News About Farming in Shipping Containers & Limited Indoor Spaces
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.
Growing Good: Steel Shells Incubate Incredibly Productive Microfarms
The hydroponic farm is designed by Growcer, an Ottawa-based company that was initially founded in response to high food costs in northern communities. It’s a serious need — according to Statistics Canada, 60% of Nunavut (Canada’s northernmost territory) residents are food insecure, and food prices have risen by 22% (as opposed to 12% across the rest of the country) in recent years.
Hydroponics Are a Big Hit at The Detroit Lakes Boys and Girls Club
What began as a singular machine in 2021 has blossomed into a state-of-the-art hydroponics hub operated by the Boys and Girls Club of Detroit Lakes.
Fork Farms Launches New School Growing Guide to Help Districts Bring Fresh Food, STEM, and Student Engagement Together
When schools grow food on-site, they're creating opportunities for students to connect with where food comes from, supporting healthier meals, and turning classrooms into living laboratories.”
— Alex Tyink, CEO of Fork Farms
How Universities Are Using Controlled Environment Agriculture to Prepare the Next Generation of Growers
As agriculture adapts to climate change, resource constraints, and growing food demand, universities are rethinking how they prepare students for careers in the industry. While traditional fieldwork remains valuable, it no longer reflects the technologies transforming commercial food production.
Rocky View County Farm Uses Hydroponics to Grow Fresh Greens Year-Round
With Growcers’ virtual tour it shows the farm is the size of a large shipping container. Inside are left and right plant reservoirs, a work and seeding station, nutrient monitors, C02 sensors, thermostat, HVAC system, environmental sensors, LED lights and more.
The Next Animal Feed Disruption Will Arrive in a Container
On 3 August, shipping data recorded only six vessels crossing the Strait of Hormuz. Three were bulk carriers.
The number may change tomorrow. The vulnerability will not.
More than 70% of the foodstuffs imported by GCC countries normally pass through the Strait of Hormuz.
Mamdani Admin To Turn Felons Into Gourmet-Food Producers for ‘Farm-to-Table’ Dining at NYC Jails
The New York City Correction Department has awarded a nearly $230,000 annual contract to a Colorado-based firm, FarmBox Foods, to teach inmates — or “persons in custody” — at Rikers Island and other municipal jails how to “vertical” farm in an urban setting.
Exciting News From StartLife Alumnus Hippotainer
🌍 This milestone marks an important chapter in Hippotainer's journey to develop innovative and sustainable solutions for the future of agriculture. After the christening, the container will set sail for its next adventure in Bonaire, where it will play a vital role in contributing to local food security.
The Hidden Cost of Importing 100% of Your Livestock Feed
Many livestock businesses analyse milk yield, daily weight gain, feed conversion and veterinary costs with great precision, yet continue to accept one of their largest financial dependencies as unavoidable: purchasing almost everything their animals consume from external suppliers.
How Can Food Banks Use Container Farms to Grow Fresh Food Year-Round?
Container farms for food banks make it possible to grow fresh produce indoors, every day of the year, regardless of season or weather. A container farm is a repurposed shipping container fitted with hydroponic growing systems, LED lighting, and climate control, and it lets a food bank become a producer of fresh food rather than only a distributor of it.
State Grants Build Farm-To-Pantry Pipeline
There’s a difference between being fed and being nourished. It took a shipping container, a delivery van, three state grants, and the coordination of partners who refuse to accept that fresh food is a luxury — but last Monday, that difference got a little smaller for our neighbors experiencing food insecurity.
Advancing Food Production Capabilities in Deep Space While Supporting Food Security in Nunavut
The Growcer Inc. will work with Arctic Fresh Group of Companies, an Inuit-owned enterprise in Nunavut, to co-develop a concept for a deployable Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) unit.
A Farm in Charlotte Grows Indoors and Offers Options as Cyclosporiasis Cases Go Up
Adrina Farms is a hydroponic farm. They grow in water instead of in soil, and then nutrients get added to the plant in a controlled environment. It’s right in the middle of the City of Charlotte at Innovation Barn, and they grow lettuce vertically.
CANADA: The Growcer Brings Greens to More Consumers
The Growcer, an Ottawa-based company, allows farmers and others needing fresh vegetables to grow hydroponically in small, self-contained, universal units.
The company was founded in 2016.
Qatar Startup Grows Hydroponics For a Hotter, Drier Future
What began as a simple family gardening activity during the Covid-19 pandemic has evolved into a structured agricultural enterprise, accountant-turned-entrepreneur Jeacim Francis Adaya told Gulf Times in an exclusive interview.
Innovation in a Changing Ag Economy Highlighted at Midwest Agriculture Summit
Fork Farms, an indoor hydroponic farming company based in Green Bay, Wisconsin, helps people grow their own food. Company founder and CEO Alex Tyink believes in the importance of building resiliency and access to fresh produce in communities.
“The whole purpose behind what we're doing is we're trying to get fresh food more within reach to everybody everywhere,” he said.
USA - MISSOURI: Local Farms Increase Safety Amid Cyclospora Outbreak
Josh Smith, owner of Neon Greens, outlined the advantages of their closed-environment agriculture. “We’re able to control the sun which are our led’s and the water, the best city water. We’re able to add nutrients to that water as you would your home,” Smith said.
The establishment grows three types of lettuce vertically within a thermally efficient shipping container, combining urban farming with a restaurant model off Manchester.