JON FRIEDMAN: So we see a lot of communities all around the world who don't have access to fresh local food. And what that means is they don't have a range of crops in their diet. They don't have, ...

Download the PDF of this article. What inspired the idea to create the farm system in a shipping container? We got started around 2009, and at the time there were only rooftop greenhouses coming into ...

From the outside, it resembles any one of the 17 million shipping containers that are currently in use around the world. But step inside and you’re entering a futuristic hydroponic, vertical farm ...

Siene Allen in Kodiak Island, Alaska and Zeina Salama in El Beheira, Egypt grow food in very different climates. Yet step into the perfectly controlled environment of either farm, and their crops ...

This funding will help the hydroponic container farming company expand its customer base and increase reach of its farms to more remote areas and urban centers "These investments from leading AgTech ...

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 ...

INDIANAPOLIS — An unassuming plot of land sits on the east side of Indianapolis on 30th Street. From the outside, it looks like an empty lot with a couple of shipping containers on it. But inside ...

Smart greenhouses — which use monitoring and control systems to optimize growing conditions for plants — are changing ...

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LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — Take a shipping container in the San Fernando Valley, add low-income, at-risk children and teens, and you get – kale? A fruitful partnership between the City of Los Angeles, ...

Monday, April 29, was a very exciting day for HLA and the Purdue Student Farm. Two Freight Farm growing containers and a cooler container were delivered and installed at the Purdue Student Farm. What ...