The Big Idea: T.K. Rex

In science fiction, everything can be rethought — including one of the most foundational aspects of human civilization, agriculture. T.K. Rex gives it a go in The Wildcraft Drones, with an exciting take on the future of food production… and how we all might live because of it. T.K. REX: The world of The Wildcraft Drones began on a train. I’d just finished my first ecology class, I was watching endless farms go by, and it was 2015, so drones were new and mostly in the news as war machines. I knew that industrial agriculture caused major problems for watersheds and biodiversity, and I knew that forests were being planted for carbon sequestration. All these ingredients simmered on that quiet, two-day ride, and over Amtrak coffee and hot dogs, I came up with an idea. What if forests could replace farms? Lots of trees make food. But I wasn’t thinking about orchards. I was thinking about biodiverse, multi-story forests where herbs grew in the underbrush and birds nested in ancient oaks. The…