Say hello to the purple sweet potato. Grown by as at Spring Lakes Farm, in the Lockyer Valley, SEQLD, Australia, they are kind of like a hidden gem of the valley. The purple sweet potato is denser with a slightly nutty flavour compared to the standard gold (orange flesh) spud. While they are less popular on commercial scale, I do know a lot of locals who love to buy these delicious, purple-skin-white-flash variety. And on an exciting note, we were hit by hail that wiped out the entire farm in November - except for these sweet spuds that were only days old when the hail hit. The fact they survived makes this harvest that little bit sweeter.

Crypto, tokenisation, and stablecoins were everywhere at Davos this year. You could feel it in the rooms: institutions are still learning the language, still asking “wait… so who holds the keys?”, but the mood has shifted. This is no longer treated like a quirky internet hobby. It’s being discussed like infrastructure. Like rails. And that’s exactly why Grow matters. Because if the world is going to move value on-chain, the real flex won’t be memes, it’ll be verified real-world assets. Real production. Real stewardship. Real data. The kind that farmers, ranchers, and supply chains live every day, and the kind Grow turns into something you can trust, trace, and transact. Question: If digital assets are becoming the new global rails, what real-world value do you think should be first in line to move on-chain: energy, food, or carbon? And what are you most excited about with this new asset class?

You can wear the hat, but that doesn’t make you a cowboy. Right now, agriculture is crawling with people who look the part, talk the part, and sell the part, but the only thing they’re actually producing is invoices. Whole careers built on extracting money from farmers and ranchers while calling it “innovation”, “insight”, “support”, “research”, “advisory”, “programmes”. And it’s always the same outcome: The people who feed the country carry the risk. Everyone else gets paid to commentate. That’s what we fight at Grow. If you spend even a little time around Grow, you’ll notice it’s intentional: we don’t endlessly platform gatekeepers and insiders, we don’t hide behind titles or institutions, we don’t make six-figure ranch decisions from a distance, and we don’t apologise for being pioneers and pushing boundaries. Not because research is useless, and not because the messy middle doesn’t matter. But because the system, as it’s currently built, too often fails the producer. A five-year replicated study on a tidy six-by-twelve plot can be interesting, sure. But you don’t run a real operation on tidy plots. You run it inside real constraints: weather, cashflow, labour, input volatility, market pressure, and the brutal reality that you only get one season to get it right. The real researchers are the producers. They’re the ones implementing in the real world. They’re the ones learning in public. They’re the ones paying for mistakes with their own money. They’re the ones adapting fast enough to stay in the game. So instead of asking, “What does the institution say?” Grow asks, “What does the operator know?” We want to hear from the producer who’s actually doing it: What worked when the year went sideways? What didn’t work, and what did it cost? What do you wish you’d done sooner? What are you changing next season, and why? Because if agriculture is going to rebuild trust, rebuild margins, and rebuild resilience, it won’t be led by people selling theories to farmers.

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