In Langley, B.C., Easy Harvest Box is redefining farming by cultivating gourmet mushrooms in AI-powered, climate-controlled containers.

Using 95% less water and zero pesticides, this startup’s “farm-in-a-box” model could make sustainable, year-round agriculture possible anywhere—from city lots to northern communities.

Growcer is bringing back Rootcamp, an immersive, in-person training program for hydroponic modular farming.

Having already trained over 100 growers and produced 10 million+ servings of vegetables, Growcer’s bootcamp combines hands-on farm operations with essential business training.

Fisher River Cree Nation (FRCN), in partnership with ADRA Canada and Growcer Corp., and with additional funding from the Latter-Day Saints, is launching a year-round hydroponic farm early this year to tackle food insecurity in northern Manitoba while promoting a sustainable and resilient local food system.

The freight container is not just a teaching tool but also provides fresh produce for students around the district.

Known as a Freight Farm, the container is filled with walls outfitted with equipment to water and nourish hundreds of plants, and lights to help them grow.

Back in June, the school received a new freight farm, which is a converted shipping container made to grow plants.

It was made possible through the Massachusetts FRESH Grant from Mass. Farm to School, and since then, the garden has been thriving.

The Latvian company Carbon Less Future has developed a fully automated vertical growing container for cultivating tree seedlings.

While vertical growing systems are not a new idea in horticulture, until now they have typically been used for strawberries, lettuce, and vegetable seedlings.

Our smart, modular farms are mobile, configurable indoor growing systems that support multiple crop types and growth cycles. Offering flexible, scalable precision growing solutions, Fischer Modular Farms streamline workflows, and ensure hygiene and consistency across every stage. From single container to super farms, Fischer Modular Farms are smart, scalable and seamless...the next generation of CEA in the UAE.

The 320-square-foot space inside a repurposed shipping container that sits in the parking lot of the Office of Sustainability is small and is a far cry from the 200-acre tree and shrub nursery in northern Illinois where Dr. Dave Kopsell, professor of horticulture in the Department of Agriculture, grew up.

Kopsell has been interested in horticulture for as long as he can remember, and today, that interest is taking the shape of the 40-by-8-foot container that houses Illinois State University’s Vertical Farm.

NASA has been a pioneer in the field of indoor farming for decades and collaborates often with outside institutions.

For more than 40 years, Purdue University in Indiana has received funding from and collaborated with NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, California, as part of the agency’s Specialized Center of Research and Training program to explore methods of growing plants under electric light.

Michigan State University researchers are developing more financial resources to help controlled environment growers succeed.

Horticulture economics doctoral student Megan Burritt tells Brownfield, “Everybody is considering, as you’re trying to grow your agricultural commodity entity, should I buy a new tractor or should I invest in a new greenhouse?”

In a shipping container parked next to Macnica’s headquarters in Yokohama, an innovative revolution in Japanese agriculture is taking root.

Inside the 40-foot steel box, 1,800 premium wasabi plants thrive under LED lights, nourished by circulating purified water and monitored by AI-powered sensors.

This isn’t a futuristic concept. It’s a solution to a very real crisis threatening one of Japan’s most iconic flavors.

Businesses are transforming rooftops, courtyards, parking lots, and unused land into working farms, growing their own food to reduce reliance on suppliers and serve fresher meals.

At the JW Marriott Grande Lakes in Orlando, guests are often eating produce grown just steps from where they’re staying.

Farmer-in-residence Leslie Wilber oversees the hotel’s on-site farm, where a wide variety of crops are grown throughout the year.

People working in remote locations like the open sea, deep-sea areas and polar regions have long struggled with limited access to fresh vegetables, but are now able to grow and enjoy their own produce.

Notably, a smart farm designed for ship applications made its debut at Marintec China 2025 held in Shanghai in east China this week.

In 2016, Growcer installed its first modular, vertical farm in Churchill, Man., where food security can be precarious. Growcer’s team trained the local community how to operate and maintain the hydroponic farm that is housed inside what looks like a shipping container where plants grow on stacked shelves under LED lights.

Within weeks, the community saw the cost of vegetables plummet by 50 percent simply because the locally grown produce replaced leafy imports.

Aquaponics in Action Exhibit Brings Sustainable Food Systems Education to Families

As part of MAD’s commitment to community engagement and workforce development, Southern Miss, Symbiotic LLC, the GULF BLUE Initiative and LMDC have partnered to create a public aquaponics education exhibit housed in a retrofitted shipping container.

Growcer is taking a prudent approach to growth and capital, as the Canadian indoor ag company scales up with the help of Mars Discovery District

Summer Street is an organization supporting people with diverse abilities and is participant led. This project to start growing local food was years in the making with goals to:
1) Grow fresh local food to eat
2) Create meaningful employment
3) Grow food to give back to the community

Kimbal Musk's journey encompasses school gardens, vertical farms in shipping containers, and educational projects that advocate for local cultivation, healthy consumption, and agriculture as a tool for continuous social transformation.

While Elon Musk dominates global debates about technology and transportation, his younger brother, Kimbal Musk, follows a different path because he sees food as a way to have a direct social impact.