Innovators within the produce industry are breaking the boundaries of food production — by growing crops not in fields, but in recycled shipping containers. This modern twist on farming is designed to ...

John Lekic is the chef and owner of Farmers & Chefs in Poughkeepsie and vertically grows his own produce for his restaurant in a shipping container on site. He came across the concept of shipping ...

4,000 heads of lettuce every 10 days: Local Roots‘ shipping container farms achieve that while using 99 percent less water. Today the LA-based company announced that it has reached cost parity with ...

The crops being cultivated here — lettuce, herbs and other leafy greens — are not what we’ve come to expect from this kind of operation. But the company behind this agricultural innovation owes a ...

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While it’ll likely take a few years to catch on, shipping container aeroponic farming could be coming to a restaurant near you. Share Farm-to-table may have worked its way into our everyday vocabulary ...

Freight Farms co-founders Jon Friedman, left, and Brad McNamara in a retrofitted shipping container using hydroponics and LED lighting to grow such plants as basil ...

The Bahamas Agriculture and Marine Science Institute (BAMSI) yesterday received two container farms to be placed in North Andros and Eleuthera from Bahamas-based grower, Eeden Farms. Jomo Campbell, ...

This week’s spotlight are the students that work in the growing containers. They are fantastic and really help make sure those lettuce heads, salad greens, and basil keep making it into the bags every ...

Companies like Green Line Growers in South Boston are farming year-round in refrigerated shipping containers developed by Freight Farms. Video: Gabe Johnson/WSJ. Photo: Tony Luong for The Wall Street ...