In this Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015, photo, Freight Farms co-founder Jon Friedman positions a seedling tower under red light, inside a freight container converted into a vegetable garden in Boston. The ...

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Your next serving of fresh greens could come from the back of a shipping container. Tech investor Travis Ally has leased a plot of vacant land at 827 Bergen Street in Crown Heights for an urban farm ...

DENVER (KDVR) — The Colorado Chamber of Commerce named the Vertical Hydroponic Farm manufactured by FarmBox Foods the Coolest Thing Made in Colorado for 2025. The award-winning farm is built inside an ...

BOSTON — Shipping containers have been turned into housing, art, even playgrounds. Now, a Boston company is recycling them into high-tech mobile farms as part of a new wave of companies hoping to ...

Siene Allen in Kodiak Island, Alaska and Zeina Salama in El Beheira, Egypt grow food in very different climates. Yet step into the perfectly controlled environment of either farm, and their crops ...

MOKENA, Ill. (WLS) -- Derek Drake decided to think outside the box after losing his job during the pandemic. Or rather, think inside the box -- a 320 square foot shipping container to be exact. "I ...

John Lekic is the chef and owner of Farmers & Chefs in Poughkeepsie and vertically grows his own produce for his restaurant in a shipping container on site. He came across the concept of shipping ...

Eric and Matt could not be more earnest in their quest to feed the world. These two fresh-faced LA boys founded Local Roots four years ago. Their first purchases were broken-down, 40-foot shipping ...

Filled with factories and warehouses south of downtown L.A., the 5.2-square-mile city of Vernon (population: about 240) was settled long ago by farmers. So you could say that Local Roots Farms is ...

A 320-square-foot container just north of downtown Houston is not where you would expect to find a farm, but that's exactly where is located at. Acre in a Box consists of two shipping containers ...

This week’s spotlight are the students that work in the growing containers. They are fantastic and really help make sure those lettuce heads, salad greens, and basil keep making it into the bags every ...