Fresh Food Grown in a Shipping Container? A Conversion that will Surprise Many

How could it be that a shipping container provides the solution for a growing problem? It’s not just that it’s a growing problem; it’s also about a problem about growing. How do cities find ways to create good green spaces to grow fresh food? A conversion from a shipping container has challenged the idea that there are no gardens or growing spaces in the city. This is how a simple idea has taken root to grow into a solution for the world.

Shipping Container Crops A few companies are starting out with a concept of a mobile farm. It’s a design that has merit because it comes from a shipping container. Here’s how it works. The shipping container has already inherent to be converted into any number of designs. It is modified to have hanging rows of vertical farming inside. The rows are hydroponically grown in a system that doesn’t require soil or even natural light. The plants, which could be anything from herbs to pumpkins, berries to watermelons, are grown in this environment. The container is kept at a constant temperature with monitoring climate controls and humidifiers. There is even a system of LED lights timed to replicate the cycle and timing of the sun. Contained within the container, it can be simply plugged in to a power source or attached with solar panels to produce enough energy to be self-reliant. All of this produces a consistent crop in any temperature or climate.

Benefits of the Shipping Contain Conversion In any temperature or climate, that’s the promise of these containers. Australia has enough climates and temperatures to create vastly different ecosystems. A container helps to regulate that difference and produce a food crop that can be harvested in as early as 6 weeks from the initial delivery. As a possible solution, that means that it can be installed in the middle of an urban sprawl or set into remote areas where gardening can be near impossible. It can even be installed on the rooftop of an apartment building to create a community garden that produces fruits and vegetables for all the residents in the building. It can be placed in school grounds where the garden can help educate children on harvesting food.

It can even be installed in places like the remote outback where access to fresh fruit and vegetables can be difficult. As of now, the idea is still being proven to the potential customers. It can be an expensive ask for a private user to purchase a container such as this. Restaurants are the next option to market towards as they can harvest their own food for their customers. It can satisfy the demands for a locally-grown, organic food source that can be controlled and managed. This shipping container conversion is only possible through the ingenuity of someone who saw a problem and used the container as a solution. Which problem will the container solve next?