The Future of Space Farming with WUR Researcher Wieger Wamelink

Picture a future where astronauts harvest fresh lettuce on the Moon and bake bread on Mars. It might sound like sci-fi, but space farming is quickly becoming a reality.This innovative approach to agriculture involves cultivating crops in extraterrest...

Farming in space as student challenge

The participants will have to come up with innovations in food production drawing on research into farming on Mars. The challenge is inspired by ecologist Wieger Wamelink’s research project ‘Food for Mars and the Moon’,...

Farming on Mars takes a ‘Giant Leap’: intercropping can be a game-changing method

Scientists from Wageningen University & Research have achieved a remarkable milestone in space agriculture with a pioneering study showing that intercropping – the practice of growing different crops close together – can significant...

Mealworms on a Martian diet

The Food for Mars and Moon project, led by ecologist and exobiologist Wieger Wamelink, studies how we might cultivate food on Mars and the moon. Until now, this study focused exclusively on crops, based on the assumption that the future inhabitants of Ma...