News About Farming in Shipping Containers & Limited Indoor Spaces

VIDEO: Colorado Springs Zoo Growing Food In Shipping Containers

Cheyenne Mountain Zoo staff set up a hydroponic farm inside shipping containers. Their goal is to grow more than half of the lettuce they need for their animals

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VIDEO: Farm Highlight: Diversifying The Dairy Farm

Audrey and Dominic run a small dairy and mixed grain farm near Sherbrooke, Quebec. Recently, they decided to take on a new adventure and expand their 40-cow operation with a 40-foot container farm

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VIDEO: Plant Scientist Harvests Success In An Antarctic Greenhouse

Bunchek spent the last year living and working with fellow researchers at the remote German Neumayer III Station, operated by the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI)

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VIDEO: Vertical Farming: The Agricultural Revolution

Growing of agricultural or horticultural crops in vertical stacked layers inside a building under fully controlled-environment conditions, including climate, lighting and soilless farming techniques as hydroponics

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VIDEO: Container-Grown Vertical Roots’ Holiday Packaging, Charitable Giving A Sign of The Times

Charleston, S.C.-based Vertical Roots has redesigned the packaging of its hydroponic, large-leaf Living Lettuce heads and salad mixes with festive snowflakes for the month of December only — signaling that a portion of proceeds from all Vertical Roots products sold in December will benefit Feeding America

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VIDEO: Square Roots To Supply Whole Foods In NY, MI

Square Roots is the technology leader in indoor farming. Its mission is to bring local, fresh, real food to people in cities around the world

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USA: SOUTH CAROLINA - VIDEO - Vertical Roots Featured on PBS’ ‘START UP’ Season 9

“Not only is what they’re doing incredibly relevant to the agricultural issues happening around the country, but I think Vertical Roots is going to become increasingly important in the future,” he added. “And today.”

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VIDEO: 5 Vertical Farm Robots & Systems | Future of Farming

Vertical farming is the future. It will ensure access to healthy food for optimum nutrition while protecting environmental factors that will put safeguards in place so that there is no compromise to land, air, and water

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VIDEO: Square Roots And Gordon Food Service Celebrate Opening of New Michigan Indoor Farm; Tobias Peggs And Rich Wolowski Discuss

“This new indoor farm in Michigan means we can grow delicious, local food all year round in responsible ways,” said Tobias Peggs, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Square Roots

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GrowBoxCo Announces Business Expansion, Name Change To Box4Grow

Box4Grow designs and retrofits 10-foot, 20-foot, and 40-foot shipping containers and builds flexible modular grow rooms, warehouses and greenhouses that provide a controlled environment for cultivators regardless of space or climate

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USDA ARS Selects AmplifiedAg As Its First Vertical Farming Platform; Launches CEA Study To Develop New Industry Standards

Agency will utilize AmplifiedAg’s advanced hydroponic container-based vertical farming platform to study crop production, food safety, market quality, and nutrition of produce grown in controlled agriculture environments

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Introducing Farmer Cultivation In Containers, Jakarta KPKP Head: Farmers In Jakarta Don't Have To Be Dirty

He revealed that one container farming unit at the Ragunan Tourism Agro Educational Center, South Jakarta, was the result of the collaboration of the DKI Provincial Government through the KPKP Service and PLN Care

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