Shipping container farming is climate-controlled, powered by LED lights instead of the sun and can produce high yield in a small space. But humidity and start-up infrastructure costs can be ...

Meanwhile, Boston-based Freight Farms offers a hydroponic “farm in a box,” dubbed the Leafy Green Machine, built entirely inside a single 40-foot shipping container.

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 ...

Farm-to-table may have worked its way into our everyday vocabulary, but shipping container-to-table could be the way of the future — at least if one South Carolina restaurant's business model ...

The farm operates with volunteers, and it was one volunteer who owns restaurants in New York City that introduced them to the concept of Freight Farms, a hydroponic container farm.

The 40-foot, almost 8-ton shipping container houses an indoor pod farm that uses hydroponic farming techniques that don't require soil or pesticides.

Groton — Rows of lettuce growing in a hydroponic system in a shipping container outside the school district's administration building will help provide students and the community with fresh food ...

Elliott County High School’s container farm includes space to grow up to 2,760 seedlings and 2,960 mature plants, all at once in a nutrient film technique (NFT) system.

With Tony's Farm, international architecture studio Playze has done its bit for the recycled-shipping-container-as-architecture movement. The organic farm's new building is toward the more ...