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 ...

After successfully raising over £16,000 through aKickstarter campaign, the team constructed their GrowUp Box from a reused shipping container that was modified to include a rooftop greenhouse.

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.

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 ...