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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hank Kim shows how herbs are grown vertically at the Square Roots hydroponic farm, which utilizes 20 shipping containers to create ...

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 ...

Waiting to grow into green leafy plants, hundreds of seeds are being nursed in a mix of peat moss and coco cork formed into tiny cubes and germinated — inside a freight container set up to grow ...

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 ...

WYKOFF — In his high-tech cargo container behind Wykoff's Minnwest Bank branch, Tony Rahe takes a tray of greens off a nursery shelf and places it on a counter. The tray and its clear lid, used to ...

Hydroponics—growing crops in water only, without soil—dates back to the first century, in the Roman Empire. But four millennials working out of a barn just east of Indianapolis are putting a new spin ...

WYKOFF, Minn. — In his high-tech cargo container behind Wykoff's Minnwest Bank branch, Tony Rahe takes a tray of greens off a nursery shelf and places it on a counter. The tray and its clear lid, used ...

As supermarket produce prices and instances of food recalls rise, interest in at-home gardening systems has also increased. Hydroponic growing systems don’t require soil and take up minimal room ...

Lettuce grows in one of the Cincinnati Zoo's container farms. Hydroponics technician Zach Burns says he uses red and blue light to grow the plants. Last April, the Cincinnati Zoo started growing some ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Groton — Rows of lettuce growing in a hydroponic system in a shipping container outside the school district's administration ...

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.