New Foundation Farms: The Radical Natural Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

Groundswell is an annual two-day festival of regenerative agriculture that takes place every June on a farm in Hertfordshire. Its a gathering of change in food and farming where farmers, conservationists, ecologists, chefs, agriculture industry representatives as well as financiers and MPs gather, speak and collaborate ideas about how we can transform food and farming into a more planet friendly agro-ecological future.

https://groundswellag.com/

This year we decided to film a mini series of friends, movers and shapers of the regenerative movement who are all in one place at one time.

Co-founder and Collaborative CEO Mark Drewell conducted interviews for New Foundation Farms with a selection of chosen guests.
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Episode 11 - Rebecca Mayhew - Pasture for Life & Old Hall Farm

Rebecca is not just the Regional Facilitator at Pasture For Life but is also a hard working farmer as Owner, Manager, Innovator, at oldhallfarm.co.uk disruptor, regen farmer, Cow with Calf Dairy, (Savoury Trained), 100% pasture fed, East Anglia Regional Facilitator for the PFLA, and CLA National Committee for Ag Land Use.
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Contacts for Pasture For Life

https://www.pastureforlife.org/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/pasture-fed-livestock-association/

Groundswell is an annual two-day festival of regenerative agriculture that takes place every June on a farm in Hertfordshire. Its a gathering of change in food and farming where farmers, conservationists, ecologists, chefs, agriculture industry representatives as well as financiers and MPs gather, speak and collaborate ideas about how we can transform food and farming into a more planet friendly agro-ecological future.

https://groundswellag.com/

This year we decided to film a mini series of friends, movers and shapers of the regenerative movement who are all in one place at one time.

Co-founder and Collaborative CEO Mark Drewell conducted interviews for New Foundation Farms with a selection of chosen guests.
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Episode 10 - Amy Chapple - Redwoods Farm

Amy Chapple was farming regeneratively before her 20th birthday having worked with The Cherry's on the site of Groundswell Festival before returning to the home farm in Devon. Amy has independently produced pork of the highest quality using a rotational grazing system to bring positive change to the land the pigs live on restoring biodiversity through their actions and has developed a soy-free supplement to top up their nutrition.

The farm that she shares with her father Mark Chapple is a truly beautiful regenerating space on the edge of Dartmoor.

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More about Amy Chapple

https://www.redwoodsfarm.co.uk/about-us/

Groundswell is an annual two-day festival of regenerative agriculture that takes place every June on a farm in Hertfordshire. Its a gathering of change in food and farming where farmers, conservationists, ecologists, chefs, agriculture industry representatives as well as financiers and MPs gather, speak and collaborate ideas about how we can transform food and farming into a more planet friendly agro-ecological future.

https://groundswellag.com/

This year we decided to film a mini series of friends, movers and shapers of the regenerative movement who are all in one place at one time.

Co-founder and Collaborative CEO Mark Drewell conducted interviews for New Foundation Farms with a selection of chosen guests.
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Episode 01 - Pete Russell - Ooooby

Ooooby provides software and support for farms and local food retailers to sell online and deliver to homes

Pete explains how Ooooby is  shortening the food supply chain to allow farmers to be able to sell directly to the public creating a local food system though a software platform

Contacts for Ooooby

https://ooooby.com/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIKPjO82lr-aSBS4MejpDeA

https://www.facebook.com/oooobyuk/

https://www.instagram.com/oooobyhq/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/ooooby/?originalSubdomain=nz

Glen Burrows talks to Marcus Link, co-founder and collaborative CEO, about the origins of New Foundation Farms. In a wide ranging conversation, they talk about the possibility of human beings as a beneficial keystone species and what it has to do with New Foundation Farms.  The discuss software models that optimise for the symbiosis between economy and ecology, the operations of purpose-built meat processing facilities, holism and reductionism, and how philosophy without action is meaningless and action without purpose can be deadly.

They also discuss the mindset needed to create a truly regenerative food system and predictions for the future growth of this type of nature based farming as New Foundation Farms sets out to offer a new foundation for society based in a regenerative approach to food and farming, at scale.

Glen Burrows talks to Dr Annie Rayner, Head of Research and Development at New Foundation Farms about how to think regeneratively about animal welfare in farming.

Annie reflects on how recent family illness brought home her own mortality and focused her mind on bringing about change at the pace demanded by the scale of the challenges we face; "we do not have time for slow incremental changes".

She has joined New Foundation Farms to show that an alternative system can exist.

Glen Burrows talks to Kevin Wissett-Warner, Director of Estates Management and Senior Non-Executive Director at New Foundation Farms.

Kevin reflects on a long history in farming and land management having advised on more than one million acres in the UK, Europe and the USA over the past 35 years.

Having asked questions about conventional practice already as a boy, Kevin eventually found answers during a Holistic Management training - which is also how he met Mark Drewell and Marcus Link, the founders and collaborative CEOs of New Foundation Farms.

In  this conversation with Glen Burrows, Ali Murrell explains his journey from studying biological sciences to working in finance at both Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan before becoming disillusioned with the lack of purpose beyond profit inherent in the system.

Sailing across the Pacific Ocean provided the space for realisation of his future which led, ultimately, to bringing a holistic mindset and purpose to his financial career and to New Foundation Farms.

The discussion also touches on how a business designed from the ground up to have real purpose written into its Articles of Association can not just generate profit but can pay forward positive impact in the process.

The episode in which Mark Drewell, co-founding collaborative CEO of New Foundation Farms, talks to Glen Burrows about why supermarkets are a thing of the past.

Starting with his involvement as a young manager in a steel company and the creation of the prototype of the peace committees which hailed the end of the Apartheid regime in South Africa, Mark reflects on a career at the edge of business and society, how enterprise becomes institutionalised and why disruptive change always comes from the edge. His fundamental conclusion is that change is made by unreasonable people who have a vision of a better future and who get on with the work of making it happen. 

Step away supermarkets: New Foundation Farms is coming.

Clare Hill is Director of Farming With Nature at New Foundation Farms.

In this episode, we talk to Clare about what has brought her to this point and what she brings to NFF.

Glen Burrows explores Clare's background working on animal welfare standards as well as being 'client side' as a buyer for Sainsbury's before joining FAI Farms where she researched regenerative production methods for brands such as Ikea, Arla, and, perhaps surprisingly, McDonalds.

We explore the moments that led Clare to rethink the current standard farming system and consider an alternative that offers 'deep regeneration' as she brings this knowledge and mindset to New Foundation Farms.

Caroline Mason is Director, Innovating Healthy Food Systems at New Foundation Farms. She has had a distinguished career in the food system including being head of food supply chains at the 2,400-store UK Co-op supermarket group.

In this episode, we talk to Caroline about her incredible career deep within the global supply chain of fresh foods and her desire to work towards helping to create an alternative to this global system that is radically natural.

Caroline is utterly fascinated by how we collaborate to transform the way we shape our planet for future generations and has always fostered collaborative relationships from farm-to-fork at the Co-op and before that at Waitrose.