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Alabama Newscenter — Auburn University Using High-Tech Shipping Containers to Grow Produce for Campus Dining

| June 14, 2021 @ 2:00 pm

By Kristen Bowman
Auburn University

Recycled shipping containers have gained popularity in recent years, being converted into everything from houses to small stores – but the Auburn University College of Agriculture, in partnership with Campus Dining, is using them as self-contained “vertical” farms to grow produce to serve students.

In April, the college acquired two Freight Farms shipping containers that have been converted into technologically advanced hydroponic growing stations in which plants grow vertically indoors without soil, getting their nutrition from water and light energy from powerful LEDs.

Now, the farms are producing their first crop of lettuce.

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