The conversation
Michael Peres sits down with Chip Carter — creator and host of Where the Food Comes From — to explore one of the most fascinating questions of our time: How will we grow food in space? After thousands of farm visits and decades in media, Chip’s journey has taken him from small-town farming roots to standing on a NASA launch pad — and now into conversations about feeding astronauts on the Moon and beyond. Together, they dive into lunar soil experiments, zero-gravity farming, the Artemis program, and what it really takes to grow lettuce where DoorDash doesn’t deliver.
In this episode, you’ll learn
- How Chip went from wanting to “get out of farming” to telling agriculture’s untold tech stories
- Why modern farming is powered by robotics, AI, drones, and blockchain
- How scientists successfully grew plants in actual lunar regolith
- The challenge of watering crops in zero-gravity
- Why the Moon is becoming a launch platform for deep space exploration
- How bio-unit lunar farms could create breathable atmosphere and grow food on the Moon
- What growing plants in space reveals about life beyond Earth
Chip Carter is the creator and host of Where the Food Comes From, a veteran journalist turned agricultural storyteller now working with NASA to explore how we’ll grow food on the Moon and beyond.
