Tag: wine

Abby Rose – On raising non-extractive funding and the power of AI to help farmers with observation

20th February 2024 koenvanseijen Diet Change, Farmers First Tech, Nutrients to Soil, Regenerative Agriculture 0 Comments

A conversation with Abby Rose, co-founder of Vidacycle and Farmerama, about the role and potential of AI in observation, alternative investment, the power of transparency, why regenerative viticulture is so interesting, and more.

Why did someone who didn’t really need the money and had serious and reasonable questions about the tendency of startups, both in and outside the regenerative space, to keep raising money, ended up raising funding? Not in a traditional, potentially extractive way, but a revenue share, and service fee, and a cap.

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.

Adrian Ferrero on how giving farmers insights into the soil microbial community is key to regenerative agriculture

12th April 2022 koenvanseijen Ecosystem Services Payments, Farmers First Tech, Nutrient Dense Food, Nutrients to Soil, Regenerative Agriculture 2 Comments

Adrian Ferrero is the co-founder of Biome Makers, a global AgTech company providing advanced technology for modeling soil functionality. They are on a mission to enhance the productivity of arable soils and recover soil health worldwide. Through their proprietary soil tech platform, BeCrop, they measure the biological quality of the soil and deliver agronomic insights to optimize farm operations and output.

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.

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.