Gardening in shipping containers

Energy & Sustainability

Luke Iseman makes stuff, some of which works. He invites you to drive a bike for a living (dirtnailpedicab.com), stop killing your garden (growerbot.com), and live in an off-grid shipping container (boxouse.com).

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December 20th, 2008 2

Image via Ecogeek

Here’s a vertical farm that seems a bit more DIY-able than others, using shipping containers, for strong, cheap, stackable infrastructure. You can learn more about Organitech here. It’s not clear how production-ready they are, but this seems like an approach just begging for tinkering…

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2 thoughts on “Gardening in shipping containers”

Marcel says:

December 23rd, 2008 at 4:42 am

O, this has passed the concept stage a good while ago. I believe the police in the Netherlands has stumbled across a marijuana plantation set up in a couple of buried shipping containers more than a year ago. They had their own power generator in there as well.