JON FRIEDMAN: So we see a lot of communities all around the world who don't have access to fresh local food. And what that means is they don't have a range of crops in their diet. They don't have, ...

Download the PDF of this article. What inspired the idea to create the farm system in a shipping container? We got started around 2009, and at the time there were only rooftop greenhouses coming into ...

Innovators within the produce industry are breaking the boundaries of food production — by growing crops not in fields, but in recycled shipping containers. This modern twist on farming is designed to ...

From the outside, it resembles any one of the 17 million shipping containers that are currently in use around the world. But step inside and you’re entering a futuristic hydroponic, vertical farm ...

Arthur Lee, owner of MoVertical Farm, prepares to deliver his fish to market at his farm in Hong Kong's rural Yuen Long, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020. After a career making the shipping containers that ...

This funding will help the hydroponic container farming company expand its customer base and increase reach of its farms to more remote areas and urban centers "These investments from leading AgTech ...

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 ...

INDIANAPOLIS — An unassuming plot of land sits on the east side of Indianapolis on 30th Street. From the outside, it looks like an empty lot with a couple of shipping containers on it. But inside ...

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Back in November, I wrote a post here on Forbes.com that described "Vertical Farming" as a promising method of increasing the supply of food in limited spaces. Financial backers included Jeff Bezos ...