Cornbelt 2.0
Sifting through articles on food production, I have stumbled across Matthew Spremulli's thesis project - "reField". Interestingly enough, Matthew's focus for this project revolves around agricultural production, mainly corn, in the midwestern or "cornbelt", sector of the United States (A string of states comprised of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Iowa). Matthew takes a closer look at corn production and determines that the majority of corn produced is a species called "Yellow Dent", which just so happens to contain very little to nil edible nutrients in its raw form, but most be processed via the corn processing plans (illustrated below) in order to change into an edible format. He delves into ethanol energy production as a remedy for the large amounts of by-product created through this process to form a closed loop system. Cradle to cradle.
all images were produced by Matthew
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