Guest profile

Chip Carter

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.
Chip Carter
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Biography

About Chip Carter

Chip Carter is the creator and host of Where the Food Comes From, a television and digital series highlighting the untold science and technology behind modern agriculture. Raised in a farming family, Chip began his career far from the fields as a syndicated columnist for the Chicago Tribune and Washington Post before transitioning into video journalism. His passion for storytelling eventually brought him back to agriculture — this time to showcase its technological revolution, from robotics and AI to blockchain. After thousands of farm visits, Chip is now collaborating with NASA to explore how humanity will grow food in space, including experiments with lunar soil and future Moon colonies. His work bridges farming, innovation, and the future of human survival beyond Earth.
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February 24, 2026
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.
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