How They Did That: Container Farms May Be the Sustainable Solution to Our Broken Food Systems

[@Mala-bs6xk]

What about the electricity required to run the operations within the container? There's no mention of that.

[@nicoletacoca6014]

Wow 🤩 this technology is incredible. Can’t wait for this concept to grow and be everywhere for everyone 🌱

[@livingfree2333]

This brings me hope for our future!

[@seekerowl3260]

I feel like big cities could invest in these to promote green spaces in neighborhoods and use these as education opportunities to get more people interested in small scale/local agriculture.

[@joneshank1]

Grow fruit trees and veggies in all yards!

[@lesterlasa3367]

Excellent news thank you hope they will grow organic food

[@MosesMode]

They only grow organic produce! Organic just means that it was grown without chemical fertilizer or pesticides. Both of these are unnecessary in a container farm since they're indoors and they grow the food hydroponically (without soil).

[@lesterlasa3367]

@@MosesMode excellent thanks

[@fglatzel]

This technology is amazing, however this particular system here is just a copy of a - not so well thought out - original from the "Leafy green machine". There is a lot of wasted space and the system is very un-flexible and cumbersome to operate. It looks a lot like a (semi finished) student project. The vertical planting system I use, fits in a 6m container, but provides a similar yield and is subdivided into 5 different climate zones and 8 different nutrient zones, which can be independently controlled. In addition to allowing me to grow a large variety of different fruits, vegetables, spices and herbs, I can grow potatoes, rice, soybeans, grains and grapes too. It has 10 encapsulated (enclosed) fruit trees and two growing stations for mushrooms or mycelium. Additionally, it has a small, build in brewery, it makes wine, can distill spirits and makes it's own liquid fertilizer from plant material and recycles plant material to create biogas, which I use for brewing and distilling, not to mention that it also has 8 small bioreactors that will produce different kinds of lab grown meat in the future, using nutrients from soybeans. This highly compact food production system fits in a 6m, insulated shipping container, has it's own solar panels, water maker, wind turbine and heat exchanger.

[@tobygosling1653]

We could help by not browning crops for animals and then eating the animals, eat the crops directly would save huge amount of land and resources

[@mikeskylark1594]

What a cool innovation!

[@mcc5295]

Great video

[@witchywamen9536]

Each attendee at the Oscars received over $150,000 worth of products in their goodie bag, but something like this is unattainable by the average citizen. Sad.

[@serennshizzle]

Love this! Very cool.

[@shellrock5294]

Really great video, you guys are back on track. I do wonder what the nutritional standards are compared to that grown in soil, especially organic.

[@HoldLeadersAccountable]

This is so cool and would make me want to be this new era Farmer! So Cool!

[@leobonek3204]

Nice information

[@vantropolispodcast]

This is awesome!

[@jojobeanstudio1339]

I wish they'd come back :(

[@anniemayflower9187]

9 months without video is most of time end of a channel !!

[@anngo1840]

I hope in the future they will use the solar energy to generate the electricity for those freight farms!

[@kovy689]

Nice but isn’t the artificial lighting energy intensive?

[@robertszynal4745]

They covered the light and water but failed to cover the soil and nutrients. Where does this come from, is it shipped in causing the same issues it's avoiding? Traditional farms have to pay a lot of attention to crop rotations to ensure the soil is replenished. I really hope this can grow and take off like the plant-based burgers have. Even if it just relieves a bit of the pressure on the limited land available then it'll really have a positive impact.

[@Freightfarms]

Hi Robert! Speaking for Freight Farms here - since our farms are hydroponic, we don't use soil. We use granular nutrients that are dissolved in the water to nourish crops. Check out this video to learn more! kzbin.info/www/bejne/bn3Nq5eXgqp2nNk

[@robertszynal4745]

@@Freightfarms Thanks! That was interesting. So nutrients have to be created and shipped in but this is much more efficient than current traditional farming. What is the base power usage of one of these? I presume temperature control ends up being the most energy intensive part and that would depend on where it is in the world. I guess attention was paid to insulation, especially in units going to very hot or very cold regions? How much space for solar panels and battery storage would be needed for locations which are away from grids?

[@ddhgerlb]

It may be possible that naturally derived nutrients from compost teas and the like added to the aquaponic system might supply the plants with good nutritional values but do we really understand what role the sun's rays play in providing nutrition? Yes, things can grow nicely and have good shape and color but this kind of manipulation we have also mastered with traditional farming methods that also produce food with low nutritional value. I would like to see the data on how growing under lights affects the plant's ability to produce high nutritional value. I'm all for innovation but only when it really provides a betterment.

[@fortcastlevgn2368]

lac of taste and environmental contaminants that also helps our microbiota

[@TomatoPotatoWapato]

I want one:) so If my recall is correct a vegan can live off a 1/6th of an acre per year wich would mean 12 vegans complete diet out of 1 container. Wow! Plus no crop deaths!!!!

[@cyco1978]

That’s dope

[@consis]

#prahdoose

[@joeblowjo]

guess your channel is dead

[@jblasutavario9549]

Like most vegans who crave animal products