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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new system at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden is providing hundreds of pounds of fresh produce for animals each week.The zoo is using shipping containers outfitted with hydroponic growing ...

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 ...