Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Groton — Rows of lettuce growing in a hydroponic system in a shipping container outside the school district's administration ...

A new system at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden is providing hundreds of pounds of fresh produce for animals each week.The zoo is using shipping containers outfitted with hydroponic growing ...

Village Hydroponics Executive Director Nour El-Naboulsi, right, and Operations Manager Camille Jacoby stand for a portrait outside the shipping container farm, which is located in Burlington's ...

Add to that a booming population—set to reach nearly 10 billion by 2050—and the math becomes startling. Experts predict we’ll need 70% more food to sustain humanity. But, here’s the problem – soil ...