Students in a Haverhill YMCA after-school program are growing their own vegetables and herbs. Only they aren't doing it on a plot of land, but instead hydroponically inside a specially designed shipping container called a Freight Farm

This year CT DoAg has up to $1 million to award for projects and an additional $2 million for shipping container farms that are connected to schools through procurement and educational activities. Grant guidance will be announced in the coming weeks

The indoor farm is only the second AODA-compliant farm in Canada and Growcer worked directly with the Rick Hanson Foundation to design the Osiris Access unit

The Growcer Education unit is specifically configured to support the learning goals of youth exploring careers in agriculture, food security, and sustainability

Complete modularity means you can add Osiris® farms to your Farmplex® based on your needs and scale production as your business grows

The new shipping container facility, named ‘Freight Farm,’ was made possible thanks to a grant of more than $178,000 from Green Mountain Energy Sun Club

PITTSBURG, Kan. — Community Green Farms (CGF), a non-profit initiative by Pittsburg-based Leafy Green Farms, was awarded $1,052,000 by the Strengthening People and Revitalizing Kansas

“The freight farm aligns with some of the key elements of our sustainability and climate action plan, specifically around grounds management and resource management as it relates to food systems and supports some of our energy goals,” said Suzanne Wood, associate director of sustainability and campus services at UMass Chan

Cedar Valley High School students have received a hands-on learning opportunity to work with and study in a closed container, hydroponic garden experience called Freight Farm.  Vertical farming may just be the way of the future. At Cedar Valley High School, thanks to a significant grant from Meta (formerly Facebook), ecology students will learn about vertical farming with a shipping container specially designed for low-water, high-efficiency farming

Container farming is an innovative farming method with tremendous potential for addressing various challenges, including reducing recidivism rates in correctional facilities. Recidivism, the tendency of individuals to relapse into criminal behavior after release

Students have been using the hydroponic growing technique in the 8-by-40-foot trailer, growing plants using a water-based nutrient solution rather than soil

Food On The Move’s Urban Farm will produce more than 150,000 pounds of fresh produce every year. The nonprofit founded by Tulsa musician Taylor Hanson will give away a portion of the food through monthly Community Food and Resource Festivals and sell the remainder to Oasis Fresh Market and other local vendors

Toward moving the university into the expanding sustainability field, La Sierra, in 2022, began developing a sustainability park complete with an off-grid experimental geodesic dome, greenhouse, and two environmentally-controlled, technologically outfitted shipping containers for Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) developed by Freight Farms, an urban farming company

It works by using a shipping container like this to grow the vegetables. There’s no soil, just water. And it’s inside, which will keep crops safe from the weather. (WALA)

Ceres Greenhouse Solutions has prepared an informative and downloadable PDF that will explore the various federal funding options available to clients looking to start or expand indoor agriculture projects who are seeking funding that they can qualify for and apply towards indoor agriculture costs

These initiatives include a FarmBox hydroponic storage container farm; a student-led leafy greens food service business and hyper-local salad bars featuring produce from local farming partners.

One container arrived in 2021 for use by the university’s Enactus team to grow leafy greens and herbs utilizing hydroponics-based agriculture. Last school year, the team began using the container to provide education in sustainable agriculture and business practices for local at-risk youth

Whilst this container was primarily being used to grow herbs and leafy greens, it could be used to grow potatoes with a deeper tray, or heads of lettuce with a higher space to grow. Although, those would both be less efficient in terms of the usage of space as they would not be able to have as many trays in the container