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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 pr
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How To Build A Shipping Container Home BUILDINGS New Techniques 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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