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 ...

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 ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Next time you go out to eat in H-town, there's a good chance your veggies weren't grown on a farm, but in a box of sorts. Walk into the city's fanciest restaurants and you're ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

WASHINGTON, April 12, 2017 - Can hydroponics – fruit and vegetable growing systems that don’t use soil – be certified as organic farming? The Agriculture Department’s answer is likely coming soon.

CHICKASAW, Ala. (WALA) -Thanks to a partnership with Freight Farms. Chickasaw students are about to try their hand at hydroponic farming. Superintendent David Wofford says the school system has been ...

The latest salvo in the battle between traditional organic farmers — who grow in nutrient-rich soil — and soil-free hydroponic operators centers on a prohibited weed-fighting chemical. Soil farmers ...

It looks like a sea can, but you won't find any produce inside. Instead this 40-foot container is growing hundreds of heads of lettuce and plants like mountain sorrel using hydroponics. Makivik says ...