News About Farming in Shipping Containers & Limited Indoor Spaces
VIDEO: Food Bank To Grow Produce With New Freight Farm
The freight farm is coming from a Boston-based company. Organizers hope it will reduce the food bank’s reliance on donations.
USA - ALABAMA - VIDEO: Chickasaw City Schools Receives Hydroponic Container For Agriculture Program
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)
Hydroponics Bringing The Farm To Denver With New Market
Lemon basil so fresh it tastes like Froot Loops, chocolate mint, orange thyme, and 49 other plant varieties all grown from indoor vertical towers. This is just the start for Farm and Market, the new market and restaurant opening up in RiNo in mid-September
VIDEO: Meet Gabe Bialkowski of Ellicottville Greens Indoor Container Farms
Gabe Bialkowski of Ellicottville Greens has 37 container farms with vertical grow racks producing thousands of heads of lettuce a week.
One Business, Three Farms: Cubic Acres Farm Sells To Chef's On Long Island, New York
We speak with Ryan McGann, the entrepreneur behind Cubic Acres Farm on Long Island and the owner of not one, not two, but three Freight Farms
VIDEO: Local Family Opens First of Its Kind Farm
Their hydroponics farm uses vertically what would have been the horizontal equivalent of three acres of farmland and feeds the water and nutrients through a pipe
VIDEO: Urban Bounty Farms Shipping Container Growing Helping Vets
One metro farming business is using a small space to make a big difference for local military veterans. Urban Bounty Farms uses creative ways to grow food inside. FOX4 first told you about their 6,000-square-foot East Bottoms location in April
Shipping Container Farms: Advancing Vertical Farming And Hydroponics
Dave Harris, Freight Farms’ Director of Crop R&D, shares his expertise in the world of vertical farming in the video
Urban Farming Startup Square Roots Abruptly Shutters Shepherdsville, Ky. Facility
Co-founded by Kimbal Musk, the brother of Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Square Roots grabbed headlines for its model of refurbishing shipping containers into vertical farms that use artificial light and a controlled environment to grow greens like basil, cilantro, and parsley
Ag Weekly: When A Farm Isn’t A Farm
Believe it or not, there’s three acres of produce growing in a parking lot in Lyons Falls. They’re inside a 500-foot shipping container. “Humblebee Farms is classified as a vertical hydroponic farm and we grow lettuce, leafy greens, vegetables, edible flowers,” owner Brandon Cunningham said
USA - WISCONSIN - VIDEO: Square Roots Kenosha Uses New Farming Techniques To Reduce Food Deserts
Don't let its compact size fool you -- this farm is putting out a lot of produce. Walking through the Square Roots facility in Kenosha only takes a minute or two – it’s 20 shipping containers stacked on top of each other
VIDEO: NEW YORK - South Bronx School Changing The Way Kids Eat | Politics Nation | MSNBC
Lower-income kids are more than twice as likely to be obese than higher-income kids. One school in the South Bronx is working to turn things around
What's The ROI on Vertical Farming?
When it comes to produce, especially leafy greens, a small-sized product isn’t very marketable. A yield is the total number of greens you grow by unit, but this number can also be massaged to look more favorable or less favorable
VIDEO: ‘Seasons Don’t Matter’: How Hydroponic Farmers Are Cultivating Crops Texas Normally Wouldn’t See In The Summer
Steans said in his repurposed shipping container, where plants are growing vertically out of the wall linings, that he’s got enough crops to take up three to four acres of a typical farm
VIDEO: USA - Pennsylvania - Montgomery County Students Learn Valuable Skills From Hydroponic Farm
The dream came true, and now the students are learning about the importance of sustainable farming and even picking up some business skills along the way. The 400-square-foot container can produce about two acres of vegetables
VIDEO: New Indoor Farm Opens In Shepherdsville, Kentucky
Quality, efficiency, and sustainability are a few words that stand out regarding the process of Shepherdsville’s new indoor farm, Square Roots
VIDEO: USA - Denver Restaurant Using Shipping Container To Grow Fresh Greens
Using vertical hydroponics and a fraction of the water used in traditional farming, Vital Roots in north Denver grows lettuces and herbs inside a shipping container
VIDEO: USA - King Tides Farms - Charleston, South Carolina
They grow artisanal lettuces, unusual leafy greens, exotic herbs, and all varieties of microgreens. Each plant can be traced from seeding to eating and is delivered within hours of harvesting

