringing The Farm To Denver With New Market
Lemon basil so fresh it tastes like Froot Loops, chocolate mint, orange thyme, and 49 other plant varieties all grown from indoor vertical towers. This is just the start for Farm and Market, the new market and restaurant opening up in RiNo in mid-September
VIDEO: Meet Gabe Bialkowski of Ellicottville Greens Indoor Container Farms
Gabe Bialkowski of Ellicottville Greens has 37 container farms with vertical grow racks producing thousands of heads of lettuce a week.
One Business, Three Farms: Cubic Acres Farm Sells To Chef's On Long Island, New York
We speak with Ryan McGann, the entrepreneur behind Cubic Acres Farm on Long Island and the owner of not one, not two, but three Freight Farms
VIDEO: Local Family Opens First of Its Kind Farm
Their hydroponics farm uses vertically what would have been the horizontal equivalent of three acres of farmland and feeds the water and nutrients through a pipe
VIDEO: Urban Bounty Farms Shipping Container Growing Helping Vets
One metro farming business is using a small space to make a big difference for local military veterans. Urban Bounty Farms uses creative ways to grow food inside. FOX4 first told you about their 6,000-square-foot East Bottoms location in April
Shipping Container Farms: Advancing Vertical Farming And Hydroponics
Dave Harris, Freight Farms’ Director of Crop R&D, shares his expertise in the world of vertical farming in the video
Urban Farming Startup Square Roots Abruptly Shutters Shepherdsville, Ky. Facility
Co-founded by Kimbal Musk, the brother of Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Square Roots grabbed headlines for its model of refurbishing shipping containers into vertical farms that use artificial light and a controlled environment to grow greens like basil, cilantro, and parsley
Ag Weekly: When A Farm Isn’t A Farm
Believe it or not, there’s three acres of produce growing in a parking lot in Lyons Falls. They’re inside a 500-foot shipping container. “Humblebee Farms is classified as a vertical hydroponic farm and we grow lettuce, leafy greens, vegetables, edible flowers,” owner Brandon Cunningham said
USA - WISCONSIN - VIDEO: Square Roots Kenosha Uses New Farming Techniques To Reduce Food Deserts
Don't let its compact size fool you -- this farm is putting out a lot of produce. Walking through the Square Roots facility in Kenosha only takes a minute or two – it’s 20 shipping containers stacked on top of each other