The future of food is being farmed in a warehouse down the road
The pandemic has forced us to reconsider our supply chains, and the lettuce of tomorrow might be grown in your neighborhood rather than in a neighboring state.
Do you know where your lettuce comes from?
Before the supermarket, I mean. It would've been on a truck from a distribution center, or some other warehouse. It probably flew on a plane from Arizona or Mexico or somewhere else more temperate, where it also was probably processed before it left the farm. Even outside of a pandemic, that's a lot of touch points.
But there's a growing movement to reclaim spaces in cities and towns across the U.S. to grow produce locally, using farms that fit in anywhere they can. Companies like Eden Green Technology and Bowery Farming are aiming to use technology to create a network of distributed microfarms that can supply communities with the produce they need locally.