News About Farming in Shipping Containers & Limited Indoor Spaces
China Unveils Smart Shipboard Farm to Supply Offshore Workers With Fresh Produce
People working in remote locations like the open sea, deep-sea areas and polar regions have long struggled with limited access to fresh vegetables, but are now able to grow and enjoy their own produce.
Notably, a smart farm designed for ship applications made its debut at Marintec China 2025 held in Shanghai in east China this week.
How Elon Musk's Brother Became an Urban "Farmer" and Leads Projects Aimed at Transforming Schools, Cities, and Food Production
Kimbal Musk's journey encompasses school gardens, vertical farms in shipping containers, and educational projects that advocate for local cultivation, healthy consumption, and agriculture as a tool for continuous social transformation.
While Elon Musk dominates global debates about technology and transportation, his younger brother, Kimbal Musk, follows a different path because he sees food as a way to have a direct social impact.
VIDEO: Barbados Government's First Ever indoor Vertical Farming Pilot Coming Online
Objective: To reduce Barbados' 85% dependence on imported food, create a new generation of climate-resilient farmers, and provide a consistent, high-quality local produce supply that is protected from extreme weather events.
The installation uses modular, containerized vertical farms (three units total: two for production, one for nursery/support) equipped with aeroponic systems and energy-efficient LED lighting.
‘Unit Economics Do Not Work Everywhere,’ Growcer CEO on Making Indoor Ag Profitable
Growcer is taking a prudent approach to growth and capital, as the Canadian indoor ag company scales up with the help of Mars Discovery District
Seeds of Change: How Smart Shifts Could Help Strengthen Canada’s Agri-Food Supply Chain
Canada imports as much as 90 per cent of its lettuce, a fact that seems woefully out of step with a Buy Canadian ethos. It’s not just a greens issue — according to tracking from UBC, roughly 60 per cent of the vegetables and 80 per cent of the fruit consumed in the country comes from elsewhere. Most of us are hoping to change this reality: a survey by KPMG in February found that 93 per cent of Canadians prefer locally grown produce.
NEW YORK CITY: Sponsored Love: Shipping Containers In Harlem Are More Than Just Steel Boxes
Shipping containers are popping up across Harlem in ways that go far beyond their industrial past.
They’re growing food, cleaning up streets, inspiring urban design, and reshaping how Harlem thinks about space and sustainability. Here is how used containers in New York are repurposed for a new life in Harlem.
Container Farm Sprouts Hope For Guam's Food Security Woes
A 40-foot shipping container in Dededo is growing what its operators believe could help solve Guam’s food security challenges: fresh lettuce harvested hours before reaching consumers’ tables and sold well below imported prices.
Sunny Grow Inc., which began operations in March, represents Guam’s latest venture into vertical farming. Earlier efforts struggled with high electricity costs and logistics, but Vice President Yi Yuan believes their approach can succeed where others failed.
Vertical Farming Takes Root in Arkansas With Open House Event
Eudora, Ark. (KATV) — 180 Pipe, a leader in vertical farming systems, is hosting an open house and technology demonstration on Oct. 14, 2025, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 800 Grant 83 in Sheridan, Ark.
The event, co-hosted by Founder Luigi Campos and Eudora Mayor Tomeka Butler, invites the public, media, and Arkansas agriculture leaders to explore how communities can grow fresh, nutrient-rich food regardless of climate or available land.

