If we built farms in space, they'd look nothing like the vast wheat fields of Kansas. But they just might look something like urban farms being used today—modular closed-loop hydroponic farms, ...

For most of its life, the global dry box container has operated in the shadows. Once it leaves the terminal, visibility drops off quickly. Unlike trucks Discover how container tracking is ...

PHOENIX -- The future of urban agriculture might require farmers to think inside the box. Farmers here are growing vegetables here in converted freight shipping containers equipped with the latest ...

The United States imports more than $100 billion of food every year from farms across the globe, often in the big metal shipping containers you see on cargo ships. Now, entrepreneurs are using those ...

The United States imports more than $100 billion of food every year from farms across the globe, often in the big metal shipping containers you see on cargo ships. Now, entrepreneurs are using those ...

Download the PDF of this article. What inspired the idea to create the farm system in a shipping container? We got started around 2009, and at the time there were only rooftop greenhouses coming into ...

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 ...

While other Orange County cities are busily turning warehouses into homeless shelters, Buena Park decided to take a different approach – re-purposing freight containers instead. The city soon will ...