News About Farming in Shipping Containers & Limited Indoor Spaces

USA; DENVER, COLORADO - DougCo’s Mountain Vista HS Pioneers Freight To Farm Program

(Castle Rock, CO) Five years ago, Mountain Vista High School teacher David Larson applied for and won a grant from Mind Spark Learning and the Mortgage Family Foundation to purchase a repurposed shipping container turned vertical farm.

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Farm On Wheels Brings Hands-On Food Education To Edmonton Classrooms

To most, the farm on wheels would look like a shipping container on the back of a truck. But to Debra Davidson, a professor at the University of Alberta and director of Prairie Urban Farms, it's so much more

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US: Pennsylvania - Methacton High School’s Hydroponic Farm Has Growing Impact On Students, Community

Students at Methacton High School are growing vegetables in an unlikely place – a shipping crate. It’s called a Hydroponic Farm. Inside the shipping crate, plants grow in vertical rows, without soil, using a mineral rich water system

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VIDEO: New Additions to Customer Success at Freight Farms - Spring 2022

This video outlines the major projects our Crop Research, Training, and Support teams have been working on to benefit both new and veteran growers, as well as what we have in store for later in the year

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How Plants Can Help People Grow

Posting as Garden Marcus on TikTok, Mr. Bridgewater, 33, has shown his 653,000 followers how planting a sweet potato vine in a new spot can help it flourish, a reminder that many living things can benefit from a change of scenery

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CSUN To Shorten Distance Between Farm to Table With Freight Farming

California State University, Northridge has launched a new initiative to shorten the distance from farm to table by growing its own produce using a new form of agriculture

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Building Food Sovereignty On Pine Ridge Reservation

Rebel Earth is an experimental farm: a place where new ideas and technologies can be tested and adapted to fit the Lakota culture and the Northern Great Plains ecosystem

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Social Emotional Learning In The Container Farm

Hydroponic container farms are great for growing vegetables. If you’re familiar with Freight Farms, that’s probably not a surprise to you. But beyond fresh produce, container farms offer a space for growth for humans, too

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