{"id":102500,"date":"2020-02-18T12:48:57","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T20:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/farms-inside-shipping-containers-could-grow-more-local-produce"},"modified":"2020-02-18T12:48:57","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T20:48:57","slug":"farms-inside-shipping-containers-could-grow-more-local-produce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/farms-inside-shipping-containers-could-grow-more-local-produce","title":{"rendered":"Farms inside shipping containers could grow more local produce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/farms-inside-shipping-containers-could-grow-more-local-produce.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a 320-square-foot shipping container like you would see on a boat, a train, a truck, outfitted with an automated growing system,\u201d he says, \u201cto grow about 3.5 acres worth of produce with no pesticides, no herbicides, and about 98.5% less water.\u201d Inside the Greenery, plants grow vertically, with their roots in a nutrient solution instead of soil. Sensors, pumps, and LED lights automatically maintain ideal growing conditions, so you don\u2019t have to be an expert to start farming. \u201cYou plug it in and you\u2019re growing same day,\u201d McNamara says.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The crops grow vertically under LED lights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a 320-square-foot shipping container like you would see on a boat, a train, a truck, outfitted with an automated growing system,\u201d he says, \u201cto grow about 3.5 acres worth of produce with no pesticides, no herbicides, and about 98.5% less water.\u201d Inside the Greenery, plants grow vertically, with their roots in a nutrient solution [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,6,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-robotics-ai","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}