<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/_dev-testing/2026-08-21/magazine/fall-2020/vertical-farming-company-grows-fast.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>Vertical Farming Company Grows Fast</title><excerpt>Former Westmont tennis standout John Bertram ’14 and his brother, Samuel, have started a company with the lofty goal of bringing food security to the world’s impoverished populations. During Christmas 2016, after discovering there were 1.1 billion malnourished people at the start of this century, the two came up with an idea for automated vertical farming. Hence the company’s name, OnePointOne, which also serves as a reminder of what they’re aiming to solve. “The human race also needs to produce more food between now and 2050 than the total amount of food produced by humanity up to now,” John says.</excerpt><author/><image>
            
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