Approximately 10,000 years ago, humanity shifted from hunter-gatherer tribes, to systematically developing processes for growing and storing our food, which ignited an Agricultural Revolution the world over. We've innovated irrigation systems, farm machinery, refrigeration, pesticides, seed modification – expanding mankind to cover nearly every piece of land on our planet. But nature wasn't set up for growing single crops across thousands of acres, as well as feeding a population of more than seven and a half billion. Today, 30 million Americans live in food deserts, along with several billion people across the globe, who do not have access to healthy and fresh foods. With many mouths to feed, we grow large volumes of food in concentrated areas, perpetuating a feedback loop of climate and soil degradation. But what if you could take a farm, and locate it anywhere? What if there was a way for crops to be independent of the ecology and resources of a place? What if we could grow food 365 days a year, on a fraction of water we currently use and without pesticides or chemicals? Erik Ellestad began with this idea – improve global health by building a better food system.
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