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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

‍Nour El-Naboulsi is a Burlington, Vermont farmer — but he doesn’t tend to a field of crops or a clearing of cattle. As the executive director of Village Hydroponics, El-Naboulsi oversees the ...

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LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — Take a shipping container in the San Fernando Valley, add low-income, at-risk children and teens, and you get – kale? A fruitful partnership between the City of Los Angeles, ...

In 2010, entrepreneurs Brad McNamara and Jon Friedman planted the seeds intended to boost “urban agriculture” to become a more viable and competitive alternative in the food industry. They put ‘We’ ...

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 ...

Tucked behind the stately former brewery building that houses Humanim in East Baltimore, a shipping container is a new frontier in locally sourced food. “We want to redefine what farm to fork means in ...

Monday, April 29, was a very exciting day for HLA and the Purdue Student Farm. Two Freight Farm growing containers and a cooler container were delivered and installed at the Purdue Student Farm. What ...