Columbus team is composed of seven members, all Master students of Wageningen University. Together, we combine backgrounds from Biology, Nature Conservation, Organic Agriculture, Earth and Environment, and Plant Sciences. This multidisciplinarity has enabled us to look at a design from different perspectives and provided us with many different insights on ecological systems, plant systems and agricultural systems. Our academic education allowed us to reflect on and identify technicalities and knowledge needed to effectively develop our project. However, for the technical details we had to rely on experts, mainly from Wageningen University. The university is a leading institution in terms of sustainable agriculture and environmental sciences and therefore offers a large choice of experts in those disciplines. We have seeked the help of some of them for the first phase of the design, and  they could further help us upgrading the project to a  practical stage. We also thought of using the Biomimicry Global Design Challenge mentor resources. However in the given time allocated to us for the project, the mentor hasn't been able to answer our questions yet.