News About Farming in Shipping Containers & Limited Indoor Spaces
USA - FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA: Urban Farmer Works to Harvest Success With Her Microgreens/Herb Business
As a high school student, Morgan Christl discovered the positive effects that microgreens had on her health. This helped spark a business that has morphed into her urban farm, Earth-to-Jar Botanicals.
Worth a Thousand Words: Feed the People
Inside a climate-controlled shipping container, rows of fresh lettuce grow under LED lights. For Marcus Carpenter ’00, the crop represents more than a novel way to grow food. He sees it as part of a larger effort to solve a problem he believes the American food system has overlooked.
SOUTH AFRICA - Arable Grow’s Container Farms Reach Spar’s Shelves in the Western Cape
Arable Grow is combining hydroponics, climate-controlled environments and renewable energy to create modular urban farms capable of producing fresh produce closer to where consumers live.
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.
Hydroponic Grower Vertigreens Booms as Lettuce Becomes a Big Concern
While the lettuce-driven cyclospora outbreak has generally been bad for businesses across the nation—including some St. Louis chefs who’ve been forced to take extra precautions—the outbreak has come with an upside for one St. Louis-area startup.
USA: WISCONSIN - Middle School Students in Kaukauna Gets Hands‑On With Food Production
The hydroponic system allows students to follow crops from seed to harvest in a controlled environment, turning abstract lessons about plant biology, sustainability and food production into something tangible. Mees said the system has sparked new ideas for lessons that tie together science, math and problem‑solving while helping students better understand where food comes from.
USA - South Carolina: SCDC To Launch Nation’s First Vertical Farm Inside a U.S. Prison
The South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC), in partnership with Impact Justice and AmplifiedAg, is set to launch the first vertical farm inside a U.S. prison at the Camille Graham women’s facility in Columbia.
Nova Scotia Groups Come Together To Teach Hydroponic Farming
Inside a converted shipping container in Westphal, N.S., the Akoma Hydroponic Garden is growing fresh basil and teaching young people about horticulture.
For African Heritage Month, Akoma Holdings and EduHaus partnered together to teach and employ Black Nova Scotians in hydroponic farming.
BRITISH COLUMBIA: Huu-ay-aht Looks to Grow Fresh Produce in Anacla Through Vertical System
Living in a small, remote community can make it hard to get fresh fruit and vegetables in a pinch. Add to that road closures due to wildfires or storms, making access to grocery stores tough for residents of Anacla and Bamfield.
It also makes bringing in fresh produce equally difficult for the local grocer.
CANADA: Fresh Greens at -36°C: A Container Farm in the High Arctic
In Alert, Nunavut — the northernmost continuously inhabited place on Earth, just 817 km from the North Pole — winter brings 24-hour darkness and temperatures below -30°C. Fresh food is typically flown in, but flights are often delayed for weeks, leaving residents without produce.
To reduce this dependency, Molly Farquhar launched The C.A.N. (Continuous Alert Nourishment) — a hydroponic vertical farm built inside a renovated shipping container.
USA - WYOMING: From Schoolhouse to Greenhouse: Urban Farm Takes Root in North Casper
After North Casper Elementary School closed its doors, the Casper Housing Authority bought the building and made a promise to the school district: to turn it into something positive.
That's how Urban Thistle Farm was born, and its mission is to alleviate the food desert in North Casper.
USA - MISSISSIPPI: USM and Lynn Meadows Discovery Center to Celebrate Ribbon Cutting of New Aquaponics Education Exhibit
Aquaponics in Action Exhibit Brings Sustainable Food Systems Education to Families
As part of MAD’s commitment to community engagement and workforce development, Southern Miss, Symbiotic LLC, the GULF BLUE Initiative and LMDC have partnered to create a public aquaponics education exhibit housed in a retrofitted shipping container.
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.