Food Makers: it is time to go to New York!
After our Californian experience, last May in San Mateo, next weekend (23rd and 24th of September), the Future Food Zone will be live again, but on the East Coast this time. Here a quick journey through our beloved Food Makers.
Ethan Frisch is an activist entrepreneur around issues of food innovation and fair supply chains. Starting as pastry chef he has founded a spice company, Burlap & Barrel. Burlap & Barrel sources unique, beautiful directly from small spice farms around the world. Ethan was also the co-founder and Executive Chef of Guerrilla Ice Cream, a nonprofit politically-inspired ice cream cart.
Vivian T. Lee is a graduate student in Parson’s Design and Technology program and creator of milk’Em. milk’Em is a physical play experience that is inspired by the Olive You comic. This is a commentary on the mistreatment of factory farm animals and the current state of food production.
Stephen Ritz is an award winning teacher, and he is Founder of Green Bronx Machine. He and his students have grown over 40,000 pounds of vegetables en route to outstanding personal and academic performance. Green Bronx Machine is building and featuring an onsite vertical farm with Tower Garden technology, allowing to grow food anywhere regardless of seasonality, saving 90 % water and space.
Bloomengine is a smart gardening device to help you grow flowers from seed to bloom indoors. With the aid of its lighting, water, and circulation air, it creates a suitable environment for flowers. It is still at the prototype phase and the team is more than excited to share their “flowers grower” with you at Maker Faire.
Other interesting project around sustainability is the one conceived by Elaine.
Elaine Kung is a New Yorker and environmental engineer who graduated from the MIT Media Lab, where she was involved in the first stages of the Open Ag project. She was the creator of +Farm, a DIY, open source, modular hydroponic vertical farm (check it out here!) that enables everyone to build a small farm at home.
Interested in hacking and 3D printing? Well, we have some interesting projects for you!
Evan Weinstein is a junior at the University of Pennsylvania majoring in Mechanical Engineering. His love of engineering began at an early age with the Lego Mindstorms RCX kit and he now works in an additive manufacturing lab at school. At Maker faire New York he will introduce us his new creation: Cocoa Press. Cocoa Press is a 3D printer that prints in chocolate.
Edwin Murichu is a young maker passioned about 3D printing as well. “I like to experiment and printing with different materials.” he says. For the New York Maker Faire he designed and built a chocolate 3D printer that shapes chocolate instead of plastic.
Luis Rodriguez is a 33-year-old Spanish creator and founder of 3DigitalCooks. 3DigitalCooks is a studio focused on 3D printing food, and exploring the concept with several activities based on education, research, and consulting. Luis believes in 3D printing power to impact the way we relate to food. His journey started from a New York Maker Faire: he was showing off how to print yogurt and jelly when he realised that this simple food processing was enabling him to connect with people in an extreme, profound and easy way. Since then, he never stopped 3D printing food!
CentriSeed Innovations project provides innovative, sustainable solutions to communities locally and abroad, while developing the professional and interpersonal skills of the project’s students. As part of their activity, the group developed the Bike Generator. The goal of the project is to demonstrate the conversion of mechanical energy to electrical, and a model of its Restorative Floating Garden, featuring floating plants that fight algal blooms. The final product is a bike generator circuit and a lighting box; the box has four different types of lightbulbs connected, each having their own level of efficiency and on/off switch. As people peddle, lights are turned on in order of decreasing efficiency, so that the rider feel the difference in peddling difficulty to meet the power demands.
Victoria Gregory and Gabe Alba designed, developed, and manufactured their latest dorm-room invention called Coffee Cookie. Coffee Cookie is a portable, rechargeable device that keeps your to-go coffee hot.
Matthew Oswald is an innovator, a maker and a creator. He says that being a maker is a “subversive act”. Shifting from consumer to producer in any way is its own reward. “We can yell out to the world that we’re going to build it ourselves and we’re going to share exactly how we did it with everyone.” he says. Matthew firmly believe in the DIY approach and for this reason he is part of our Future Food Zone in Maker Fair New York. He will present Mugsy, the world’s first hackable, customizable, dead simple, robotic coffee maker.
Christopher Coccagna is a certified Tea Specialist and a tea super-fan since he was young, Christopher always loved how tea brought people together and how community thrives over a cup. Today, he is seen shaking up tea with his completely natural approach to blending.
T-WE TEA is his SF based hand made tea company: Chris and his team source ingredients responsibly and purely, they create their own formulations and hand blend everything. Swing by our Future Food Zone (Zone 3 in Maker Depot) to check them out!
What are you waiting for? Join us at the Future Food Zone (Zone 3 Maker Depot)!
