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.

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.

C Lazy U is using a container farm to broaden its focus on farm-to-table options for guests.

The ranch’s culinary program will soon be growing some of its leafy greens on site in an automated Vertical Hydroponic Farm built by Colorado-based FarmBox Foods.

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.

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.

The container eco-culture system trialed at the Au Tau Fisheries Office in Yuen Long reported a yield three times that of traditional fish ponds after eight months, according to the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD).

The harvest took place after over 100 fish fry were released into the system, which operates primarily within shipping containers.

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.

STEM Garden™ by Babylon Micro-Farms brings the benefits of indoor growing into schools, senior living communities, libraries, community centers, wellness spaces, and shared environments where people gather, learn, and connect.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

🌍 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.

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.

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.

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.