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 ...

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 ...

COLORADO – A company based in a Denver suburb turns up-cycled shipping containers into vertical hydroponic farms and claims the containers can create as much as two football fields worth of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Next time you go out to eat in H-town, there's a good chance your veggies weren't grown on a farm, but in a box of sorts. Walk into the city's fanciest restaurants and you're ...

WASHINGTON, April 12, 2017 - Can hydroponics – fruit and vegetable growing systems that don’t use soil – be certified as organic farming? The Agriculture Department’s answer is likely coming soon.

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The latest salvo in the battle between traditional organic farmers — who grow in nutrient-rich soil — and soil-free hydroponic operators centers on a prohibited weed-fighting chemical. Soil farmers ...