Ultimate Guide to Shipping Container Farms
Important choices include which crops to grow, where to locate the container farm, how to price, and how to
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!
FreshBox Farms uses shipping containers for their growing areas, but several of them are housed together in a warehouse instead of being freestanding. They have the scale to distribute produce to dozens of stores within 150 miles of their headquarters.
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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