Shipping Container Farms
Vertical Farming Systems & More Using Indoor Container Farms
In July, we told you about the new shipping container farm growing produce for animals at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. Since then, CMZoo’s horticulture team has been working through challenges and growing their knowledge, along with lots of lettuce. Last month, they harvested their first test yield of romaine lettuce for CMZoo’s giraffe herd! “They ate it up!,”...
Recently, The Innovators Podcast, hosted by Tom Dioro, featured GP Solution’s own Shannon Illingworth. Shannon is the Founder of Grow Pod and Produce Now, as well as the Director and Founder of the Clean Food Initiative Foundation. From the campus of Stanford University, this is The Innovators Radio Show + Podcast featuring in-depth, one-on-one interviews...
GP Solutions (Ticker: GWPD), announced that GrowPods provide businesses, communities, farmers and non-profit organizations a way to grow healthy and clean food while reducing carbon footprints. According to the World Resources Institute, agriculture plays in central role in carbon pollution. Earlier this year, Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue called for innovation in reducing agricultural carbon...
GP Solutions, Inc (Ticker: GWPD), said its GrowPods can help solve current issues with food shortages, as well as control escalating prices. GrowPods are portable self-contained automated farms that can be located virtually anywhere. With a controlled environment, food can be grown without pesticides, harmful chemicals, or risk of pathogen contamination. In fact, food grown...
GP Solutions, Inc. developer of GrowPods – innovative controlled environment indoor micro-farms, announced it has teamed with Caterina’s Club and Chef Bruno to feed hungry children. Caterina’s Club’s “Feeding the Kids Program” provides children with a hot dinner every night throughout Southern California. Today, due to COVID-19, the region is now one of the most economically impacted in the country....
GP Solutions, Inc. (OTC:GWPD), developer of GrowPods – innovative controlled environment indoor micro-farms – said that America’s food production is changing. Investors are participating in the sector, not only for healthy returns but also to fix a broken food chain that relies on enormous corporate farms that often use harmful pesticides, fertilizers, and herbicides to...
Across the world in sealed shipping container and labs, revolutions are being plotted. This sounds like a James Bond movie but it’s happening for real and (this time) the revolutionaries are on our side! What’s the aim? Only the oldest, most-established industry in the world: farming. The basic elements have been the same for thousands of years and are so familiar most people won’t even think about the assumptions - farming is an activity where crops are grown outside in dirt and plants grow with sunlight and rain and are harvested once a year, right? The future of farming is......
GP Solutions (OTC:GWPD), the developer of modular controlled-environment micro-farms, says that GrowPods may help farmers reduce risk and increase quality control. Crop failure can be devastating for large and small farms. Crop failure does not only occur in open fields – even in greenhouses and indoor cultivation facilities, crops can fail for a variety of...
A romaine lettuce recall has expanded to more major retailers on Monday. Federal agencies warned the salad products that originated in California may be tainted with E. coli bacteria. Kroger joined the laundry list of grocery store chains acting on warnings from the Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Target,...
The Future is Growing Locally So you’ve made the big step. You’ve decided that buying locally grown food is best or you and your family. But do you realize how it also benefits your local community and your environment? It's not just better for you, it's better for everyone. As one of the top vertical farm companies in America we’ve learned loads about the benefits of container farms and how they can enable hyper-local food. Transporting food literally thousands of miles burns tons of gas, and is highly polluting but by buying locally you are boosting your local community's health......
