News About Farming in Shipping Containers & Limited Indoor Spaces
SOUTH AFRICA - Arable Grow’s Container Farms Reach Spar’s Shelves in the Western Cape
Arable Grow is combining hydroponics, climate-controlled environments and renewable energy to create modular urban farms capable of producing fresh produce closer to where consumers live.
Bonaire Project To Test Containerised CEA Under Local Conditions
A containerised controlled-environment agriculture (CEA) system has been christened ahead of its planned deployment to Bonaire, marking the next stage of a project focused on local food production, resource efficiency and decentralised growing.
The Local Mushroom Farm Behind Your Favorite Restaurant Dishes
The first time I visited KC Sullivan, founder of Two River Gourmet Mushrooms, his entire operation fit inside a retrofitted shipping container tucked behind White Chapel Project in Long Branch.
Is Hydroponic Produce Safer During Foodborne Illness Outbreaks?
Inside a shipping container in downtown Raleigh, there is no soil, rain or sunshine. At Nanue Farms, lettuce grows vertically under LED lights. Water mixed with nutrients drips through panels to the plants’ roots, drains into a holding tank and circulates through the system again.
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.
HONG KONG - Shipping Container Farming System in Yuen Long Boosts Fish Yields Threefold
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.
Hydroponics Are a Big Hit at The Detroit Lakes Boys and Girls Club
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.
What Can You Grow in a STEM Garden™
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.
Fork Farms Launches New School Growing Guide to Help Districts Bring Fresh Food, STEM, and Student Engagement Together
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
How Universities Are Using Controlled Environment Agriculture to Prepare the Next Generation of Growers
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.
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.
The Next Animal Feed Disruption Will Arrive in a Container
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.