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.
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
How On-Site Micro-Farms Improve Nutrition and Engagement in Senior Living
In senior living, food is rarely just about what is on the plate. Meals shape routines. Dining rooms create opportunities for connection. Familiar ingredients can bring back memories. And something as simple as watching fresh herbs grow can give residents a reason to stop, ask questions, and participate.
Fork Farms Featured Farm: Hope Center in Blue Island, Illinois
The organization provides a wide range of resources in the Chicago area, including a food pantry, job training, language instruction, legal guidance, and family support. Its indoor growing program grew out of the food pantry with a simple goal: bring more fresh food to the community.
USA - Broadview Hts, Ohio: BBH School Lunch Programs Integrate Hydroponic Gardens to Provide Locally Sourced Foods
The Flex Farm hydroponic growing systems are manufactured by Fork Farms, which provides detailed instructions on their usage.
Lettuce harvested in the system is the most commonly used crop in school lunch programs.
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.
Two Black Teens Launch Mobile Farm to Inspire the Next Generation of Agriculture Enthusiasts
The Mobile Farm is designed as a working classroom on wheels. Participants will be able to see live plants growing in vertical systems, understand how water and nutrients move through modern growing equipment, learn how seeds become mature plants, and experience the complete growing process from germination through harvest.
Featured Farm: Christians United Outreach Center of Lee County | Sanford, North Carolina
Since 2022, four volunteers have been operating four Flex Farm units as part of the organization’s work to provide food to neighbors in need. By rotating harvests across the farms, the team is able to harvest approximately every two weeks, growing multiple varieties of lettuce along with herbs including cilantro, dill, and basil.
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.
USA - A Farm in Panther Dining Hall? Hydroponic Gardens Grow Fresh Produce at Florida Tech
Babylon Micro-Farms is a company founded at the University of Virginia that specializes in creating and distributing hydroponic systems for growing plants indoors. The farms, as displayed at Florida Tech, used controlled lighting, water and nutrients to grow plants without soil.
Arkansas Colleges of Health Education Brings Hands-On Learning to Area Classrooms Through Hydroponic Gardens
The Arkansas Colleges of Health Education Research Institute Health & Wellness Center expanded its hydroponic gardening efforts this summer by equipping area teachers with the tools and knowledge to bring hydroponics directly into their classrooms.
"The Crop Plan is Determined by the Customer, Not by a Guess We Made Months Earlier"
Harvest London and Crate to Plate are trialling a platform designed to plan crop production from confirmed customer orders instead of forecasts, under a DEFRA-funded ADOPT project led by InnoPhyte Consulting. The deployment runs across Harvest London's Canada Water and Lea Bridge facilities and Crate to Plate's site in Canary Wharf.
Featured Farm: Meadowbrook Garden Club | Spring Valley, California
At Meadowbrook Apartments, growing fresh food is also growing curiosity, confidence, and connection.
Since 2023, the Meadowbrook Garden Club has been growing with a Flex Farm alongside the Heaven’s Windows team.
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.
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.
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.
