Cheddar gets a look at Curiosity Stream's 'The History of Food.'

Cheddar Reveals

The Pioneers of Urban Farming

alright, industrialized in processed foods have largely dominated the last century. Now, the question is, what's next pioneers in urban farming are onto something and we go, we don't have to go far to see what is possible, curiosity stream finds out more in its original series. The history of Food take a look. By 2050, it is projected that 70% of the world's 9.7 billion people will live in cities. So who will be growing our food throughout the world? Hungry young entrepreneurs are tackling this problem by engineering solutions for the future. They are blurring the lines between the rural and urban approach to food. New york city. Ask any new yorker, this is the center of the universe, an archetype of all things metropolitan, even weeds struggled to grow in this tough environment, but a new revolution is blossoming here. What we hope at square roots is that we're really unleashing this new generation of entrepreneurs and these amazing farmers, square roots in Brooklyn is planting the seeds of a big idea right here in an industrial parking lot. Business people like Tobias are trying to change how people get their produce. People want local food and with 70% of the world's population to live in cities. By 2050, entrepreneurs will need to find a way to satisfy urban demand. Square roots is really an attempt to bring local real food to everyone today. Most of us are at the mercy of what we call the industrial food system, which ships in high calorie, low nutrient food, often from thousands of miles away. We've lost connection with that farmer. What we want to do at square root to start to grow food right in the middle of the neighborhood, next to the people that are going to eat the food. We sat inside of a 320 square foot shipping container. Right now, it's a standard 40-foot shipping container. This was probably on a boat to china two years ago, we've been able to refurbish it and turn it into a farm and we're growing vertically and then racking our fields vertically, which means we're essentially growing food in three dimensions instead of two dimensions, were probably growing about the equivalent of a two acre farm's worth of food in here right now. Square Roots is a collection of 10 shipping container farms that house over 50 different products including kale basil, mint and even strawberries. The curiosity original series, The history of food is available to watch everywhere you get curiosity stream one more top tier content on science, nature, history and the environment will stay curious and head over to curiosity stream dot com to sign up today