Food Planet Future

Robert Dash is an educator, naturalist and photographer whose work features the complex textures and patterns of micro nature. His photographs have been published by National Geographic, TIME, Lenswork, and Buzzfeed. They have appeared in galleries and juried shows in the US and internationally. He was shortlisted for the Visura/UPI Grant for Storytelling On Climate Change, 2018. His images traveled as part of the international outdoor exhibition The FENCE. In 2017, Dash authored On An Acre Shy of Eternity, Micro Landscapes at the Edge, which won the Nautilus Book Awards Gold for Photography and Arts, and Best of Self Published. In 2016 he presented the widely-viewed TEDx lecture, "The Intercourse of Nature." His current traveling exhibition about food and climate change is entitled "Food for Thought/ Micro Views of Sustenance: Threats and Prospects."

The Royal Geographical Society's Geographical Magazine featured Food Plant Future on the front cover titled Future of Food: stunning images about farming in a warming world, and inside an 8-page article titled: A story of survival: "Amid these issues, Robert Dash's Food Planet Future stands out as a captivating journey into art and environmental advocacy." - Geographical Magazine

• FOREWORD, Thor HansonPREFACE, Robert DashINTRODUCTION, Robert DashANATOMY OF A MONTAGEPERILS AND PROMISEAGAVE Desert Agroforestry and Carbon CaptureAGAVE 2.0 The Billion Agave ProjectASPARAGUS Perennial VegetablesAVOCADO New Cultivar, and Searching for Sustainable FruitAZOLLA A Floating Fern That Once Removed Half of All Atmospheric CarbonAZOLLA 2.0 High Protein, Affordable Livestock FeedBAMBOO The Plant With Countless UsesBEAN “Poor Man’s Protein”, Climate Friendly FoodBEAN 2.0 New Seed Bank With 38,000 Bean TypesBIOCHAR Ancient Practices Build Microbial Hotels in SoilBLUEBERRY Crop Waste Products and a Circular EconomyBUCKWHEAT Restoring Food Security in Remote VillagesBUMBLE BEE Indispensable Pollinators With Mushroom FriendsCACAO Intercropping With Other SpeciesCACAO 2.0 Reclaiming Degraded LandsCATTLE The Great Meat DebateCATTLE 2.0 Carbon Capture and the Practice of SilvopastureCELERY Strategies to End Food WasteCHESTNUT Return From OblivionCHIA Healthy Seeds and Plant Chemistry TreasuresCHIA 2.0 Levity Is Its Own Kind of NutrientCOCONUT Making Use of Crop WasteCORN and Crop Wild RelativesCOVER CROPS Fava Beans, Green Manure, and Soy AlternativesCOVER CROPS 2.0 Keep Soil Covered, Keep Roots in the GroundCRICKET AND PEA PROTEIN Climate Benefits of Vegetable and Insect ProteinFLAX Plants That Feed and Clothe UsFOREST GARDENS Borage and Multi-Layered GardensFOREST GARDENS 2.0 Senegalese Forest Gardens Reclaim Desert LandsGINKGO STOMATA Climate Stories on a Geologic ScaleHAZELNUTS and AgroforestryHAZELNUTS 2.0 Perennial Woody Crops Versus AnnualsHEMP Plant ProteinHEMP 2.0 Fast-Growing Building InsulationHOPS Climate Stress, Beer, BiotechINDIGENOUS FOODS Camas Lily: A Hidden TreasureINDIGENOUS FOODS 2.0 Cultural Burning PracticesJAPANESE KNOTWEED and Invasive SpeciesJAPANESE KNOTWEED 2.0 Invasive Species as Climate AssetsKALE The Mixed Climate Record of OrganicsKELP Restoring Great Undersea ForestsKELP 2.0 Nutritional and Climate Benefits of Kelp FarmsKIWIFRUIT Green, Gold, and ContestedLACE LICHEN Medicinal Uses, Air Quality IndicatorLAVENDER Perennial BenefitsLETTUCE Breeding Resilient VarietiesLETTUCE 2.0 Microgreens and Hyperlocal, Nutrient-Dense VegetablesMILLET Ancient, Drought-Tolerant FoodMILLET 2.0 Keeping Village Food Traditions AliveMUSHROOM MYCELIUM Extraordinary From Every AngleOLIVE Crop Migrations Prompted by Climate StressPLANKTON Tiny Plants That Produce Half The World’s OxygenPLANKTON 2.0 Dust, Diatoms, and Carbon CapturePOLLINATORS Insect Population Challenges and Biomimicry InnovationsPOTATO Crop Wild Relatives Increase Resilience in PeruPOTATO 2.0 A Long Tradition of Potato GuardiansQUINOA Ancient Foods in a Modern WorldQUINOA 2.0 Bringing Healthy Foods to the Wide WorldRICE An Unexpected Methane FactoryRICE 2.0 Threatened by Salt, but Options ExistROCK DUST and Carbon CaptureROCK DUST 2.0 Turning Mining Waste Into Locked-Up CarbonROOT CROPS Carrots and Crop Wild RelativesROOT CROPS 2.0 Agrivoltaic Solar GardensSALICORNIA The Promise of Saltwater AgricultureSALMON Alternatives to Destructive AquacultureSALMON 2.0 Dam Removal and River RewildingSOIL The Keys to the KingdomSOIL 2.0 Decay is a Steamy AffairSOY BEAN Powerful Laws Help To Reduce Soy-Related DeforestationSOY BEAN 2.0 Prairie Strips, Water Retention, and Reducing Dead ZonesSUNFLOWER Crop Wild Relatives and Perennial WannabesTOMATOES and Their Crop Wild RelativesTOMATOES 2.0 570 Million Smallholders Grow 30% of Our FoodTREES WITH EDIBLE LEAVES The Promise of Tree VegetablesTREES WITH EDIBLE LEAVES 2.0 Moringa’s Multivitamins Grow on TreesTURKEY TAIL MUSHROOM Immune Support and Reduced Wildfire ThreatsWHEAT and Other Crops Move Towards the PolesWHEAT 2.0 Kernza®, and the Dream of Perennial GrainsARTIST’S PROCESSBIBLIOGRAPHYABOUT THE AUTHOR