The Michael Peres Podcast

A Conversation with Chip Carter


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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

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The Michael Peres PodcastBy Michael Peres