He Left Corporate America to Build an AI-Powered Farm

Bipen Basnyat spent 20+ years climbing the corporate ladder, working in civil engineering, IT, AI, and robotics. Then he walked away from all of it to start a farm in Howard County, Maryland, growing the South Asian crops his Nepalese heritage was built on. This isn't a hobby farm story. Bipen is an NSF grant recipient building autonomous robots and AI systems to solve the labor crisis facing small farmers across America. And he did it through Howard County's New and Beginning Farmers land program, a model that every county in the country should be studying. In this conversation, we cover: ✅ How to access free farmland through county land programs ✅ Why AI and robotics are the future of small, sustainable farms ✅ How localizing the food system starts with one farmer in your community ✅ The cultural case for growing heritage crops and preserving food wisdom ✅ What a 20-year corporate career teaches you about farming (and what it doesn't) Connect with Bipen at https://asquare.farm Our Teaching Kitchen spans across a family of YouTube channels. Join our email list to make sure you never miss a video: https://www.parkroadstudios.com/teach... To learn more about the Howard County New and Beginning Farmers program, visit: https://hocofarms.com/ The Teaching Kitchen is sponsored by Park Road Studios where we make cooking shows easy! Learn more at https://www.parkroadstudios.com 00:00 From Engineer to Farmer 18:41 Farm Tour 27:40 Robot Demo 32:33 Lessons Learned #sustainablefarming #farmtotable #foodsecurity #urbanfarming #localfarmers #howtostartafarm #smallfarm #heritagecooking #foodismedicine