News About Farming in Shipping Containers & Limited Indoor Spaces
USA - TEXAS: The Diamond Eagles Garden at Mean Green Acres is Helping Uinversity NorthTexas Produce Fresh, Hyperlocal Food Year-Round While Advancing Sustainability, Innovation, and Student Success
“The additional growing capacity allowed Mean Green Acres to increase from the equivalent of approximately one acre of conventional farmland to roughly two and a half acres of conventional growing capacity,” Dining Services says.
Canada: Growing Food, Growing Sovereignty: How Tribal Leaders Are Planning Local Food Security on Their Own Terms
Tribal nations and First Nations are taking the foundational steps to reclaim sovereignty over their food systems, community health, and local economies.
USA - CALIFORNIA: Clearing The Air: How Smarter HVAC Systems Are Cutting Energy Costs for Indoor Farms
To evaluate this technology, the project conducted a field demonstration at two indoor container farms at Ann Sobrato High School in Morgan Hill, California.
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Growin’ Up Organic
Most schools stop at "we'd need a grant." There are five other ways to fund a container farm, and one of them probably already fits your calendar. Answer five questions and find out which.
USA: Indiana High School Takes Their Hydroponics System Up a Notch Thanks to USDA Grant
An Indiana school has been growing lettuce using hydroponics, and it's been a hit with salad lovers of all ages. But now a new grant is helping them take their operation to the next level.
Siemens SIMATIC Powers LindenGreen’s Container Farms
LindenGreen has developed vertical farms that bring food production into a controlled and mobile environment. By building the farm inside a container, produce can be grown closer to where it is needed, including in places where conventional agriculture is difficult
Why Growcer Says Canada’s New Tax Rule Could Transform Local Food Supply
Growcer has welcomed the Productivity Mega Deduction announced by Prime Minister Mark Carney on September 15 at the first Canada Investment Summit. The proposed measure would let businesses write off the full cost of a broad range of capital investments in the year they become available for use, including modular farms like Growcer's.
USA - MAINE: Castine Hydroponic Farm Donates 100 Percent of its Produce
A containerized hydroponic farm refers to a self-contained growing system, normally built inside a repurposed shipping container. Plants can grow inside these shipping containers without dirt or sunlight. LED grow lights and nutrient-rich water stand in for sunlight and soil, enabling plants to photosynthesize year-round.
USA - How Plant Science is Taking Root in East St. Louis
Tova Feinberg, the founder of Vertigreens, has spent the past five years developing a vertical hydroponic farming startup. Instead of using acres of soil, she grows lettuce on shelves that she stacks to the ceiling in shipping containers.
CANADA: Growing Mushrooms With AI
Officially founded in Toronto by Christopher Klich and Justin Cheng, the startup joined the University of Waterloo’s Velocity incubator in mid-2023 to scale its AI-driven gourmet mushroom farms in shipping containers.
Bonaire Project To Test Containerised CEA Under Local Conditions
A containerised controlled-environment agriculture (CEA) system has been christened ahead of its planned deployment to Bonaire, marking the next stage of a project focused on local food production, resource efficiency and decentralised growing.
The Local Mushroom Farm Behind Your Favorite Restaurant Dishes
The first time I visited KC Sullivan, founder of Two River Gourmet Mushrooms, his entire operation fit inside a retrofitted shipping container tucked behind White Chapel Project in Long Branch.
Is Hydroponic Produce Safer During Foodborne Illness Outbreaks?
Inside a shipping container in downtown Raleigh, there is no soil, rain or sunshine. At Nanue Farms, lettuce grows vertically under LED lights. Water mixed with nutrients drips through panels to the plants’ roots, drains into a holding tank and circulates through the system again.
Why Buying a Pre-Owned Container Farm Beats Buying New
Every prospective container farmer runs into the same wall: the sticker price. A new turnkey hydroponic container farm is a six-figure purchase before you have harvested a single head of lettuce.
Right-Sized, Not One-Size-Fits-All: AmplifiedAg’s CEO on Serving Research and Commercial CEA Together
AmplifiedAg CEO David Flynn doesn’t see institutional and commercial agriculture as competing priorities — he sees them as two inputs into the same platform. The institutional side alone ranges from USDA research labs to compliant farm programs inside correctional facilities, part of the company’s Growing Justice initiative.
Hancock Health Expands Food is Medicine Program With Hydroponic Garden at Wellness Center
By locating the container within the footprint of Hancock Health’s medical fitness campus, the health system is creating a new model for integrating fresh food access into preventive health, chronic disease management and wellness education.
