Whether it’s on Mars or at the kitchen table, entrepreneur Bart Womack wants to change what and how you eat. But the CEO and founder of next-generation farming startup Eden Grow Systems is seeking crowd funders to help feed the venture.
The company evokes images of a garden paradise on Earth. But the idea behind the Houston-based NASA spinoff came from a more pragmatic view of the world. Womack’s company sells indoor food towers, self-contained, modular plant growth systems built on years of research by NASA scientists looking for the best way to feed astronauts in space.
The company has launched a $1.24 million regulated crowdfunding campaign to raise the money it needs to scale and expand manufacturing outside the current location in Washington state. Additionally, the U.S. Air Force recently chose Eden as a food source for the U.S. Space Force base on remote Ascension Island in the Atlantic Ocean, Womack tells InnovationMap. Another project with Space Center Houston is also in the works.
“We want to be the government and DOD contractor for these kind of next-generation farming systems,” he says. The Houston-based company includes former NASA scientists, like recently hired Dr. L. Marshall Porterfield of Purdue University as an innovation advisor.
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