Elspeth Hay is a writer and food systems thinker who’s inviting us to radically rethink how we grow our food. In her book Feed Us with Trees, she uncovers a forgotten story—one in which humans once thrived by cultivating staple foods like acorns, chestnuts, and hazelnuts in forest gardens rather than plowed fields. Through conversations with Indigenous knowledge-keepers, scientists, nut […]
Kelsey Timmerman is a New York Times bestselling author and globe-trotting journalist who brings big global issues down to a human scale. In his latest book, Regenerating Earth, he dives into the world of regenerative agriculture—traveling from Indiana cornfields to the Amazon rainforest—to explore how farmers and Indigenous communities are healing the planet by working with nature, not against it. […]
One of the small things I take joy from is being privileged enough to be able to live in a first-world country with a strong currency that can do amazing good for a relatively small (to me) amount of money. One of the ways I do that is to used Kiva.org, which I’ve done for years. Kiva is a nonprofit, […]
Maddie Hamann is the Co-Founder and Director of Marketing at PACHA Bread, where she applies her extensive scientific background to drive the company’s mission of promoting regenerative agriculture and sustainability. Maddie holds a PhD from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, but she transitioned from the field of Earth Science to marketing in order to make a direct impact on climate change […]
In this episode, we dive deep into the environmental impact of our food systems with Mark Easter, a leading expert on the intersection of agriculture and climate change. His upcoming book, The Blue Plate: A Food Lover’s Guide to Climate Chaos, presents groundbreaking insights on the hidden carbon footprint embedded in the way we grow, transport, and consume our food. […]
Michellee The Fox Returns! Today we’re going to see how her personal challenge went, find out what kind of things Michellee is doing now in the world of slow food cooking and regenerative agriculture, and in a special favor to me, going to teach me a brand new recipe she created, just for ME! So excited! Stay tuned until the […]
Iza & Samo Login are back for Part 2 of their sustainability challenge! Were they able to succeed? Remember what their challenge was? We even dive a little more into their foundation and how they are helping to evolve industrial agriculture models to become more sustainable. Tune in! Find Iza and Samo online: The Login5 Foundation: https://www.login5.org/Iza and Samo’s Book, […]
Today I’m talking with Iza and Samo Login, two Slovenian tech entrepreneurs who founded Outfit7 and created the Talking Tom app, which has been downloaded over 13 billion times. In just 7 years, they sold their startup for $1 billion dollars to a Chinese investment group in order to dedicate themselves to philanthropic pursuits, with their largest priority being to […]
Today we’re talking to Michellee Fox, a Brazilian native, slow food chef, small minority farmer advocate and Business Development Manager for FoodBay TV. She is part of a growing movement called the slow food movement, which focuses on using locally-sourced foods and traditional cooking styles, as opposed to the fast food we are all used to today. She is also […]