#12: Aaron Niederhelman on the Future of Indoor Farming

Forming the Future

Aaron is a life-long advocate of healthier, cleaner food and was selected as a 2015 Eisenhower Fellow. During his fellowship he spent several months traveling through Europe and the Middle East to gain insight from the front-lines of an ever shrinking world where natural resource and water management have long been tightly linked to that region’s health, economy and national security. Aaron speaks and writes often of the unique opportunity for the population densities of the Northeast US to establish a new benchmark for domestic food-systems through promoting environmental and human health as the underpinning to rectify an addiction to cheap food. With a focus on collaborating with others to promote greater good, Aaron also co-founded the Agrarian fund; he hosts ‘Sourcing Matters’ a podcast focused on regenerative agriculture and future food systems; and he participates on numerous nonprofit boards ranging from food security to climate change to social responsibility. The Forming the Future podcast is hosted by Rusty Williams. A founder of multiple technologies companies and pioneer in the development of online communities and social media, Rusty has also worked with Triumph Modular and explores the intersection of technology, physical space and smarter things.