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 ...

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 ...

Denver-based FarmBox Foods is transforming shipping containers into farms. The repurposed steel boxes (which once held freight on trains, trucks and ships) get filled with living green walls and ...

These farms grow the same amount of food as a four-acre field. In a huge warehouse just outside downtown Los Angeles, a startup turns recycled shipping containers into vertical farms. A new digital ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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SEDALIA, Colo. — A three-year-old Colorado company has an ambitious goal: to bring food security, safety and sustainability to communities in need around the world. FarmBox Foods aims to achieve that ...

If you've walked through the Greenway in the past few days, you might have noticed a tall, slick box with a leafy design on its exterior. Inside this box is an automated, internet-connected farm that ...