News About Farming in Shipping Containers & Limited Indoor Spaces
Why Buying a Pre-Owned Container Farm Beats Buying New
Every prospective container farmer runs into the same wall: the sticker price. A new turnkey hydroponic container farm is a six-figure purchase before you have harvested a single head of lettuce.
Right-Sized, Not One-Size-Fits-All: AmplifiedAg’s CEO on Serving Research and Commercial CEA Together
AmplifiedAg CEO David Flynn doesn’t see institutional and commercial agriculture as competing priorities — he sees them as two inputs into the same platform. The institutional side alone ranges from USDA research labs to compliant farm programs inside correctional facilities, part of the company’s Growing Justice initiative.
Hancock Health Expands Food is Medicine Program With Hydroponic Garden at Wellness Center
By locating the container within the footprint of Hancock Health’s medical fitness campus, the health system is creating a new model for integrating fresh food access into preventive health, chronic disease management and wellness education.
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.
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.
Growing Smarter Farmers: University, Neighborhoods Localize Climate Science
Plantation Park Heights, founded in 2014, is an urban farm sprawling across several blocks in Baltimore’s Greenspring and Central Park Heights neighborhoods, where greenhouses and gardens seem to sprout from every vacant lot.
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.
With Growtainer® Containers, It’s Possible To Grow Almost Anything, Almost Anywhere.
The two climate-controlled containers measure 40 feet in length where DiveDWN can grow up to 36,000 heads of lettuce annually in colder temperatures and when warmer, crops like tomatoes can thrive.
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.
From Single Unit to Modular Farm Infrastructure 🌱
Not every indoor farming project needs to begin at full scale.
For some growers, a single BioCube Container is the right place to start. It offers a focused environment for one crop, one production model, and a clearly defined output..
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.
How Much Does it Really Cost to Feed a High-Producing Dairy Cow In The Middle East?
Answering this question requires looking beyond the price per kilogram of alfalfa, hay or concentrate. Behind every litre of milk produced in the region, there is a cost structure shaped by raw materials, transport, storage, water availability, forage quality, supplier stability and the farm’s real ability to control its own feeding strategy.
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.
USA - CHICAGO: Ford Heights, a Cook County Food Desert, Gets a High-Tech Hydroponic Farm
.The town will now be able to grow fresh produce from a shipping container.
Ford Heights native Derek Drake runs a hydroponic farm company called Ditto Foods. He can make a 320 square foot trailer as productive as a three-acre farm.