Tag: organic

Soil Builders, saving harvests with small holders farmers and connecting local farms to city folk in the UK

18th February 2022 koenvanseijen Farmers First Tech, Regenerative Agriculture, Short Food Webs, Soil Builders 0 Comments

In this episode we hear from Wolfgang Mittmann, founder and CEO of Savings Grains, how they are helping smallholder farmers save their harvests, fulfil their potential, and make sure that no good food goes to waste. Also Pete Russell shares more about his company, Ooooby, a social enterprise that connects local farmers to city folk through an organic fruit and veg box subscription service.

Paul McMahon on building a 250M climate positive portfolio of tree crops in Europe

14th December 2021 koenvanseijen Farmers First Tech, Investor Stories, Ownership, Regenerative Agriculture 0 Comments

A check in interview with Paul McMahon, co-founder of SLM Partners, to discuss their current focus and investment strategies in Australia, USA, and Europe. 

Shameek Chakravarty, how zero budget natural farming is taking off in India

7th May 2020 koenvanseijen Farmers First Tech, Regenerative Agriculture, Short Food Webs 2 Comments

Shameek Chakravarty is the cofounder of Farmizen, a company based in Bangalore, India, on which everyone can rent mini-plots of farmland close to the city.

Phil Graves on how Patagonia is investing its $75 million fund into regenerative agriculture

29th October 2019 koenvanseijen Diet Change, Investor Stories, Nutrient Dense Food, Regenerative Agriculture, Short Food Webs 10 Comments

Why regenerative ORGANIC certification is key for the future of agriculture? The answer in the interview with Phil Graves, head of Patagonia’s venture fund Tin Shed Ventures.

Brandon Welch, Perennial fund, investing and profit sharing to get farmers to organic and beyond

13th July 2019 koenvanseijen Regenerative Agriculture, Transition finance 1 Comment

Transition finance is key to help many more farmers and growers start the transition to organic and regenerative. The Perennial Fund is going to experiment with a new concept!

Scaling organic regenerative dairy and organic kiwis in New Zealand with Geoff Burke

21st December 2018 koenvanseijen Regenerative Agriculture, Transition finance 0 Comments

An interview with Geoff Burke, co-founder of Agro-Ecological, a New Zealand based impact investment manager and advisory firm focused on farmland, on how to increase the impact investing in regenerative agriculture in New Zealand.

Shameek Chakravarty, left Amazon to start a real life FarmVille in rural India

21st January 2018 koenvanseijen Farmers First Tech, Regenerative Agriculture, Short Food Webs 2 Comments

Shameek Chakravarty is the cofounder of Farmizen based in Bangalore India, on Farmizen everyone can rent mini-plots of farmland close to the city.

Osvaldo de Falco, connecting Italian organic fruit farmers directly to consumers

8th December 2017 koenvanseijen Ecosystem Services Payments, Regenerative Agriculture, Short Food Webs 1 Comment

How do we pay a fair price to our farmers? If not they can’t take care of our land. An interview with Osvaldo de Falco, co-founder of Biorfarm, a platform which connects Italian organic fruit farmers directly to the end customers, while paying the farmers a fair price.

Liz Carlisle, how lentils changed a region and started an organic company 30 years ago

10th September 2017 koenvanseijen Farmers First Tech, Nutrient Dense Food, Nutrients to Soil, Regenerative Agriculture, Short Food Webs 1 Comment

An interview with Liz Carlisle, writer of the Lentil Underground, the amazing story about how five farmers created one of the first organic companies in the US.

Thekla Teunis and Gijs Boers, what African regenerative farmers can teach us

29th April 2017 koenvanseijen Landscape Design 2.0, Regenerative Agriculture, Short Food Webs 4 Comments

An interview with Thekla Teunis and Gijs Boers, cofounders of Grounded. We discuss how regenerative agriculture really works in practice on the ground in Southern Africa and how is working with farmers in Zambia and South Africa by really really listening to them.