Angela McKee-Brown is passionate about how food builds and uplifts our kids as well as our communities. Executive Director of the Edible Schoolyard Project, Angie is taking on the question “what changes in our food system as a result of Edible

Emma Weston (AgriDigital): Transparency is the key ingredient in supply chains, and in leadership [Episode 18]

Oct 6th, 2020 36m 16s

Originally a city girl, a lawyer by training, now a proud farmer, Emma Weston CEO and Co-Founder of AgriDigital, is the consummate entrepreneur. She co-founded AgriDigital to use technology to ensure greater transparency and profitability acros

Marion Nestle: The collision of politics, big business, nutrition and food [Episode 17]

Sep 29th, 2020 32m 36s

Dr. Marion Nestle is a leading voice in the U.S. and internationally on how nutrition, agriculture, policy and business intersect—and collide. A pioneer in the world of food studies, Marion reflects on the last 30 years in the food movement. Ma

Rob Leclerc (AgFunder): Intersection of agtech and venture capital [Episode 16]

Sep 24th, 2020 34m 35s

Finishing a PhD in tech during the 2008 financial crisis, Rob Leclerc, Founding Partner of AgFunder, identified food as a critical industry that you can “be your career on”. AgFunder was born out of the recognition that the food and agtech ind

Mokhtar Alkhanshali (Port of Mokha): An entrepreneur's journey in the world of coffee [Episode 15]

Sep 22nd, 2020 34m 53s

Journey with us into the history of coffee and the realities of social enterprise with our guide Mokhtar Alkanshali, founder of Port of Mokha. A Yemeni-American, Mokhtar shares the extraordinary path that led him to build a vertically integrate

Fred Kirschenmann (The Farmer Philosopher): Healthy soil and transforming our relationship with nature [Episode 14]

Sep 15th, 2020 41m

Fred Kirschenmann is a farmer, academic, and pioneer advocate for resilient farming joining us to weave together why healthy soil is essential for farmers, our planet, and for our health. An unmatched storyteller, Fred traces the evolution of U

Mark Huang (SeaAhead): Connecting the dots between ocean, agriculture and tech [Episode 13]

Aug 20th, 2020 33m 27s

Mark Huang, Co-Founder and Managing Director of SeaAhead, is connecting the dots between land-based agriculture, tech, and oceans. We have come full circle— we started the summer season talking with Monica Jain of Fish 2.0 about drawing investm

Mark Watson (Fair Food Fund): Impact investing for food and communities [Episode 12]

Aug 13th, 2020 31m 42s

Mark Watson, Managing Director of the Fair Food Fund, joins us to talk about investing to build community resilience, tackle food insecurity, and take on diet-related disease. Starting his career in finance in the 1980s, Mark was in his own wor

Bob Quinn (Kamut International): Farming for our health [Episode 11]

Aug 6th, 2020 35m 27s

The U.S. has a cheap food system, says Bob Quinn, founder of KAMUT International. The problem? The high costs down the road: farmers going broke, decline of rural communities, pollution of the earth, and loss of our health. Bob makes a clear ar

Nina Meijers (FoodBytes!) & Claire Schlemme (Renewal Mill): building 21st century food business [Episode 10]

Aug 3rd, 2020 36m 34s

Nina Meijers of Rabobank’s FoodBytes! and Claire Schlemme of Renewal Mill are joining us to talk about building 21st century food businesses. We’re talking to Nina and Claire side by side to understand how FoodBytes supports innovation and the

Dana Gunder (ReFed): How to tackle food waste [Episode 9]

Jul 30th, 2020 30m 56s

Food is the #1 product going to landfill in the US. It is simple to sell people on the problem, but what to do about this complex problem stymies action. Dana Gunders, Executive Director of ReFed, has been focused on this issue for a decade and

Joe Blunda (Forager): The intersection of local food and technology [Episode 8]

Jul 23rd, 2020 29m 37s

Joe Blunda, CEO of Forager, digs into how Covid-19 has created a once in a generation reset around American food culture. People are rethinking their relationship to who provides their food in a time of crisis. The result? A spike in demand for

Caesaré Assad (FoodSystem6): Entrepreneurship to address injustices in the food system [Episode 7]

Jul 14th, 2020 30m 32s

The landscape of food system accelerators and incubators keeps expanding — for FoodSystem6 this is not competition, it’s more opportunity to drive change. Caesaré Asssad is talking about what the next version of our food system, the 6th food sy

Robyn O'Brien (rePlant Capital): Combating climate change by investing in our soil and in our farmers [Episode 6]

Jul 9th, 2020 36m 57s

"The current farming and financial systems are extractive industries," states Robyn O’Brien, co-founder and director of partnerships at rePlant Capital. Robyn cut her teeth as a financial analyst studying the food industry — she shares how food

Eric Jackson (Pipeline Foods): Building the organic food supply chain [Episode 5]

Jun 30th, 2020 32m 15s

U.S. consumer demand for clean label foods is outpacing domestic supply of key ingredients--enter Pipeline Foods. Eric Jackson, Chairman and Founder, talks about why farmers struggle to find organic markets, and why big companies struggle to me

Greg Shewmkar (TeakOrigin): The real nutrition of our food [Episode 4]

Jun 25th, 2020 40m 33s

Spoiler alert: the nutritional information we think we know about our food is incomplete and inaccurate according to Greg Shewmaker, Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer of TeakOrigin. Greg explains why the price we pay for food in grocery s

Ben Meyer & Jimmy Serlin (Revel Meat Co.): Meat processing and changing the status quo [Episode 3]

Jun 18th, 2020 45m

From the trenches of their meat processing facility Ben Meyer and Jimmy Serlin of Revel Meat dig into the challenges in the US meat industry and how small processors are changing the status quo. Revel Meat Co is a USDA meat processor and retail

Christine Moseley (Full Harvest): Using tech to solve food waste at scale [Episode 2]

Jun 16th, 2020 37m 3s

Christine Moseley is talking with us about how Full Harvest is using technology and innovation to solve the food waste problem at scale. The shocking statistic that 40% of our food is wasted has gained public attention. Less known is that one t

Monica Jain (Fish 2.0): The seascape of sustainable seafood [Episode 1]

Jun 11th, 2020 39m 49s

In Episode 1 Monica Jain, Founder and CEO of Fish 2.0 talks about starting a venture, running it successfully, declaring victory and evaluating the future of the seafood sector in the time of Covid-19. Fish 2.0 was designed to stimulate investm

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