“The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.”

Thomas Jefferson

Aardaker mash

There are over 20,000 edible plant species growing on earth, however we derive 60% of our calories from just 3 species and 95% from 30 species. Our reliance on such a limited number of species for almost all our nutrition is unnecessarily precarious.

Aardaia has set about exploring the potential of the thousands of useful plant species and bringing them into our fields and onto our plates. To begin with we are domesticating the aardaker, a protein rich tuber crop.