"Freight Farms," founded in Boston, Mass. in 2010, was the first company to retrofit large shipping containers into backyard vertical farms. Today, it's the largest producer of vertical farms in the ...

Los Angeles-based Local Roots' three farms are no ordinary farms. They're not even outside — but inside three small shipping containers. The startup uses vertical hydroponic farming, a method where ...

AUBURN, Ala. (WTVM) - Auburn University’s Agriculture Department converted a shipping container into a vertical farm to grow and produce food to serve to students. With these stations plants can grow ...

Vertical gardens can add visual interest and beauty to spaces that might otherwise be underutilized, says Joe Oszust, sales arborist, The Davey Tree Expert Company’s Albany office. Creating a vertical ...

Add to that a booming population—set to reach nearly 10 billion by 2050—and the math becomes startling. Experts predict we’ll need 70% more food to sustain humanity. But, here’s the problem – soil ...

An East Setauket "vertical" farm where crops are grown inside shipping containers has become so successful that its owner says he is ready to expand and move elsewhere. Ryan McGann told Newsday his ...

Vertical Roots, a vertical farming company which grows its leafy greens in repurposed shipping containers year-round, has opened its third indoor farm in Atlanta, Georgia, reducing produce ...

Taking a step back, there was once a day where containerization at the ports was the biggest invention since sliced bread. Kate Ascher in The Works: Anatomy of a City calls it “The Container ...

If you have limited outdoor space but still want to enjoy greenery, a vertical garden wall can be a great solution.

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 ...