Drought conditions, limited resources and supply chain problems have stretched the global food market thin, but a Colorado business is building a self-contained system to grow fresh produce anytime, anywhere.
SEDALIA, Colo. — From the inside of a shipping container, Jake Savageau is part of a team working to solve a worldwide problem.
"We can go into, say a community in Ghana, and we can put five of these, 50 of them, 100 of them," Savageau said."We can run them completely off solar, off-grid and have a water source. So, in countries where there's no infrastructure." The grow cycle is independent of the weather outside. Software controls the climate inside the container, allowing fresh food to grow year round.
"We're talking to cattle ranchers that have 500 to 5,000 head of cattle," Savageau said."They're having to transport all that feed, hay — whatever they use from — point A to point B, and it takes a lot of energy."