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 ...

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 ...

As more consumers seek out sustainably produced food options, a new partnership announced today is taking a critical step in that direction by adopting cleaner energy practices that will affect the ...

ANN ARBOR, MI - Hidden inside an upcycled shipping container tucked away in the corner of an industrial plaza parking lot is a fully functional hydroponics farm. Crop Spot Farms is essentially a ...

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 ...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) - Around 9 a.m. on a recent Thursday, Allix Ice, 22, a senior dietetics and nutrition major, stepped into a steel shipping container and began her duties. She confirmed that ...

Around 9 a.m. Thursday, Allix Ice, 22, a senior dietetics and nutrition major, stepped into a steel shipping container and began her duties. She confirmed that the thermostat was at 60 degrees and ...

With GrowPods, stores can sell ultra-clean strawberries and leafy greens that can be picked fresh right off the vine Progressive Grocer reports that the Kroger Co. "is taking farm-to-table to a whole ...

As an astronomer and physicist, John Cannon’s work is literally out of this world. His expertise as the department chair at Macalester College in St. Paul is studying nearby low-mass galaxies.