Category: Nutrients to Soil

Introducing Transition Finance with Benedikt and Koen

18th December 2019 koenvanseijen Investor Stories, Nutrients to Soil, Regenerative Agriculture, Short Food Webs, Transition finance 1 Comment

Koen van Seijen and Benedikt Bösel are the co-hosts of this special series dedicated to Transition Finance in regenerative agriculture and food.
In this series Koen is joined by Benedikt Bösel, owner of the Gut&Bösel farm (http://www.gutundboesel.org) and former Venture Capitalist with a focus on environmental technologies and AgTech startups. Follow them on their journey to find out what are the key principles of transition finance for regenerative farmers.

Matteo Mazzola, the potential and opportunity of regenerative agriculture in Italy

28th November 2019 koenvanseijen Diet Change, Farmers First Tech, Nutrient Dense Food, Nutrients to Soil, Regenerative Agriculture, Role of Animals, Short Food Webs 1 Comment

Matteo Mazzola, regenerative farmer and owner, together with his partner Paola Archetti, is running the Iside Farm in Sulzano, on the Iseo Lake.

Ruud Zanders, the revolutionary poultry farmer about the role of animals in feeding the world

23rd April 2019 koenvanseijen Diet Change, Nutrients to Soil, Regenerative Agriculture, Role of Animals, Short Food Webs 0 Comments

An interview with Ruud Zanders of Kipster, diving deep into the question: What is the role of animals in the food system of the future (if any)?

Zach Weiss – Climate change is a symptom of watercycle disturbance and we can fix it

3rd February 2019 koenvanseijen Landscape Design 2.0, Nutrients to Soil, Regenerative Agriculture 4 Comments

Zach Weiss is founder and president of Elemental Ecosystems, created provide an action-oriented process to improve clients’ relationship with their landscape.

David R Montgomery, ditching the plow, covering the soil and diversifying crop rotations

17th February 2018 koenvanseijen Diet Change, Nutrient Dense Food, Nutrients to Soil, Regenerative Agriculture 4 Comments

David R Montgomery is the writer of the books Dirt and Growing a Revolution where he travelled around the world visiting farmers who are growing high quality produce, profitably while growing soil carbon.

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.

Michele Manelli, regenerating Italy’s wine industry

6th September 2017 koenvanseijen Nutrients to Soil, Regenerative Agriculture, Short Food Webs 0 Comments

What is sustainability in wine and where do you start? With Michele Manelli of Salcheto wine we discussed what it means to be a sustainable wine pioneer in Italy and where to start if you start from scratch.

Jesse Solomon, rebuilding the chicken industry from the ground/soil up

21st July 2017 koenvanseijen Nutrients to Soil, Regenerative Agriculture, Short Food Webs 1 Comment

Jesse Solomon is the CEO and founder of Emmer & Co, who is reinventing the chicken industry from the ground up (literally).

Judith D Schwartz – What is possible with soil?

5th June 2017 koenvanseijen Nutrients to Soil, Regenerative Agriculture, Short Food Webs 4 Comments

From the interview with Judith D. Schwarz, a journalist whose recent work looks at soil as a hub for multiple environmental, economic and social challenges-and solutions.

Tony Lovell, regenerate soils with a 100M fund and many cows

7th February 2017 koenvanseijen Nutrient Dense Food, Nutrients to Soil, Regenerative Agriculture, Role of Animals, Transition finance 4 Comments

Tony Lovell is the co-founder and CEO of SLM Partners (slmpartners.com/) an asset manager that acquires and manages rural land on behalf of institutional investors, to scale up regenerative, ecological farming and forestry systems.