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.

The Beverly Hills Unified School District Board of Education voted in August to approve the two-year pilot program, reinforcing the district’s commitment to innovation, wellness and environmental responsibility.

Fifth-grade students at Madison Elementary are digging into science and sustainability through a year-long indoor gardening and composting STEM project that allows them to grow their own food from start to finish.

The Holmdel Foundation for Educational Excellence (HFEE) held a ceremonial ribbon-cutting to officially open a new Aquaponics Learning Lab at Holmdel High School in Holmdel, New Jersey.

Fresh, locally grown food has long been a priority for the RSU 14 nutrition program. But Maine’s long, harsh winters typically bring the growing season for leafy vegetables to a halt. Now, thanks to the rising popularity of hydroponic gardening, RSU 14 can keep fresh produce growing year-round with a portable, vertical indoor garden system.

The Villages Charter School has integrated a controlled-climate Hydroponic Fodder Farm into its curriculum to modernize agricultural education.

This modular system, designed and manufactured by FarmBox Foods, provides students with direct exposure to high-tech feed production methods.

The draft legislation sets aside 10% of a new local food purchasing program specifically for Tribes to purchase local food and directs agricultural conservation programs to recognize traditional ecological knowledge. The only hurdle is that the passing of the bill might be delayed for more than a year due to political theatre so we wouldn't hold our breath.

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.

A hydroponic classroom container farm is a 40-foot shipping container retrofitted with lighting, irrigation systems, nutrient dosing equipment, and environmental sensors to create a fully controlled indoor growing space.

Unlike traditional school gardens, these systems operate year-round and allow students to manage every variable affecting plant growth.

More than a decade ago, two students at the University of Ottawa, Alida Burke and Corey Ellis, were on a school trip to Nunavut when they got a firsthand look at food insecurity.

Two students looked around for a solution, but seeing none, decided to create one themselves. In 2016, they developed a modular, indoor farm in a shipping container. they called their new venture Growcer.

As southern Nevada works to strengthen food security amid an arid climate and limited arable land, University of Nevada, Reno Extension is offering an educational certificate series on indoor vertical farming, or hydroponics, to equip commercial growers, home gardeners, Master Gardener volunteers and educators with research-based expertise in soil-free vegetable farming.

In parallel with its product expansion, FullCircle26 is collaborating with The MARM Farm, a Milwaukee-based nonprofit organization focused on education, conservation, and food accessibility.

The collaboration centers on the development of a 40-foot container-based growing unit that combines hydroponic production with mushroom cultivation.

University City High School is in the center of the sprawl in and around St. Louis — about as insulated as it could be from the wide swaths of farmland outside the city.

Tucked in the back of the school, between the gymnasium and the swimming facility, is a shipping container that contains the school’s new hydroponic farm.

Ray Fankhauser, sustainability lead at the school, was one of the people behind entering the school for the award.

Fankhauser said that with the level of interest from the students to work the garden, they needed something bigger, so they looked at developing a modular hydroponic farm using Canadian technology called Growcer.

Some Mayfield City Schools students are experiencing the satisfaction of having the fruits (or in this case the lettuce) of their classroom efforts result in a real-life application -- helping to feed their fellow students.

Hawaiʻi Department of Education is rolling out a new process that encourages small farm micropurchases of locally grown produce for school meals throughout the state in an effort to advance farm-to-school initiatives.

Just a few miles from our Hamilton office sits an unexpected hub of innovation: a fully operational hydroponic farm tucked inside a refurbished shipping container at the Robbinsville Municipal Complex.

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.