So with Freight Farm’s help, Allen and her partner Gideon Saunders started BrightBox Farms in 2020. Within their new container, Allen and Gideon now grow food year-round.

But container farming in schools and in urban areas isn't going to solve the looming food crisis. Around the world, climate change, the economic hardships of farming and demands for natural foods ...

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, container farming operations are increasingly efficient. A year ago, it was possible to grow about 50 pounds of kale per week in a shipping container, Musk noted.

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.

It’s a hydroponic farm in a shipping container, and its owners hope it could eventually put an end to food deserts, including our biggest one: outer space.

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.

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 ...

A 40-foot shipping container was repurposed into a hydroponic greenhouse in Spokane, Washington, then shipped to Montreal, where a cargo ship has taken it through the St. Lawrence River, around ...

The repurposed shipping container is tucked in a parking lot, behind an office building and warehouse in Woodbridge, Va. From the outside, it might not look that special. But on the inside ...

With the cold weather behind us, now is the time to buy the basic materials to make your container garden come alive: soil and plants, and, of course, containers themselves. They come all types of ...