This is IDEA San Benito's first hydroponic school farm, which means it grows plants using a water-based nutrient solution rather than soil. "We currently have about 3,000 lettuce heads growing, so it's all in a vertical system, which is very different from just an outdoor horizontal system," Carbajal said

Cottrell oversees three shipping containers retrofitted to grow hydroponic crops and indoor mushrooms. The container units are near the Veterans Community Project at 89th Street and Troost Avenue in Kansas City. The nonprofit project supports 49 nearby tiny homes and other services for military veterans where hopefulness replaces homelessness

Here you will find booklets and guides, short video clips, and templates designed to help you better run your container farm from start to harvest.

Himalaya has partnered with Vertical Crop Consultants, Inc., provider of the Cropbox, to offer indoor agriculture solutions, including container-based farms. The Cropbox was brought to life by Tripp Williamson while managing Williamson Greenhouses, a company his father started over 35 years ago

AirFarm is a portable farm that can grow potatoes and tomatoes without the need for soil and instead utilises hydroponics, small pipes that direct water to the roots of plants

The “living laboratory” the space offers can be used to help teach skills in STEM, the arts, history and more, among other benefits, said Katherine Walsh, the director of the district’s Sustainability, Energy, and Environment Program

The school board initially reviewed Tuesday night’s accepted proposal for a Freight Farms Hydroponics Lab during a presentation by district administrators on Sept. 26. The lab will be located in a self-contained shipping container connected to the high school building

“USD 235 is excited to be the recipient of a hydroponic shipping container farm through a grant awarded to the Kansas Division of Children and Families,” USD 235 Superintendent Vance Eden said.  “It was announced on September 11th, 2023 that Community Green Farms of Pittsburg Kansas would receive just over $1,000,000 to bring seven southeast Kansas counties vertical hydroponic container farms.”

The grow container, made by Freight Farms, was purchased by the school through a generous donation from Meta Platforms Inc. — the parent company of Facebook — which has a data center in Eagle Mountain. Freight Farms containers can be owned by anyone wanting to use one

Tapestry Farms represents a new type of innovative farmer using technology provided by Freight Farms to use very little resources and only 320 sq foot of space to produce up to 6 tons of food annually to provide enough food to feed the people they serve while donating surplus to local pantries thanks to River Bend Food Bank

In 2022, the Altario School added a hydroponic vertical farm to be able to grow fresh produce and teach students about controlled environment agriculture. The idea to add a Growcer farm came from a grandparent of a couple current students, and was a perfect fit to extend their existing agriculture program.

A Freight Farm is a converted shipping container. It is outfitted with LED lights, soilless farming equipment and a small lab area, all housed within a climate-controlled container

Students in a Haverhill YMCA after-school program are growing their own vegetables and herbs. Only they aren't doing it on a plot of land, but instead hydroponically inside a specially designed shipping container called a Freight Farm

This year CT DoAg has up to $1 million to award for projects and an additional $2 million for shipping container farms that are connected to schools through procurement and educational activities. Grant guidance will be announced in the coming weeks

The indoor farm is only the second AODA-compliant farm in Canada and Growcer worked directly with the Rick Hanson Foundation to design the Osiris Access unit

The Growcer Education unit is specifically configured to support the learning goals of youth exploring careers in agriculture, food security, and sustainability

Complete modularity means you can add Osiris® farms to your Farmplex® based on your needs and scale production as your business grows

The new shipping container facility, named ‘Freight Farm,’ was made possible thanks to a grant of more than $178,000 from Green Mountain Energy Sun Club