Tag: wheat

Adrien Pelletier – Why all farmers or most farmers need to become seed breeders again

26th March 2024 koenvanseijen Diet Change, Regenerative Agriculture 0 Comments

A conversation with Adrien Pelletier, farmer, breeder, and baker, about wheat, seeds, no till organic farming, why all farmers or most farmers need to become seed breeders again, and why it is really difficult to bake sourdough with traditional organic wheat seeds that are not breed for high productive farms.

Why Adrien want to start changing the world in the most difficult place, at home, which is a large industrial, mostly extractive, commodity wheat-growing region in France? Picture a sea of wheat, large relatively flat fields and no trees. He argues we are in the prehistoric area of organic farming, and there is so much to discover, especially around population wheats. We also learn about no till organic farming is the way to go (and super difficult).

Kevin Morse – Flour, flavour and nutrients, how a back to the future mill changes everything for wheat farmers

26th September 2023 koenvanseijen Nutrient Dense Food, Nutrient Density in Food, Regenerative Agriculture 1 Comment

A conversation with Kevin Morse, cofounder and CEO of Cairnspring Mills, about the fascinating world of grain, wheat and the little secret of flour, building a new Back to the Future mill, and much more.

Vaughn Tan – What is population wheat, the world’s best restaurants and low intervention wine should teach us about investing in regeneration and uncertainity

18th July 2023 koenvanseijen Diet Change, Ecosystem Services Payments, Regenerative Agriculture, Short Food Webs 0 Comments

A fascinating and wide ranging conversation with Vaughn Tan, author of the Uncertainty Mindset, a fascinating newsletter about not knowing. Vaughn was in the army, worked at Google, studied at some of the world’s best restaurants. We talked about uncertainty vs risk, low-intervention wine, population wheat and so much more.

Jill Clapperton, a 25 years learning journey on nutrient density, healthy soils, food and people

27th February 2020 koenvanseijen Diet Change, Farmers First Tech, Nutrient Dense Food, Nutrients to Soil, Regenerative Agriculture, Short Food Webs 5 Comments

Co-founder of Rhizoterra Inc. and scientific advisor of chef Dan Barber, Jill Clapperton has been focussed on the connection between healthy soils, healthy food and healthy people for the last 25 years.