
News About Farming in Shipping Containers & Limited Indoor Spaces
USA - IOWA: Tapestry Farms Hosting Spring Fling Benefit In Bettendorf
Tapestry Farms utilizes a shipping container to implement hydroponic (or vertical) farming. It uses small spaces to maximize produce production while using minimal water or energy resources. All in all, it's a more sustainable way to grow fresh produce year-round.
USA - RHODE ISLAND: Cumberland High School Grows Its Own Greens For School Lunches District-Wide
Students in Cumberland Schools need not ask questions when it comes to some of their food served in their cafeteria, because the leafy greens they eat are grown right behind Cumberland High School. A large, green shipping container that contains a garden full of greens inside, sits behind the cafeteria.Installed in 2017 by 'Freight Farm,' a lot of work went into getting it up and running.
Container Farm on Campus | Inside California Education
Tour a hydroponic farm inside a shipping container at a Bay Area school that’s growing the district’s salad greens.
VIDEO - USA - CHICAGO: Students Learn STEM Skills & Give Back To Community
Container farming is growing plants or crops in special shipping containers instead of planting them in the ground and thirteen high school students just harvested the first crop in a container farm in Altgeld Gardens
Worcester, Massachusetts: Leominster Food Programs To Benefit From State Grants
The $5,823 will serve to build a safe storage area for the protective equipment students participating in the program wear when they work in the enclosed environment of the freight farm, said 2GetherWeEat founder Charles Luster
Northern Illinois University Unveils 'Hydropod' Project To Research Nutritious Food Growth
In early December 2023, a 40-foot by 8-foot container was delivered to Northern Illinois University (NIU) behind Anderson Hall. While resembling a standard shipping container, the unit houses a complete hydroponic farming system
USA: Rhode Island - 'Leafy Green Machine' Makes A Comeback, Launching As A Model In Cumberland
Shana DiPetrillo, food service manager at Sodexo, and Rob Mudge, president of the Historic Metcalf Franklin Farm Preservation Association, have spent much of the past two years fixing and tweaking the Freight Farms vertical farm behind the high school.
USA: CHICAGO - Bowen Harvest Container Farm Brings Fresh Produce To Altgeld Gardens
Bowen Harvest, 500-square-foot hydroponic container farm, will bring free fresh produce to Altgeld Gardens, a food desert. Credit: By The Hand Club For Kids
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A Freight Farmers Journey: How this Entrepreneur Launched a Hydroponic Farming Business in St. Louisw ith Amy Martin and Tova Feinberg
USDA Announces Grants For Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production
The Federal funding agency expects to award approximately $6,100,000 through this opportunity. However, the agency retains the discretion to award a larger or lesser amount
City of Las Vegas Hosting First Farmers' Market At Historic Westside Urban Farm
According to city officials, this will be the first of four markets scheduled to be held at the park in 2024
NIU Adds “Hydropod” Vertical Farming System to Edible Campus Project
In early December, a special delivery arrived behind NIU’s Anderson Hall. The 40-foot-by-8-foot box may look like a standard shipping container, but inside you’ll find a complete, self-contained hydroponic farming system
Farm in a Box
High school students from Cleveland suburbs Euclid, Wickliffe, and Mentor are growing crops in a unique environment that teaches them about the future of high-tech farming while offering insight into modern agriculture business.
The Future of Farming: Revolutionizing Agriculture With Intelligent Containers
Freight Farms, a leading provider of intelligent farm containers, has recently upgraded its IoT platform to enhance lighting controls and outlet power management. According to CTO Jake Felser, these improvements have revolutionized farming by allowing even those with limited agricultural experience to become successful farmers
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.
The Only Farm-to-Table University Dining In The State Is At Auburn-Check It Out Now
“Anything we can’t harvest for people, we compost so nothing goes to waste. We apply these nutrients to our plants, and we gather any water condensed out of the air conditioner to go back into the hydroponics system. The only nutrients leaving the Vertical Farms are those inside the plants.”
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
CANADA - Diamond Valley Students Learn Growing Produce
Through the Vertical Farming Initiative at Oilfields School, junior and senior high students grow a variety of herbs and microgreens in a specially-built, 40-foot sea can that has been converted to sustainably grow produce year-round