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At The Plant in Chicago, small businesses are tinkering with sustainable food production.This former meatpacking plant hosts a brewery, a coffee roaster, farms,
The Plant belonged to one of Chicago's dirtiest industries. Now it's home to a beekeeper, a coffee roaster, indoor farms, and algae laboratories.
The Plant belonged to one of Chicago's dirtiest industries. Now it's home to a beekeeper, a coffee roaster, indoor farms, and algae laboratories.
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Share it When Mars Inc. announced in 2016 that it would remove all artificial colors from its human food products in the next five years, Leonard Lerer saw an opportunity. Lerer, a medical doctor who had been an investor in food tech companies, had previously backed a startup that extracted a natural blue color from spirulina algae. And he had done the math: If Mars wanted to make its M&Ms a natural blue, Lerer estimated it would take five or six times all the spirulina in the world at that time. The candy company immediately found the color change to be a big challenge. Almost five year...