Brooklyn urban farmer Kimbal Musk talks food, deflects his brother Elon Musk’s bad press
While one Musk was on the verge of announcing the first private passenger to travel to the moon while separately fending off a lawsuit accusing him of defaming a British diver, another Musk was talking about growing basil plants at an indoor garden in Brooklyn.
Kimbal Musk, who serves on the board of older brother Elon Musk’s companies Tesla and SpaceX, spoke at a breakfast in New York Monday about the promise of urban farming and his mission to bring locally-sourced food to restaurants and provide gardens to schoolchildren around the country.
But although he has made a name for himself in the food industry building a chain of restaurants and planting 500 “learning gardens” in schools nationwide, he still finds himself deflecting questions about his billionaire brother.