Farm to Future

Sara Hauman is a self-proclaimed yogurt queen and tiny fish enthusiast, known for her appearance on Top Chef Portland in 2021, amassed skills at a range of restaurants—from San Francisco’s Mister Jiu’s to world recognized restaurant Asador Etxebarri in the Basque region of Spain. She employs a hands-on approach, preserving farm fresh ingredients, celebrating the Oregon coast’s bounty, enjoying yog...

Caroline James is the Director of Sustainability at Atlantic Packaging, where she works with customers across the Fortune 500 and beyond to transition towards using more sustainable packaging. She is particularly interested in designing packaging for circularity, as well as in improving systems for recycling and composting. Caroline graduated from the Yale School of Management with an MBA in 2022,...

Ariana Day Yuen started her career as a management consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton in their DC and New York City offices where she advised clients across the government, non-profit, and private sectors. She then joined TechnoServe as a Fellow in their Ethiopia office and joined them full-time thereafter supporting a range of projects with Nespresso, Mondelez, Gates Foundation, JDC, the Swedish G...

Farm to Future turns one this week!! 🎂🎉 Enter the birthday giveaway to win a sustainable snack box: http://tiny.cc/farmtofuture In today's episode, I share five of my biggest takeaways from this year's guests, and why I changed my mind on things like plant-based foods and good food having to be expensive. You'll hear clips from these guests — check out the full episodes below: 1....

How to make good-for-you, good-for-the land pizza at home that you'll love, from our favorite culinary medicine friend Chef Dr. Mike. Michael S. Fenster, MD, better known as Chef Dr. Mike, is one of a handful of physicians worldwide to hold both culinary and medical degrees and is the only Interventional Cardiologist, and Professional Chef to do so. Through his Culinary Medicine program at th...

Anica is a whole-animal butcher and founder of Bonjerk—an East Asian-spiced jerky company based in San Francisco.  She is a first-generation Chinese American. In the years of growing up in Kansas, where Asians were the minority, food was a means for her family to keep traditions alive and celebrate their Chinese culture. Her love for food, especially meat, led her to the realization that Good Meat...

Christian Camargo is an award-winning actor and the owner of Sunever farm, a regenerative farm in the Mojave desert. He is perhaps best known for roles as Brian Moser in Dexter , Michael Corrigan in House of Cards, and Eleazar in The Twilight Saga. He currently plays Tamacti Jun in See and directed The Last Manhunt , which comes out in theaters November 18.  Off-screen, Christian is a Mexican-Amer...

Manifest Commerce is a 3PL (third-party logistics) platform that aims to be a true logistics partner to merchants by providing them with high performance fulfillment done in an environmentally responsible way.  They've only just begun, and have already deployed: No Plastics during the fulfillment process (Elimination of bubble wrap, bubble fill & plastic tapes) Carbon Offsets of all shipm...

Amy Adams is a Registered and Licensed Dietitian with more than 8 years working with patients and students from all walks of life. She has been gardening, tending chickens, and keeping bees since 2020. Amy is the host of The Backyard RD Podcast and blog. Her hope is to inspire beginners and seasoned growers alike with evidenced-based research to help you make more informed health choices. Amy has...

Alison Kay creates foods that enhance our biome, community and environment, working from her kitchen near Florence, Italy. She's the founder of Ancestral Kitchen, where she shares traditional food wisdom, fermentation and joyful eating in a practical and easily-accessible way. Start lending to regenerative farms today — get your money back plus interest: gosteward.com Connect with Alison Webs...

Chef Dr. Mike answers all your questions about gut health: why you don't need to spend $$$ on probiotics, what cuisines cater to better gut health, and ways to diagnose gut issues at home or with your doctor.  Michael S. Fenster, MD, better known as Chef Dr. Mike, is one of a handful of physicians worldwide to hold both culinary and medical degrees and is the only Interventional Cardiologist,...

Dan Miller is the Founder and CEO of Steward, a private lender providing regenerative farmers, ranchers, fishermen, and producers the capital they need to expand and sustain their businesses. And through our innovative online platform, qualified lenders have the opportunity to join in our mission and help fund the growth of regenerative agriculture by purchasing loan participations.  After graduat...

Bert Schamp is a Research Manager at Puratos and an Agronomist in the R&D team. As a researcher in applied biosciences, he has a track record in sustainable agriculture, vertical farming and smart farming techniques. At Puratos, he is also responsible for the Mission to Mars program, an R&D initiative where Mars' extreme conditions are an inspiration and stimulation to move the planet...

Claire Smith grew up as the 7th generation on a 2,300 acre family farm vowing to move as far away from the farm as she could. After graduating from University of Michigan with a BS Neuroscience and minor in Classics, she moved to western Canada. During this time, her parents decided to start pivoting the farm from corn and soybeans to alternative grains and seeds. Claire, acknowledging the irony,...

Neil Dudley is a Texas gentleman who believes in hard work with a little fun thrown in. His day job is makin’ bacon at Pederson’s Farms as the Vice President. But, his most important job is lovin’ on his wife & three young daughters…and throwing in some cowboy stuff when he can. As if that doesn’t keep Neil busy enough, he's picked up podcasting. You may know Neil from the Instagram accou...

Your favorite chef-cardiologist is back! And this time, we're talking all about sugar — the good, the bad, and the ugly — from a culinary medicine perspective. Plus, we answer your listener Q's about sugar addiction, low-calorie sweeteners, and what the deal is with natural sugars. Michael S. Fenster, MD, better known as Chef Dr. Mike, is one of a handful of physicians worldwide to hold...

Aidan Dowdle is the CEO and founder of Verdethos Inc, a technology company which produces blockchain based ERP platforms that create greater efficiency, fosters traceability and eases sustainability reporting across complex supply chains. Aidan spent more than a decade working for Wilmar International, Asia’s leading agribusiness firm, where he held a variety of managerial positions leading Wilmar...

Amal Chatterjee is an agricultural economist with 16 years of experience in Procurement. He graduated with a Master of Science degree from Penn State University in 2006. He currently manages the procurement of fats and oils, emulsifiers, and ingredients for his bakery ingredients company. He is married with two children and resides in a Philadelphia suburb. In his downtime, he enjoys reading, fish...

Orion Kobayashi has always had a passion for food, agriculture, and solving supply chain challenges. After serving in AmeriCorps and three years of working on farms, he went to Tufts Friedman School, earning an MS in Food Policy and Logistics. His work centers around connecting people with farmers, and through that connection creating value for sustainable products. He has helped build these value...

Rose Wang was co-founder and CEO of Chirps. She is a Shark Tank entrepreneur, Forbes 30 under 30 social entrepreneur, ELLE USA Impact Award winner, Echoing Green fellow, MassChallenge Gold Winner, Harvard Dean's Design Challenge winner, and TEDx speaker. She holds the record for World's Largest Nachos and is living proof that you can really do anything with a psychology degree.  Links Tr...

Tim West is a Slow Food chef turned Social Entrepreneur and Food Futurist. He was recognized as one of Zagat’s 30 under 30 Food-World Up-and-Comers for his work producing Food Hackathons and has since served as a Fellow4Good at the Institute for the Future and Global Ambassador to the Future Food Institute. His areas of interest include: mountain biking, climbing, local food systems, food as medic...

Ben Deuling is the founder of SporeAttic LLC, a gourmet mushroom farm in Bozeman, Montana. Ben moved from Michigan in 2017 to join a Ph. D. program in Molecular Bioscience at Montana State University. After 2 years working towards his doctorate, Ben finally accepted that he was unhappy, unfulfilled, and that academia would not take him where he wanted in life.  Around that time, Ben discovered a p...

Alex and Miguel are "two brown guys starting a sustainable farm" (in their words, mostly).  They're transforming a 158 acre wooded property in Connecticut into an agroforestry farm. Alex Eitland has been working in relation to the industrial meat industry for the past 5 years. After graduating with a political science degree, it was the last thing he expected. His love for the woods...

Joel Salatin, 64, calls himself a Christian libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic farmer. Others who like him call him the most famous farmer in the world, the high priest of the pasture, and the most eclectic thinker from Virginia since Thomas Jefferson. Those who don’t like him call him a bio-terrorist, Typhoid Mary, charlatan, and starvation advocate. He co-owns, with his family, Poly...

Michelle Nicole Gerrard is a poet, chronic illness warrior,  food stylist, and vegan chef. She believes in the power of thriving with organic whole foods, and living a life in alignment with nature. She also firmly believes that the more we care, the more we give and the more we show up for people, the more powerful we become.  In this episode, Michelle shares her journey with Mast Cell Activation...