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How To Build A Shipping Container Home
More and more creative contractors are using shipping containers to build innovative homes. And in recent years, the rugged 8-ft. by 40-ft. steel boxes have also been showing up as farm shops and other farm buildings.
Containers are used for hydroponics, aquaponics, mushroom farming, and livestock and poultry production. They’re excellent for food production because the growing environment, including temperature, humidity, carbon dioxide, light, moisture and nutrients, can be controlled.
A Wyoming farm has a multi-use structure with 14 shipping containers. It provides separately controlled environments for producing fruit trees, vegetables, tilapia fish and mushrooms. Additional containers are devoted to offices, living quarters, a conference room, a commercial kitchen, workshops, and RV or machine storage.
Container Home Hub, a website/blog headquartered in Texas, describes itself as “Your #1 resource when it comes to container home living. It’s where you’ll find the most up-to-date information on buying, selling, building, and living the container-home life.” The site provides container home costs, floor plans, financing, time required for construction, design software programs, and lists containers for sale by state throughout the U.S. Shipping container home builders are also identified.
For people interested in building a container home or work environment but unsure of how to start the process, the Containerhomehub.com website offers a program for $38 that includes a 154-page eBook, step-by-step instructions for everything from land acquisition to move-in day, and 80+ container home floor plans.
The Discover Container website offers photos and descriptions of container farms around the world: a strawberry farm in France; a vegetable farm in Beijing, China; a biogas farm in Sweden that recycles food wastes into plant nutrients; a 14-container farm in Canada where plants grow to maturity in a serpentine chain system that moves through all 14 containers; and a Colorado mushroom operation that produces 300 lbs. of oyster, shitake, lion’s mane and king oyster mushrooms per week.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Container Home Hub (www.containerhomehub.com); or Discover Containers (www.discovercontainers.com)


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2024 - Volume #48, Issue #2