Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food

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. Learn from one of the key researchers in the water cycles space! Trained in Canada...

This is a conversation between Koen van Seijen, host of the Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food podcast, and Anne van Leeuwen, regenerative farmer and co-owner of Bodemzicht Farm. A deep dive into the non-existence of the divide between nature and culture, getting back in touch with yourself, nutrient dense food as basic human right, community, minimum wage, true cost economy, agtech an...

A conversation with Alpha Lo, physicist and writer of the Climate Water Project, about the importance of slowing water down, the connection between drought, fire, and floods, and the massive role water plays in heating and cooling our planet. Trees create rain not the other way around. There is just so much to learn about water in all its forms, what it does when it’s part of a healthy watercycle...

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.  Investors and everyone in the regenerative ag and food space can and...

A conversation with Cristina Domenecq, Impact & Sustainability Officer at CrowdFarming, about direct-to-consumer platforms, consumers ready to buy long term, farmers ready to supply long term, transparency and more. Did you think that direct to consumer platforms always have to be small and cute? Think again, Cristina works at a company reaching over 350.000 customers and selling over products...

A conversation with Everest Gromoll, a research archaeologist and a regenerative agriculture entrepreneur, about the reasons why we need to go back 12000 years, look at the Holocene, the Anthropocene, the birth of agriculture and more. --------------------------------------------------- Join our Gumroad community, discover the tiers and benefits on www.gumroad.com/investinginregenag .  Support our...

A conversation with Will Harris, owner of White Oak Pastures, six generations, 156-year-old family farm in Bluffton, Georgia, about being in the space for 25 years but barely making money, new people wanting to get into the space, the unfairness built into the highly chemical, fossil fuel, extractive agriculture systems and a lot more. White Oak Pastures take pride in farming practices that focus...

A conversation with Helmy Abouleish, CEO of SEKEM, a legendary bio-dynamic farm in Egypt, about growing an agriculture company with 2000 farmers in the desert of Egypt, carbon credits and more. --------------------------------------------------- Join our Gumroad community, discover the tiers and benefits on www.gumroad.com/investinginregenag .  Support our work: Share it Give a 5-star rating Buy u...

A check-in interview with Neal Spackman, founder & CEO of Regenerative Resources Co, on why it has proven to be quite difficult to get his RSA Regenerative Seawater Agriculture project funded. We also talk about mangrove restoration projects, why investors are not jumping on top of it, what he has learned over the last 6 months of brutal painful pitching and hearing no, and more. What if there...

Live from Groundswell 2023, we talk with Alex Cherry,  farmer and organiser of the no till show turned into a festival of ideas. With Alex we delve into the festival's evolution, its unique blend of knowledge and community, engaging discussions, and the crucial role of youth in agriculture. We discuss the role the event has played in the farming community and its future.  Among discussions ar...

A check-in interview with Russ Conser of Standard Soil about Blue Nest Beef, Standard Soil, where the industry is going, the science of regeneration, seeing the soil and plants breathe, measuring carbon and water flows and why Russ is still very optimistic about the potential of regeneration. So much has happened in the last three years since our first conversation with Russ. ---------------------...

What if you could revolutionize the way you think about food, farming, and transparency in the supply chain? A conversation with Coline Burland, co-founder and Head of Product development of Omie, about radical transparency, transition for the farmers, consumers as part of the transition, quality products, fair prices and much more. Most of the food we consume has been processed and comes in a con...

What if the key to a healthy life lies within the soil beneath our feet? A conversation with Mary Purdy, eco dietician and nutrition and sustainability advisor for Big Bold Health, about the flour business, what it has to do with our gut health, the cousin of buckwheat and much more. Discover how food is medicine and why we must consider soil and farming practices in our quest for well-being. Mary...

What happens when big brands and massive food companies move into the regenerative agriculture industry? Should we celebrate or worry about this shift? Join us as we explore these questions with Karen Rodriguez, chief operation officer of Kiss the Ground, and Ethan Soloviev, chief innovation officer at HowGood, who recently updated the Regenerative Agriculture Industry Map. Throughout this enlight...

A conversation with Yasmine Cathell, Nutrition Project Manager of the Soil Heroes Foundation, about her journey into regenerative agriculture, and her MBA studies until her cutting-edge nutrient density research in the south of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on a large commercial potato, onion, and wheat farm. What if the secret to better health lies in the nutrient density of the food we eat, and co...

A conversation with Cate Havstad-Casad, farmer rancher on a regenerative farm in central Oregon, designer and food system activist, about how the fibres of the clothes we wear every day are made of petroleum or are coated in plastics and other petroleum chemicals. --------------------------------------------------- Join our Gumroad community, discover the tiers and benefits on www.gumroad.com/inve...

A conversation with Claire Crunk, health nurse practitioner, founder, and CEO of Trace. As a pioneer 5years in the US hemp fiber agricultural movement, she joins together exciting new practices in healing the earth through hemp and regenerative farming techniques with her knowledge of menstrual healthcare. We talk about fossil fuel-based products, natural fibres, cotton, hemp and maybe the biggest...

A conversation with Peter Byck, filmmaker and a wrangler of scientists, about regenerative vs conventional grazing and his new 4 part documentary series Roots So Deep (you can see the devil down there) . --------------------------------------------------- Join our Gumroad community, discover the tiers and benefits on www.gumroad.com/investinginregenag .  Support our work: Share it Give a 5-star ra...

Lauren Tucker is back on the podcast to talk about the first year of the ReNourish Studio, what she has learned and what she is doing differently with the second cohort, but also what she is observing in the space through her work in the almond project and, of course, the direction of the regeneration industry. --------------------------------------------------- Join our Gumroad community, discove...

A conversation with Marta Cortegano, cofounder of Terra Sintrópica and one of the leaders of the regenerative agriculture movement in Portugal. Straight from one of the driest and emptiest places in Europe where climate change is hitting hard, we talked about farming in challenging conditions, syntropic agroforestry and more. --------------------------------------------------- Join our Gumroad com...

A conversation with Stef van Dongen, founder of The Pioneers of Our Time, about how to regenerate a whole watershed, how to see value again in a super overgrown forest, water, the meaning of life, burnouts, farming, eggs, cows and a lot more. --------------------------------------------------- Join our Gumroad community, discover the tiers and benefits on www.gumroad.com/investinginregenag .  Supp...

A conversation with Eric Jackson, board chair of BioNutrient Food Association, about nutrient density, the research, the practical implication, soil carbon credits, cell-based and plant-based meat replacements and more. --------------------------------------------------- Join our Gumroad community, discover the tiers and benefits on www.gumroad.com/investinginregenag .  Support our work: Share it...

A check-in conversation with Pierre Weill, a world-leading researcher and practitioner when it comes to nutrient density and food and co-founder of Bleu-Blanc-Coeur, the largest certification body in the world focusing on the quality of food, about the latest scientific developments, research on animal protein and vegetable nutrient density, and more. ----------------------------------------------...

A conversation with Fides Lapidaire and Yanna Hoek, the creators of Holy Shit, a documentary on how our shit can feed the world, about human shit or human treasure as they like to call it, the gap in our circular food system, the need for a mindset shift, the technology needed and more. --------------------------------------------------- Join our Gumroad community, discover the tiers and benefits...

A conversation with Christian Jochnick, founder of Juntos Ibiza, a project designed around a circular, regenerative model of food, farming and community, about why Tesla is such a good model to follow for regenerative agriculture, why should we focus on the affluent market first and more. --------------------------------------------------- Join our Gumroad community, discover the tiers and benefit...