Charleston native Sam Norton, founding father of Heron Farms, the world’s first indoor vertical saltwater farm, was named on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 2022 record earlier this month.
This 12 months’s record highlighted up-and-coming names from the meals and agriculture sector, together with restaurant homeowners, farmers, packaged-food producers and extra.
Norton, 28, first posed the query that led to Heron Farms‘ creation throughout his graduate college stint on the College of Charleston, the place he was learning for a grasp of science within the environmental research program — what if the 2 biggest issues right now, sea degree rise and greenhouse fuel emissions, may very well be leveraged into sustainable agriculture?
Heron Farms now produces Sea Beans, a superfood wealthy in all types of vitamins, nutritional vitamins and minerals that you will discover in native supermarkets and on high-end menus in Charleston. And now for the primary time in historical past, they’re being produced with out pure daylight or freshwater.
