Polygreens Podcast Episode: 007 - Jim Pantaleo
POLYGREENS PODCAST EPISODE 007
JIM PANTALEO
In mid-2014, Jim made a move away from a 20-year career in technology to indoor vertical farming for food and non-traditional crop production.
Indoor farming (growing plants for food consumption in totally enclosed environments using only LED lights for photosynthesis) plays a part in directly addressing water, land, population, and natural ecosystem challenges borne from current, large-scale (unsustainable and harmful) agricultural practices.
In order to move from tech to indoor farming, He took a full year to immerse himself in the subject, learning as much as he possibly could while directly engaging with the industry's credible difference-makers and organizations.
Over the past six years, he has been a large-scale, commercial operator/indoor farmer, speaker, writer, business developer, investigative C-level start-up team member, plant science nerd, and conference organizer/MC. Jim seeks to create positive change, shift the paradigm of sustainable indoor plant production, and disrupt (and enhance) supply chains to meet the challenges of modern, large-scale agriculture.