 Globally, one-third of all the food that we produce does not make it to the person. Our current food system does a really good job of growing large volumes of food. What it doesn't do a very good job of is delivering high-quality, nutritious product to all the people on the planet that need it. My name is Eric Ellistad and I'm the founder and CEO of Local Roots. Our mission is to improve global health by building a better food system. We're definitely creating a new generation of farmers. I got into Local Roots because I was really interested to see what California was doing about the drought and how we could secure our food. So Local Roots uses 97% less water than outdoor agriculture. We have a main reservoir in the middle of the farm. These are our NFT channels and the water will run through. The plants will absorb what they need and then I'll get back into our sump tank, get cleaned out and then go back into the reservoir to repeat. In our controlled environment farms, we have custom designed lighting fixtures that allow us to tune the wavelength of light to be exactly what the plants want and need. By doing that we can produce things at the same cost and of the same type in the same location year round. I think it's going to attract a lot of young people who might not have ever thought about being farmers but now can incorporate their technology background and their interest in robotics and their interest in controlled environments as well as agronomy and botany. We're growing here without any soil or sunlight. All of our nutrients get dosed into our water system. And no need for pesticides or herbicides. The amount of yields that we can produce is equivalent to the amount that you could grow in five acres of farm. Local Roots came to me for the request of Eric Oboholser who's the owner of Tender Greens and we sat down, I tried their product and I was basically blown away by it. We used local Roots Baby Kelt for our faro salad, faro and cranberry salad and then we also used a butter lettuce for just a simple butter lettuce salad. Their philosophy is in line with what we do here at Tender Greens and it just was like a match made in heaven. We're trying to get a lot of local Roots farms into local communities where people can have affordable food that's locally grown. For each community to have a farm right in their own neighborhood I think that's a great concept. Where you're reducing the environmental footprint that agricultural places on the environment and doing it in a more responsible way. If you like what you saw please click the subscribe button and leave a comment below. Thanks for watching!