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 Lightfoot on how carbon negative foods are taking off and why now

15th February 2022 koenvanseijen Diet Change, Ecosystem Services Payments, Investor Stories, Nutrient Dense Food, Regenerative Agriculture, Role of Animals 1 Comment

Paul Lightfoot is the writer of the Negative Foods newsletter, which covers the foods that have carbon neutral or carbon negative footprints, and the technologies, people and companies that bring negative foods to market, food brands that have carbon negative footprints. Paul is the founder of BrightFarms and an investor in the space.

Shaun Paul on building a regenerative business movement that gives 90% of the wealth to local indigenous peoples

8th February 2022 koenvanseijen Ecosystem Services Payments, Farmers First Tech, Ownership, Regenerative Agriculture 1 Comment

Shaun Paul, Ejido Verde’s CEO, joins us to discuss the astounding economical and environmental impacts of the pine resin industry not only to local indigenous peoples, but also to the world.

Stephen Hohenrieder on investing in mature food companies and help them go further and deeper

1st February 2022 koenvanseijen Investor Stories, Ownership, Regenerative Agriculture, Transition finance 0 Comments

Stephen Hohenrieder, founder of Grounded Capital Partners, joins us to discuss a different approach to capital—by treating the symptoms of an unhealthy system rather than incentivizing them.

Nicolette Hahn Niman – Eating less and better meat is not the solution

25th January 2022 koenvanseijen Diet Change, Nutrient Dense Food, Regenerative Agriculture, Role of Animals, Short Food Webs 2 Comments

A wide ranging conversation with Nicolette Hahn Niman who has been in the food system for a while, starting as a lawyer working with Robert F Kennedy jr, lobbying against pollution from the meat industry to finally become a rancher and write the book Defending Beef, The Ecological and Nutritional Case for Meat (Chelsea Green Publishing).

Johannes Quodt on making the first regenerative and biodegradable luxury leather shoe

18th January 2022 koenvanseijen Beyond Food, Regenerative Agriculture, Role of Animals 2 Comments

Johannes Quodt, CEO and co-founder of Koio Collective, joins us to share how they’re changing the world through their journey towards making direct-to-consumer, high-quality, and biodegradable luxury shoes. 

Pietro Galgani on paying the true price for food and agriculture products and how to get there

11th January 2022 koenvanseijen Diet Change, Ecosystem Services Payments, Regenerative Agriculture 4 Comments

With Pietro Galgani of Impact Institute we discuss what a world where you pay the true price for a product, including all the environmental and social costs, would look like.

Paul Chatterton on working to finance the regeneration of 85m hectares across 16 landscapes

4th January 2022 koenvanseijen Landscape Design 2.0, Landscape Tech, Regenerative Agriculture 0 Comments

From Fiji to Slovakia and from Gabon to Scotland. There are very few people on the planet working on financing regeneration at a landscape level. This is a check in interview with Paul Chatterton of the Landscape Finance Lab currently working to finance the regeneration of 85m hectares across 16 landscapes.

What we learned in 2021 about food, tech, farmers, scale and love for nature

28th December 2021 koenvanseijen Diet Change, Ecosystem Services Payments, Farmers First Tech, Investor Stories, Landscape Design 2.0, Nutrient Dense Food, Nutrients to Soil, Ownership, Regenerative Agriculture, Role of Animals, Short Food Webs, Transition finance 0 Comments

We are approaching the end of 2021 with over 165.000 streams, 40 interviews, many new stories and people all working to regenerate soils at (more) scale. 

Stephanie and Blake Alexandre, regenerative dairy could be medicine

21st December 2021 koenvanseijen Regenerative Agriculture, Role of Animals 0 Comments

Stephanie and Blake Alexandre are the owners of the Alexandre Family Farm, the first regenerative dairy in the world. Fourth generation dairy farmers with over 40 years of experience, Blake and Stephanie Alexandre founded Alexandre Family Farm in Crescent City, California in 1988.