This is a presentation on the University of Oregon Office of Sustainability's Grow Pod, a new initiative to bring indoor agriculture to campus. This presentation provides an overview of the indoor agriculture industry, with a focus on shipping container agriculture.
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1. THE GROW POD
Thanks to the Food Studies Program and the ENVS
Interdisciplinary Environmental Sciences Seed Grant for
supporting the Grow Pod start-up and this event!
3. THE FUTURE OF FARMING?
https://www.ttnews.com/articles/container-farms-new-type-agriculture
4. Indoor Agriculture is “growing crops and
raising insects using hydroponic,
aquaponic, and aeroponic techniques in
warehouses, greenhouses, and
containers.”
-The Promise and Perils of Shipping Container
Agriculture, Newbean Capital
6. LED LIGHTING - IMPROVED EFFICIENCY AND DECREASED COSTS
Diagram from The Promise and Perils of Container Farming,
by Newbean Capital
7. Shanghai port shipped more than 40 M TEUs in 2018 1
TEU = Twenty-foot equivalent unit
http://marinebharat.com/shanghai-worlds-largest-port-breaks-container-record/
11. Kitchen on the Run, Europe
https://kitchenontherun.org/en/
12. According to Newbean Capital,
“the software company Intuit
forecasts that 40% of the US
workforce will be contingent
workers by 2020.”
THE GIG
ECONOMY
Image: https://hbr.org/2018/03/thriving-in-the-gig-
economy
13. WHY CONTAINER FARMING NOW?
➤ Large supply of inexpensive containers (20 million per year)
➤ Lighting technology has improved and costs have decreased
dramatically
➤ Relatively low cost entry to farming (cheaper than buying
land)
➤ Appealing to entrepreneurial types
21. Freight Farms, Sodexo, Clark University
“On harvest days I deliver the lettuce around 10:30, lunch service starts at 11, so students are getting produce
that was harvested just a half an hour ago.” — Nick Pagen, Sodexo Student Farmer at Clark University
https://www.freightfarms.com/clark-university
22. CLARK UNIVERSITY
➤ https://www.freightfarms.com/education#campus
➤ Clark University partnered with Sodexo (the company that runs campus food services) to buy a
“Leafy Green Machine” from Freight Farms
➤ Freight Farms founders are Clark U. alumni
➤ Farm opened in January 2016
➤ Location: Farm is 100 yards from the dining hall
“Sustainability is a core value at Clark, and is incorporated into every aspect of student life on campus.
Clark was the first university in Massachusetts to sign on to the Real Food Challenge, a student-run
organization determined on sourcing 20% of all food sold on campus from local, ecologically-sound,
humanely raised or fair trade vendors by 2020.”
"The response has been terrific, and it's always the first kind of lettuce we run out of at the salad bar. It
also goes quickly at our retail operation where we have it as a grab and go option. Students are given a
choice between mesclun mix and Freight Farms lettuce, and 90% of the time they choose the Freight
Farms lettuce as the base of their salad. We feed around 1,000 people at lunch and 1,000 people at
dinner, and I would estimate that the salad bar is visited by several hundred students per day.”
23. Second Harvest Heartland, Minneapolis, Minnesota
We are delighted with the year of learning. We have modified what crops to grow and techniques. It continues to inspire. I don't
see that changing. We are going to stay in container until we decide to scale.” — Bob Branham, Second Harvest Heartland
24. SECOND HARVEST
HEARTLAND
In Minnesota, access to fresh
produce is the most difficult part of
the food supply chain for food
banks.
The farm started in early 2018.
Since then, it has inspired Pillsbury
United, a local community kitchen,
to start up their own operation.
Plans are in the works to scale up
to larger indoor growing in the
warehouse.
https://www.freightfarms.com/blog/good-vibes
25. SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND CONTAINER FARM
“The cost of transportation to
source leafy greens from
southern states is prohibitive,
and the short shelf life…
[limits] the programs we are
able to get these foods to while
they are still fresh.”
—Bob Branham, Director of
Produce Strategy at Second
Harvest
27. INDUSTRY CONSULTANTS:
AGRICTECTURE
“When the agritecture.com blog was founded in 2011,
it aimed to discover new forms of urban agriculture and
share them with the world in order to inspire a new
generation of ‘agritects’...Following consistent
inquiries from curious entrepreneurs, a new idea also
emerged from this simple Tumblr blog: a technology-
agnostic consulting business designed to accelerate the
work of urban agriculture entrepreneurs.
Agritecture Consulting was founded in 2014. Through
feasibility studies and other service offerings, we
provide our clients with the tools, data, knowledge, and
network to ensure their success. We consult globally
and are based in New York City. Agritecture
Consulting’s expertise is in controlled environment
agriculture (CEA) including hydroponic greenhouses
and vertical farms. Agritecture also designs rooftop,
hydroponic, and amenity agriculture solutions. Our
greatest strengths are our interdisciplinary team, global
data, and robust methodology.”
29. ➤ Importance of training
farmers
➤ Educating potential
customers
➤ Education as important
part of marketing to
equipment buyers
➤ Farms as part of
university curriculum and
co-curricular activities
https://www.agritecture.com/blog/2019/4/9/the-healing-powers-of-plants
EDUCATION AND
TRAINING
30. BENEFITS/APPEAL/OPPORTUNITIES
➤ Hyper local produce - reduced transportation and fresh food
➤ Allows grow crops that don’t ship or store well
➤ Containers can fit in around the edges of existing development
➤ Attracts new types of people to the farming industry
➤ Sometimes cheaper to start up a container farm than buy land
➤ High level of control over growing variables
➤ Appealing from a marketing and engagement perspective
➤ Might help re-localize agricultural systems
➤ Opportunities for urban dwellers to participate in growing food
31. CHALLENGES/CRITIQUE/LIMITATIONS
➤ Overstating production, economics, etc.
➤ Rapidly changing industry
➤ Hard to compare operations because all are unique
➤ Inputs/outputs compared to land based ag - energy, water,
materials, etc.
➤ Does indoor ag perpetuate a disconnect from the land or
create new connections?
32. RECENT AND CURRENT RESEARCH
Specht, Kathrin & Siebert, Rosemarie, et al. (2014). Urban agriculture
of the future: An overview of sustainability aspects of food production
in and on buildings. Agriculture and Human Values.
➤ A lit review of 96 publications related to ZFarming
➤ Identifies opportunities, constraints, possibilities, and existing trends in
agriculture in and on buildings for food and nonfood plant production
Wylie Goodman, Jennifer Minner, Will the urban agricultural
revolution be vertical and soilless? A case study of controlled
environment agriculture in New York City, Land Use Policy, Volume
83, 2019, Pages 160-173
➤ Published in April 2019
➤ Includes a brief lit review of controlled environment agriculture as relates
to urban planning and urban agriculture
33. THE GROW
POD AT THE
UNIVERSITY
OF OREGONFind the grow pod video and shipping
container precedent study at
https://sustainability.uoregon.edu