There's some concepts floating around that in the long term, the earth as a whole may be better off getting food from intensive agriculture that is maximized for efficiency, versus using water and nitrogen on smaller scale or boutique farming setups, or for example in this case using energy to produce offseason food outside their ideal/economized environment. You could argue perhaps the shipping reduction by having it right here is better, or that it's not enough to make up for the losses in yields from more productive farming. All that is just a thought experiment anyways since this is a simple shipping container demonstration/education setup basically, so I don't have any particular problem with it.

As an educational thing it's fine, but there's no shortage of arable land in this country that we need to produce food within cities themselves, and urban agriculture is, for now, far less of a priority than jobs, housing, healthcare, or any number of other initiatives. The money and time/energy spent on this could be far better used doing something else.