Cropbox
Urban Farm
Why pick this one
Cropbox provides hydroponic shipping-container systems that grow leafy greens year-round while using about 90% less water.
Best for
- Year-round leafy-greens and herb production
- Strawberry production in islands or regions with limited fresh supply
- Urban or remote microgreens production with limited land
- Mushroom cultivation requiring controlled humidity, temperature, and CO2
- Farms needing smartphone monitoring and automated nutrient dosing
Look elsewhere if
- The buyer specifically needs conventional soil-based agriculture rather than hydroponic or controlled-environment systems
- The buyer wants direct purchase of fresh produce rather than a farming system
Specialties
- Hydroponic container systems for leafy greens and herbs
- Hydroponic strawberry growing systems
- Indoor microgreens and fodder systems
- Controlled-environment mushroom cultivation containers
What makes them different
- A leafy-greens and herbs Cropbox can produce up to an acre of food in a 40-foot reefer shipping container.
- The leafy-greens and herbs system uses about 90% less water than conventional and greenhouse growing methods.
- The Cropbox app monitors and adjusts lighting, CO2, nutrients, pH, temperature, humidity, fans, and water conditions.
- Cropboxes can be stacked up to five-high and added or removed as demand changes.
- The mushroom unit uses about 3 gallons of water daily and can produce thousands of pounds of mushrooms annually.
- Response time
- Get growing in less than a month with the herb, green, and lettuce CropBox.
Distilled from this business's own website.
Contact & Location
- Address
- 709 Southwest Blvd, Clinton, NC 28328-4636
- Phone
- +19103855523
- Website
- http://www.cropbox.co/
- tripp@verticalcropconsultants.com
Services
- Controlled-environment agriculture systems
- Indoor vertical farming systems
- Hydroponic farming systems
- Modular shipping-container farm systems
- Financing and installation options