Container farm

Are you interested in starting your own shipping container farm? Find out what you need to get started in our new blog.

What do you get when you cross a greenhouse with aquaponics and stick it in (and ON) a 20' shipping container? An urban farm in a box! Literally. Urban Farm Units, designed by Damien Chivialle,

If you've ever thought about getting started with shipping container greenhouses, then this post is for you. See examples, costs, DIY info, and more!

The Farmery is a start-up in Raleigh, N.C. that is developing an urban farm and market built from shipping containers and standard greenhouse components. The bottom level serves as a market to sell…

Along with "exponentially higher" yields, the CropBox promises that their complete growing system also uses 90% less water and 80% less fertilizer than conventional agriculture does.

But much more than that, the containers provide a collaborative space for shared farming experimentation, a brilliant idea for cultivating a community.

Shipping containers already make great portable storage units, without any modifications, but they also lend themselves to being used as homes, offices, and food production systems with a bit of customization. One idea for repurposing shipping containers in the city comes from the Hong Kong design studio OVA, the firm behind a shipping container hotel concept that Lloyd previously covered, but their Hive-Inn City Farms design takes aim at urban food production instead of lodging. The design…

Micro-Farms by French designer Damien Chivialle is a prototype of a small urban farm. It consists of a standard shipping container with a greenhouse on top.