Shipping Container Farms: Scalable Agriculture Disruption
Shipping Container Farms are quietly reshaping urban agriculture. Unlike sprawling greenhouses, these compact, mobile units can be deployed quickly and cost less to set up.
Freight Farms is the world's leading manufacturer of container farming technology with dozens of container farms in use worldwide. If you've ever seen a shipping container farm before, there's a good chance it was one from Freight Farms. They sell their shipping container farming system as The Greenery, previously named The Leafy Green Machine.
Let's begin by saying that shipping container agriculture is one example in a long list of interesting applications for cargo boxes (container homes being the most obvious). And while the most common type of container agriculture is crop farming, there are several options for non-plant agriculture like fish or even protein-rich insects!
Growcer produces a line of container farm systems for all different environments including the Arctic Growing System (AGS) which operates from -52°C to 22°C, the Urban Growing System (UGS) which operates from -30°C to 35°C, and the Desert Growing System (DGS) which operates from -10°C to 45°C.
Size: Shipping containers are a good size for indoor farming applications. They are wide enough to allow a central walking path with growing areas on each side that are at arm's length front to back.
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