MOKENA, Ill. (WLS) -- Derek Drake decided to think outside the box after losing his job during the pandemic. Or rather, think inside the box -- a 320 square foot shipping container to be exact. "I ...

Add to that a booming population—set to reach nearly 10 billion by 2050—and the math becomes startling. Experts predict we’ll need 70% more food to sustain humanity. But, here’s the problem – soil ...

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — Take a shipping container in the San Fernando Valley, add low-income, at-risk children and teens, and you get – kale? A fruitful partnership between the City of Los Angeles, ...

An East Setauket "vertical" farm where crops are grown inside shipping containers has become so successful that its owner says he is ready to expand and move elsewhere. Ryan McGann told Newsday his ...

Vertical farming is highly adaptable to our future increased use of robotics, AI, data sensing, and data processing. Much of this work is repetitive and backbreaking, so it makes sense to use machines ...

MARION COUNTY, Fla. — Few things are more pressing for college students than exam-time stress and shopping on a tight budget. And as University of Florida sophomore Amelia Ernst works on the art of ...