Innovators within the produce industry are breaking the boundaries of food production — by growing crops not in fields, but in recycled shipping containers. This modern twist on farming is designed to ...
Even near some of the busiest cities in the United States, nearly 54 million people have a tough time accessing fresh and healthy food, according to the United States Department of Agriculture. One ...
In 2016, Kimbal Musk cofounded Square Roots, an accelerator that teaches farmers how to raise crops with LED lighting in climate-controlled shipping containers. He quickly received more than 500 ...
John Lekic is the chef and owner of Farmers & Chefs in Poughkeepsie and vertically grows his own produce for his restaurant in a shipping container on site. He came across the concept of shipping ...
While it’ll likely take a few years to catch on, shipping container aeroponic farming could be coming to a restaurant near you. Share Farm-to-table may have worked its way into our everyday vocabulary ...
Near the entrance of a 40-foot container farm installed at New Mexico State University’s Grants campus, dozens of 4-day-old kale plants lined a horizontal nursery bed, sprouting at various lengths in ...
BOSTON >> Shipping containers have been turned into housing, art, even playgrounds. Now, a Boston company is recycling them into high-tech mobile farms as part of a new wave of companies hoping to ...
A new project in urban agriculture is launching this week in western Massachusetts. Community farmers and college students will grow produce inside two shipping containers that have been outfitted ...
CHARLESTON, SC (WCSC) - The Citadel's first harvest was ready from its container farm on Friday. It's the college's Sustainability Project, part of The Zucker Family School of Education's STEM Center ...
Dustin Lang walks between the rows that will eventually be planted with lettuce for the hydroponic vertical garden. LED lights cast blue and red light onto the plants for optimal growth. (Heidi ...
Arthur Lee, owner of MoVertical Farm, prepares to deliver his fish to market at his farm in Hong Kong's rural Yuen Long, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020. After a career making the shipping containers that ...
A 320-square-foot container just north of downtown Houston is not where you would expect to find a farm, but that's exactly where is located at. Acre in a Box consists of two shipping containers ...