How To Build A Shipping Container Farm

A reefer container is required in this climate because we need to maintain a constant temperature year round and the insulation will be required to keep the container warm in the arctic winters.

How to build a shipping container farm. This farmer also added an extra 20ft shipping container for additional storage. Friedman says they get calls from the middle east almost every day asking about availability. The shipping container farm the project is starting with a 20 refrigerated shipping container as the shell. Welcome to the tour of the greenery by my friends jon and brad of freight farms.

About press copyright contact us creators advertise developers terms privacy policy safety how youtube works test new features. Cropbox is a shipping container farm system featuring the latest technology in precision farming. Suddenly shipping containers which friedman had been trying to turn into a living space for fun sparked their curiosity. Future container farmers gain through value based competition because the cost of acquiring used shipping.

In 2011 they relaunched and reconceived their business as freight farms aiming to build farms in areas that couldn t support traditional methods. This allows for adequate spacing between plants and lights and greater airflow in the farm two areas amyot encountered challenges with while using the shipping container. Using vertical hydroponic farming she grows 1 5 acres of fresh. We are very proud to say that we are the one and an only company which producing a mobile farm with 3600 lettuce per month.

Introducing the cropbox it s a completely turn key agricultural system without worries about the weather pests heating prices or water. Two 40ft shipping containers plus an added roof gives you a full barn without a full barn build. It s not a myth or rocket science. Vertical farming indoor farming and hydroponic farming all rolled into one.