A solar powered shipping-container farm yields the annual equivalent of three to five acres?

[grainchaser]

All I see are fancy (expensive!) NFT set-ups with finicky logic controllers and and too much to go wrong. Want to grow lettuce and spinach? A simple raft system is quite productive and a cinch to maintain (I have done greenhouse and outdoors). Tomatoes, peppers, carrots and numerous other fruits and veggies? Simple bag culture with coco coir or vermiculite/perlite is amazingly simple and yields well. As others have mentioned, raised beds with intense interplanting will yield an amazing and varied bounty. If you want yield in small space, you go vertical.

 

[Horsehat]

Iceburg has no value but some of the other ones are really good for you and no you can not grow rice wheat of beans in a small area and get much from it , kuduman this is some of what I grow
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Wow, nice.

 

[kuduman]

Iceburg has no value but some of the other ones are really good for you and no you can not grow rice wheat of beans in a small area and get much from it , kuduman this is some of what I grow
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Wow. Very nice.

 

[Sigo]

"Every 40-foot shipping container can yield the annual equivalent of three to five acres of farmland. Ellestad says his company can grow plants twice as fast as a conventional farm while using 97 percent less water."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...m_term=.753c006b6cd0&wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1

In fairbanks Alaska, there is a resort that has a restaurant and a greenhouse. The greenhouse uses this system to produce veggies for the restaurant. It produces approx 40% of the required veggies, but root veggies, like carrots and potatoes, do not do well in Hydroponic systems. If you cant to produce food year around, this could be a good option for some produce. You can also couple it with fish tanks to grow/farm fish. The fish produce nutrients that help the plants and vice versa.

That said, these are not "solutions" for food deserts in our cities. Food deserts in our cities are due to the environment which discourages small businesses and large businesses, such as grocery stores. Grocery stores do not open in low income neighborhoods because they are plagued with theft and other security issues that plague other businesses in low income neighborhoods. If folks need a solution to food deserts in low income sections of the cities, they need to figure a way to mitigate the impact of the petty crime in the neighborhoods. Partnering with local community groups, like the article says, may offer some of the solution.