Live in It, Grow Vegetables in It: A New Container Farm You've Never Seen

Anyone in agriculture knows you cannot put up buildings on basic farmland. No matter how strong your need for farm housing is, you cannot break national policies that protect basic farmland. To meet that need, many farm owners turn to color-steel temporary buildings as a stopgap. Those buildings are only moderately comfortable, though, and they clash with the look of a farm. Creative container farm houses solve the problem: fashion meets the farm, refreshing the site and giving it a premium, stylish feel.

Shipping containers began as cargo boxes, but designers have turned them into creative container homes. Carefully designed used containers can blend perfectly with a farm—reusing materials while also working around land-use limits. Beyond that, companies such as Freight Farms and Cropbox in the United States have researched converting containers into organic farms, producing healthier organic vegetables in less space and at lower cost.

Creative container houses, blending popular design elements, can be custom-built to a farm owner's needs and become distinctive, characterful places. They can serve as offices, homes, or vacation retreats—so you fully enjoy being close to nature.

In the morning, open the curtains and a sea of green farm greenery fills your view; sunlight spills across the windowsill. Push the window open and the farm's unique fresh scent rolls in—calm and uplifting.

On a farm, though, a container is more than a cozy home. With advanced technology, it can also be a nursery for organic crops. If you want a farm of your own, the new container farms from companies such as Freight Farms and Cropbox can meet that need.

According to reports, companies such as Freight Farms and Cropbox have researched converting containers into farms. These container farms can sit freely on rooftops or vacant lots, forming an efficient, environmentally friendly urban agriculture system.

Freight Farms, Cropbox, and similar firms use hydroponics—growing crops with minerals rather than soil—so plants are less affected by weather. Compared with traditional growing methods, container farms can save 90% of water. LED lighting is also installed; versus other lighting approaches, it is more advantageous.

In addition, Freight Farms and Cropbox provide a mobile app. Through it, users can precisely control the container environment—water, air quality, temperature—and make smart adjustments from a phone to hit the target results. Even beginners in agriculture can manage with ease.

Freight Farms designs dedicated space for plants at different growth stages, including room for 2,500 plants from germination through seedlings, plus 256 vertical towers that can hold more than 4,500 mature plants. Cropbox, for its part, says its containers can hold 3,000 plants.

Compared with traditional farms, containers can also be stacked in limited locations—meaning people can create high-density, high-yield farms in stacked setups.

Freight Farms has been developing container farms since 2010 and only recently launched its latest version. These containers start at USD $10,556, and customers may choose financing. Cropbox containers sell for USD $49,347 each, or customers can lease at USD $999 per month. That way, you can own a small farm and eat vegetables you grew yourself with confidence.

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