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...
Have you noticed the shipping container next to Cheyenne Mountain Zoo’s historic carousel and wondered what’s going on? CMZoo is planning to grow lettuce using a retired shipping container. But, that’s simplifying things. Inside the modified shipping container’s sturdy walls lies a high-tech, energy-efficient, and bio-safe grow house. It’s hard to find a project much...
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, the developer of “GrowPods” – proprietary, automated micro-farms, said that its signature growth medium, Prolific, is being used by people who want to grow their own food and thus avoid potential exposure to Covid-19 at their grocery stores or through deliveries. A new CDC advisory specifically mentions grocery stores as public settings where...
GP Solutions, Inc. developer of GrowPods, said its unique transportable micro-farms can help provide fresh food where it is needed during the coronavirus pandemic. The New York Times reported, “The coronavirus has begun affecting the nation’s food supply chains.” TIME Magazine said, “The nation’s food supply chain is breaking.” The USDA has been criticized for...
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...
GP Solutions, Inc. (OTC:GWPD), the developer of “GrowPods” – advanced automated micro-farms, and Prolific – a line of innovative nutrients and soilless growth medium, announced that its products are now available on Amazon. Consumers will now be able to purchase “Prolific Soilless Growth Medium” and “Prolific Hydro” on Amazon, and start growing high quality organic...
