Future of Farming May Live Inside This Container
Farming could be heading back to the way it was 200 years ago according to Brad McNamara CEO of Freight Farms. Food will be local and people will get to accept that their food will not have travelled around the world before it reaches them, the…
Farming could be heading back to the way it was 200 years ago according to Brad McNamara CEO of Freight Farms. Food will be local and people will get to accept that their food will not have travelled around the world before it reaches them, the people expected to get involved will be former vets, those who have already retired and husband and wife partnerships.
Innovation is becoming the norm in farming, and there are crops of companies who are managing to bring fresh, and sustainable produce to the population. North Carolina is represented by CropBox while Dallas has Growtainers and Atlanta PodPonics. While customers are buying what produces, companies will continue to provide it.
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There is only about an acre of farmland being used in each case and the containers used to grow the food have been described as a hydroponic farm. This is the description provided by David Schmitz, who owns such a freight farm based in Stony Brook University Long Island New York.
Items are going straight to the school café as around 800 lettuce find their way in and this happens all year round, with just 10% of the ordinary water that would be needed for regular farming. No soil is involved, and there are no pesticides. Schmitz believes around 1000 students a week uses the produce.
McNamara explains how the containers cost so much less than a greenhouse and running costs are much lower than for a conventional farm. It is hoped this will bring more people into farming.
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Helena Marsh is the Editor-in-Chief at TrendinTech, where she leads editorial strategy and oversees coverage across artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and enterprise technology. With more than a decade in technology journalism on both sides of the Atlantic, she previously served as a senior editor at Wired UK and covered the technology sector for The Guardian, following the rise of the big platforms, the Cambridge Analytica scandal and the regulatory push from Brussels and Washington. Helena holds an MA in Journalism from City, University of London and is a regular speaker at Web Summit in Lisbon and CES in Las Vegas. She believes technology reporting should be rigorous and plainly written, so readers understand what actually changes for them rather than what a company's announcement promises.
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