Take an unused parking lot in the middle of downtown Atlanta, Georgia on Ponce de Leon Avenue, put five 320-square foot recycled shipping containers tricked out with proprietary technology to reduce overall energy consumption and increase crop yield and then grow three tons of lettuce, hydroponically. This is exactly what a seed funded start up, PodPonics, did. Then they realized they had a contribution to make to the world’s food shortage with urban agriculture.(via Urban Agriculture Redefined, Growing Crops In Recycled Shipping Containers - Forbes) Not what mot people think about when (if?) they think about urban agriculture.
A cool, creative, and simple Agritecture solution. Bringing the farm into the unused spaces of the cities where it is needed the most. I highly recommend reading the original article on Forbes.