These Breakout Entrepreneurs Are The Forbes Under 30 Transforming The Food Industry

These Breakout Entrepreneurs Are The Forbes Under 30 Transforming The Food Industry

When Edy Massih's neighborhood bodega in Greenpoint, Brooklyn closed its doors after 43 years in 2020, he called up the building landlord and asked to become the next tenant. Massih, who had his own catering business for three years prior to the pandemic, was ready to throw himself into the next venture. The 27-year-old's Lebanese market and deli, called Edy's Grocery, is now selling imported groceries from all over the Middle East, and Massih, who was born in Beirut, creates its rotating and seasonal menu of modern Lebanese cuisine. House-made mezze meet fresh cheeses, baked goods, seasonal salads and sandwiches on the menu. The grocery also sells spices, oils, pickled goods, jams and sweets, while packaging in-house daily its own line of nuts, dried fruits, grains, flours, spices and snacks. "I've alwasy known it's my purpose to feed people." Many startups on this year's list are harnessing emerging technology to sustainably feed the world's growing population. Faced with the threat of rising sea levels in his hometown of Charleston, South Carolina, Sam Norton started Heron Farms to prove to his community that they could treat the incoming seawater as a resource instead of a problem. Now running the world's first