DeMario Vitalis sits in a 40-foot-by-10-foot container reflecting on his family’s past and his future—and the roots that tie them together. The windowless container the size of a semitrailer sits on a ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Salvation Army is working with JEA to bring an indoor food production facility, or a hydroponic container farm, to Downtown Jacksonville. Maj. Keath Biggers, Salvation Army of ...

Freight Farms – a Boston-based agriculture technology company – is changing the game for farming practices across the country. Located in all 50 states, Freight Farms’ hydroponic container farms use ...

A Massachusetts company has developed a unique, hydroponic growing environment in closed 40-foot freight containers that are being used world-wide to grow produce in areas with bad soil or weather ...

Nov. 25—LYONS FALLS — Hidden away in the back of a Center Street parking lot, by a steep bank that falls into the Black River, is a 40-by-8-by-10-foot white metal box that looks like a standard ...

Around 9 a.m. Thursday, Allix Ice, 22, a senior dietetics and nutrition major, stepped into a steel shipping container and began her duties. She confirmed that the thermostat was at 60 degrees and ...

Leafy greens will soon have a chance to grow on cold, wintry days in the Quad-Cities. Parked on cement in the Quad City Botanical Center's parking lot is something called a Freight Farm. Inside the ...

COLORADO – A company based in a Denver suburb turns up-cycled shipping containers into vertical hydroponic farms and claims the containers can create as much as two football fields worth of ...

Dustin Lang walks between the rows that will eventually be planted with lettuce for the hydroponic vertical garden. LED lights cast blue and red light onto the plants for optimal growth. (Heidi ...

ANN ARBOR, MI - Hidden inside an upcycled shipping container tucked away in the corner of an industrial plaza parking lot is a fully functional hydroponics farm. Crop Spot Farms is essentially a ...

As an astronomer and physicist, John Cannon’s work is literally out of this world. His expertise as the department chair at Macalester College in St. Paul is studying nearby low-mass galaxies.