How to grow a salad in a very large box. Steve McLeod and Lori Medlin don’t take credit for the idea of aquaponic shipping containers. McLeod remembers hearing about them 30 years ago. “There ...

Last week London-based GrowUp unveiled their small urban farm, which produces sustainable vegetables and fish through vertical gardening and aquaponics. After successfully raising over £16,000 ...

Following a £16,500 Kickstarter campaign, they first converted a shipping container into a mini commercial aquaponics farm called GrowUp Box, perched on the rooftop of an east London shopping centre.

In addition to expansion, the Teaching Garden is in the process of building a solar-powered aquaponics system designed by Harbor School students and housed inside a shipping container.

I co-founded GrowUp Urban Farms with my business partner Kate Hofman in May 2013. Our vision is to contribute to a more sustainable food system using aquaponics – a combination of aquaculture ...

Inside one 40-foot container, trays of butter lettuce glow brightly under LED lights. Another container grows baby greens. The startup, Local Roots Farms, began as a producer, selling produce to ...

The two shipping containers, which are recycled and repurposed, are stacked and connected by a series of pipes. The water feeds plants growing in the top container which includes everything from ...

Shipping containers may seem like a sustainable construction material, but are they actually eco-friendly? Many people don't want a heavily-used container — and the energy bills are through the ...

People’s heads aren’t the only places you can live rent-free. An enterprising Scottish woman is bypassing extortionate housing costs by living rent-free in a shipping container — where her ...