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Hydroponic farm in retired shipping container offers fresh lettuce in Casper, Wyoming

March 11, 2017/

It’s not quite spring, and lettuce is sprouting in Casper.

But the romaine isn’t clawing its way to the sun from underground. The butterhead isn’t vulnerable to bugs or other threats. To find the Swiss chard, you have to look up, not down.

That’s because this lettuce is growing in a retired refrigerated shipping container that sits on Matt Powell’s west Casper lawn.

Mandy Burton Star-Tribune staff writer

Full Story: http://trib.com/business/hydroponic-farm-in-retired-shipping-container-offers-fresh-lettuce-in/article_3e70ca81-3117-52d0-8959-762dc3fff372.html

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