Tag: medicine

REGENERATIVE MIND – Emma Chow and Laurence Tremblay – How mindset is everything when turning chocolate into a tool for good

1st December 2023 koenvanseijen Regenerative Agriculture, Regenerative Mind, Short Food Webs 3 Comments

A conversation with Laurence Tremblay, co-founder and business manager of Guatemalan social enterprise, Cacao Source and founder of the nonprofit arm, Give Back to the Source. Emma Chow, the host of the Regenerative Minds series, explores with Laurence the regenerative mindset in the chocolate industry, cacao’s potential for regeneration, cacao farming, culture, and community in Guatemala, and much more.

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.

Cathryn Couch served 1m medically tailored meals to low income people with health challenges

19th January 2021 koenvanseijen Diet Change, Nutrient Dense Food, Regenerative Agriculture, Short Food Webs 2 Comments

Cathryn Couch has served over one million organic medically tailored meals to low income people struggling from health challenges. Cathryn is the founder and CEO for Ceres Community Project, a non-profit organization working to foster health by connecting people to one another and to a healthier food system.

What we learned in 2020 on nutrition, inequality, ownership, health, agroforestry, profitability, soil

28th December 2020 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, Soil Builders, Transition finance 2 Comments

As the year ends we share what we have learned in 2020 thanks to Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food from over 40 long interviews, many webinars and a complete series on Transition Finance for Farmers.

Pierre Weill on selling 2b euro a year of animal protein as anti inflammatory food

17th November 2020 koenvanseijen Diet Change, Ecosystem Services Payments, Nutrient Dense Food, Regenerative Agriculture, Role of Animals, Short Food Webs, Transition finance 6 Comments

This deep dive into nutrient density on how Pierre Weill, co-founder of the non-profit organization Bleu-Blanc-Coeur, created a 2b euro a year certification program, paying farmers more for better quality food. Starting with the simple (but very complex) concept: farmers hold the key to our health, if we don’t change the practices in the field we need to find chemical medicines.