‘Container’ Gardening
Jan 11, 2019
3 minutes
By Jennifer Albert and Dalia Martinez
nside three shipping containers on the campus of The Citadel, a military college in South Carolina, cadets are learning how to grow lettuce crops in a controlled indoor “farm” setting, producing organic produce in an environment that can withstand unpredictable weather conditions and disease. The cadets’ hands-on education comes from The Citadel Sustainability Project, in which the first container functions as a hydroponic cultivation system for lettuce crops, the second container is a
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