Tag: farm

Matteo Mazzola – Walking the land of Iside Farm with a regenerative farmer

2nd April 2024 koenvanseijen Landscape Design 2.0, Nutrient Dense Food, Nutrients to Soil, Regenerative Agriculture, Walking the Land with a Regenerative Farmer 0 Comments

This is a special episode, the first one ever of the Walking the Land with a Regenerative Farmer, where we walk the land of the farm with a farmer while we talk about regeneration. 

Walking through Iside Farm on the Iseo Lake in Italy, with regenerative farmer Matteo Mazzola, we unlock the secrets of regenerative agriculture as we traverse the innovative landscapes crafted by Matteo, Paola and the Iside crew. We embark on a profound exploration of sustainable farming, showcasing Matteo’s expertise in farm design, water systems, and the integration of olive trees and animals into the land. Learn how access ways are more than just paths across a farm; they’re a vital component in the flow of energy and resources, helping to prevent erosion with concrete strips and alfalfa, and offering additional crop space. Matteo’s wisdom extends to the creative reuse of shipping containers, illustrating a commitment to terraforming that marries functionality with environmental stewardship.

Heather Terry – If you sit in a boardroom, you have the responsibility and obligation to visit the farm where the food is produced

30th January 2024 koenvanseijen Diet Change, Regenerative Agriculture, Short Food Webs 0 Comments

A conversation with Heather Terry, CEO and founder of GoodSam Foods, about how an exit from a chocolate company led to a female-led consumer goods company, how education of consumers is key, networks vs. chains, multi-crop buying, and much more.

Every CEO and high-ranking manager working in food companies should be obligated to visit the farms and farmers they source from. So many decisions in the board rooms would be taken differently.

With Heather we dig into a story of a company about how an exit in a chocolate company led to a female led consumer good company focussing on chocolate, coffee, nuts and dried fruits. Preferably sourced from the same farmers paying them 2 to 3 times as much, marketed and sold throughout the US in Whole Foods and online and only being 2 years old. How is that possible? And why, according to Heather, is this the only way forward?

Millán Millán – Farm water at its proper scale

28th July 2023 koenvanseijen Landscape Design 2.0, Policy and Legislation, Regenerative Agriculture, Transition finance, Water Cycles 1 Comment

A conversation with Dr Millán Millán, director of the Centro de Estudios Ambientales del Mediterráneo (CEAM),about restoring the small water cycle, why the summer storms and rains have disappeared and how this turned out to be connected to massive snows in the UK, and massive floods in Central Europe and much more.

James Arthur Smith – Regenerative aquaculture is more healthy for you and the planet than wild caught fish

25th October 2022 koenvanseijen Diet Change, Nutrient Dense Food, Regenerative Agriculture, Short Food Webs 1 Comment

James Arthur Smith, founder of Seatopia, pioneering Regenerative Aquaculture for the Direct-To-Consumer Markets, shares about aquaculture, the challenges with unsustainable feed, concentrated pollution, commodified markets and more.

Boris Spassky on building the biggest organic almond farm in France and making it investable

20th September 2022 koenvanseijen Ecosystem Services Payments, Nutrient Dense Food, Ownership, Regenerative Agriculture, Transition finance 1 Comment

Boris Spassky, cofounder of Greenpods, joins us to talk about the critical role of project developers, creating bankable investable projects, the funds being raised and the missing deal flow.

Benedikt Bösel, updates from the 3000h German farm in transition

25th March 2022 koenvanseijen Nutrient Dense Food, Regenerative Agriculture, Role of Animals, Short Food Webs, Transition finance 1 Comment

A check in interview with Benedikt Boesel, German farmer in transition to regenerative agriculture. Benedikt has been the co-host of our special series on Transition Finance for Farmers in 2020.

Kellie Walters on how an Australian input company is helping China to regenerate 20 million acres

26th October 2021 koenvanseijen Farmers First Tech, Nutrients to Soil, Regenerative Agriculture 0 Comments

A conversation with Kellie Walters, CEO of VRM Biologik, about the different processes and programs they provide on a smaller scale, regional scale, national scale to the Food and Agriculture space in Australia, Malaysia, the USA, and China.

Mellany Klompe, leading regen farmer going all in on nutrient density

31st August 2021 koenvanseijen Diet Change, Ecosystem Services Payments, Farmers First Tech, Nutrient Dense Food, Nutrients to Soil, Regenerative Agriculture, Role of Animals, Short Food Webs 2 Comments

A conversation with Mellany Klompe, the Co-founder of Soil Heroes and the Director of the Soil Heroes Foundation about how measuring nutrient density is key towards having farmers as well as consumers on board with regenerative transition.

Marcus Link, Regen farming isn’t enough, we need regenerative enterprises

30th March 2021 koenvanseijen Diet Change, Investor Stories, Nutrient Dense Food, Ownership, Regenerative Agriculture, Role of Animals, Short Food Webs 4 Comments

A new conversation for the series on New Foundation Farms with the CEO Marcus Link, author of “Farming Smarter” about how farming using regenerative approaches is not enough and how New Foundation Farms is building a regenerative AgriFood enterprise on a thousand acres in the UK and raising 20 million to do so.

Soil Builders, using a bond to scale regenerative approaches in West Africa

1st December 2020 koenvanseijen Regenerative Agriculture, Soil Builders 3 Comments

An interview with Emiliano Mroue, co founder of the WARC group, on how they are applying regenerative approaches with smallholder farmers in Ghana and Sierra Leone. And how they are raising capital through the innovative New African Farmers Bond to scale their work.