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Diaspora Co – Building a Better, Equitable Spice Trade

Creating an equitable spice trade by disrupting an outdated trade system and putting money and power into the hands of Indian farmers.

Savannah Bee Company — Helping to Save the Bees

Helping to save the bees by building hives, pollinating flowers, powering food supply, and spreading beauty.

Uncommon Ground — America’s First Certified Organic Rooftop Farm

Founded by Helen and Mike Cameron, Uncommon Ground is America’s first certified organic rooftop farm.

Camilla Marcus, chef and restaurateur based in New York.

Camilla Marcus – New York Chef and Restaurateur

Marcus is part of the leadership team of the Independent Restaurant Coalition, a lobbying group trying to save the independent restaurant industry.

Inside urban vertical farm, Badia Farms, founded by Omar Al Jundi

Badia Farms – The UAE’S First Urban Vertical Farm

CEO Omar Al Jundi built Badia Farms in 2016, a Dubai-based vertical farm solving food insecurity in the Middle East.

Osnat Michaeli, Guy Galonska, co-founders of Infarm, a vertical farming company.

Infarm – Pairing Vertical Farming with IoT Technologies

Infarm, a Berlin-based startup brings vertical farming to the heart of cities, offering an alternative food system that is resilient, transparent, and affordable.

Rob Laing, the CEO of Farm.One, a sustainable farming business

Farm.One – A NYC Sustainable Farming Business

Farm.One, a high-tech hydroponic sustainable farming business, started in NYC, growing to multiple cities across the globe. The company grows fresh microgreens, herbs & edible flowers.

Inside Plenty, a sustainable farming business.

Plenty – An Indoor Vertical Farming Company

Since its founding in 2013, Plenty’s high-tech indoor vertical farms have provided fresh, local produce to communities and with minimal environmental impact.

Produce growing inside the vertical farm, Aero Farms.

AeroFarms – A Mission-Driven Vertical Farm

AeroFarms – a New Jersey-based indoor agriculture company on a mission to increase access to flavorful and healthier food across the globe.

Portrait of Blake Shook, founder of Desert Creek Honey, a company creating sustainable raw honey.

Desert Creek Honey – Sustainable and Raw Texas Honey

How Blake Shook took his childhood passion for bees and turned it into a thriving ethical, sustainable, and raw honey business.

Portrait of a woman holding baked bread.

The Women’s Bakery – Empowering Women in East Africa

During her time volunteering with the Peace Corps, Markey Culver established The Women’s Bakery as a way to raise employment opportunities for women in Rwanda.

Aerial view of dolphins swimming in the ocean.

Bamboo Sushi – Pioneer in Sustainable Sushi Restaurants

In 2008, Kristofor Lofgren, president of Sustainable Restaurant Holdings Inc., created Bamboo Sushi: the world’s first certified sustainable sushi restaurant.

Image of The Recipe Hunters founders, Anthony Morano and Leila Elamine.

The Recipe Hunters – Sharing Heritage Recipes

Anthony Morano and Leila Elamine founded The Recipe Hunters to document their global travels, discovering heritage recipes, promoting sustainable food, while supporting cultural pluralism.

Portrait of Massimo Bottura, a chef creating equitable food systems.

Massimo Bottura – Chef Creating Equitable Food Systems

Massimo Bottura’s restaurant, Osteria Francescana, is considered the best restaurant in Italy and one of the most influential in the world.

Urbani Truffles – A Heritage Italian Truffle Company

Founded in 1852, Urbani Truffles has cultivated a great heritage of sourcing quality truffles that are a valuable resource on a local and global scale.

Photograph of farm, at Cypress Grove Chevre, where humane certified goat cheese is produced.

Cypress Grove Chevre – Humane Certified Goat Cheese

Cypress Grove is an international, award-winning goat cheese success that promotes humane goat dairying.

Landscape photo with yellow flowers in a field.

Rigoni di Asiago – Organic, Vegan Honey and Spreads

One of the first certified organic companies within Europe, this family-owned business based in Northern Italy is on a mission to share their low waste and vegan honey and spreads.

Table set up outdoors, for a farm to table experience through Outstanding in the Field.

Outstanding in the Field – Farm-to-Table at the Source

Outstanding in the Field, founded by Jim Denevan, holds “traveling feasts” that bring farm-table-meal events in all 50 U.S. states and 10 countries.

Rumi Spice – Ethically Sourced Spices From Afghanistan

Rumi Spice, Kimberly Jung’s socially responsible enterprise, connects Afghan farmers to global markets and American consumers to ethically sourced spices.