With their baby steps in farming, brothers and co-founders of Kisano, Brian and Benjamin Zehr want to reduce the world's carbon footprint. "The problem we're trying to solve is: how do we feed the next billion people without destroying the environment?" says Brian. Their solution was Kisano, a vertical, hydroponic farm, a 5,000 sqft space outside of Aurangabad, which uses one per cent of the land and five per cent of the water as field agriculture. If a regular farmer can grow five heads of lettuce in a one square foot field, Kisano can grow 20 heads vertically.

"But the difference is, I have 13 growing cycles in a year versus one outdoors," says Brian. "So, it's actually 260 heads of lettuce per square foot versus five. Our produce is better for people and for the planet."