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Start-up in the spotlight: Hippotainer 🌿 Wageningen University graduates Tijmen Blok and Jort Maarseveen have developed the Hippotainer, a vertical farm housed in a shipping container, designed to grow fresh vegetables in challenging environments. A shipping container is ideal for flexibility; it can easily be put on a truck. Once on location, it can be deployed swiftly, requiring no buildings or permits. They constructed their first prototype with intern Joël van Schoonhoven. Blok says the yields from the first attempts at growing leafy greens were enormous using minimal water and energy. In June 2023, they successfully deployed their first Hippotainer in Ukraine. Ukrainians have lacked nutrients and vitamins since the Russian invasion, so the very first Hippotainer made its way to Ivano-Frankivsk. They offered training and employment opportunities to a team of refugees. It is currently in full production in Ukraine providing local markets and restaurants with lettuce. 🤝 💡 Their container can provide solutions in places where conditions to grow vegetables are unfavourable due to supply issues, water shortages or poor soil quality. Not just areas in crisis but also islands, northern regions with a lack of daylight, or arid, warm regions. That's where Blok and Maarseveen see opportunities. #hippotainer #impact #verticalfarming