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Take a tour of this stunning 2-story shipping container home! With a 40ft and 20ft container, it’s the perfect blend of ...
In cities across the U.S., repurposed shipping containers are popping up in the most unexpected places, like on sidewalks, in ...
On the tip of the Northern Peninsula, fresh leafy greens are being grown inside a shipping container and then being put on ...
The CBC’s Colleen Connors tours the unlikely growing site — a storage container sitting along the side of a road. Felicia Hillier, manager of SABRI Farms, explains how more sites like this could mean ...
Hong Kong-listed Seacon Shipping has ordered a new electric container ship for freight and seafarer training operations. UK broker Clarksons lists the 406-teu, battery-powered feeder unit as set for ...
The technology that Nanue’s Farm uses was created by Boston based company, Freight Farms. Each container has thousands of LED grow lights, temperature controls and uses between five and ten gallons of ...
Some would say Seattle’s food scene is at its best when the impact stretches beyond the immediate benefits of nourishment and taste. That’s certainly the case at Cherry Street Farm, where Hip Hop is ...
Edmund Chilaka, personal communication, 2023 Levinson, M. (2006). The box: How the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger. Princeton University Press.
Bryan Hurlburt, left, commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Agriculture, speaks while in the new hydroponic shipping container farm, after a ribbon cutting ceremony at the Groton Public ...
A 320-square-foot container on St. Helena Farm can grow the equivalent of two acres of produce at a time. The hydroponic farm was begun by Selma Davis in March 2023. Jessica Wade/Staff ...
Photo courtesy of Village Hydroponics Not only does the shipping container model help feed more people — but it’s a smart and strategic way to farm in a changing climate. Seedlings stay in the nursery ...
Nestled between two train cars-turned-restaurants on the other side of town, Henry Krull walks inside his shipping container farm. He points to a wall that's growing hundreds of bunches of butter ...