Freight Farms, a Boston-based startup, can turn almost anyone into a farmer -- assuming you've got the capital, some business smarts and a few days to get trained. You don't need a tractor or any soil ...

The company’s Leafy Green Machine, as they call their upcycled 40-foot shipping containers, comes with its own computerized brain that allows you to monitor the temperature, moisture, humidity, and ...

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 ...

Near the entrance of a 40-foot container farm installed at New Mexico State University’s Grants campus, dozens of 4-day-old kale plants lined a horizontal nursery bed, sprouting at various lengths in ...

BOSTON (AP) -- 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 ...

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 ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X They don’t sound like farmers. With a team comprised of a former high school Latin teacher, a ...

PHOENIX -- The future of urban agriculture might require farmers to think inside the box. Farmers here are growing vegetables here in converted freight shipping containers equipped with the latest ...

Kimbal Musk’s Square Roots is giving aspiring urban farmers their own shipping containers and helping them sprout a new business, in the hopes of creating a new agricultural system. In a parking lot ...

Several U.S. farm groups say tariffs on China-built cargo-handing equipment would hurt U.S. agriculture, highlighting the challenge of curbing China’s dominance in maritime trade. The Trump ...

BOSTON (AP) — 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 ...