About New Foundation Farms: The Radical Natural Podcast
New Foundation Farms is pioneering a fundamental shift in the system that feeds us.
Too many human beings see themselves as somehow outside nature, not part of it. We believe in the possibility that humans can become a beneficial keystone species on planet Earth.
We are building a radically natural food system in the UK in which we use methods from permaculture, biodynamic growing, organic and regenerative farming to grow food at scale in a way that has never been done before.
The result will be a hyper-local food system that uses stacked enterprises to deeply connect people with a wide variety of produce grown locally, everywhere.
It is about becoming indigenous again; not going back to the past, but going forward to explore the "wisdom of place" that returns us to a positive role in nature.
New Foundation Farms is a growing team of people who are passionate and inspired, and among the best at what they do in a variety of disciplines ranging from farming and processing to procurement and supply through to organisational architecture and systems thinking. This podcast series explores elements that are needed to help bring this radical natural vision to life though conversation.
Groundswell Sessions #02 - Nikki Yoxall, Head of Research at Pasture for Life & Regenerative Farming Pioneer
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...
11 Jul 2023
Groundswell Sessions #11 - Rebecca Mayhew - Pasture for Life & Old Hall Farm
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...
11 Jul 2023
Groundswell Sessions #07 - Filipe Salbany, Wild Bee Expert & Conservationist at the Blenheim Estate
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...
11 Jul 2023
Groundswell Sessions #06 - Emma Chow, Regenerative Food Systems Transformer
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...
11 Jul 2023
Groundswell Sessions #05 - Andrew Voysey, Head of Impact and Carbon at Soil Capital
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...
11 Jul 2023
Groundswell Sessions #01 - Pete Russell, Founder of Ooooby
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...
11 Jul 2023
Groundswell Sessions #08 - Alex Godfrey, Joint Head of Natural Capital at Savills
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...
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...
11 Jul 2023
Groundswell Sessions #03 - Koen van Seijen, Host of the Investing In Regenerative Agriculture Podcast
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...
11 Jul 2023
Groundswell Sessions #04 - Anthony Davidson, Founder of Big Barn
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...
11 Jul 2023
Groundswell Sessions #09 - André Tranquilini, Biodynamic Farmer & Estate Manager at Waltham Place
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...
23 May 2023
#7. Marcus Link - Human beings as a beneficial keystone species & how it is the foundation of New Foundation Farms
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 meanin...
22 May 2023
#5. Kevin Wissett-Warner - How managing 1,000,000 acres led to finally finding answers in holistic management of land and people
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...
22 May 2023
#6. Dr Annie Rayner - We don't have time for incremental changes. We need to think regeneratively about animal welfare in farming.
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.
22 May 2023
#3. Mark Drewell - "Supermarkets won't exist in the not too distant future." Vertically integrated diverse "field-to-fork" farms which serve their local community are the future.
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 t...
22 May 2023
#4. Ali Murrell - Beyond the Benefit Corporation: Building New Foundation Farms from the ground up
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 h...
15 May 2023
#2. Clare Hill - New Foundation Farms is about an alternative food system grounded in deep regeneration
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 Clar...
9 May 2023
#1. Caroline Mason - "I have had enough of being in this global supply chain machine"
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 w...
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