Feeding Adam: Food, Farming & Our Search for Eden

In this episode, I interview Gadi Kenny who is an Israeli impact investor accelerating the ecosystem of Regenerative Agriculture in Israel. From the Israeli delegation to the Regenerative Agriculture and Food Systems Summit in Amsterdam to the Model Farm for Sustainable Agriculture and the Volcani Institute - we go on a whirlwind tour of the Regen movement in Israel.
Follow Gadi on LinkedIn
Join the Israeli Regen Ag Pioneers group on Facebook
Other noteworthy mentions:
Dr. Gil Eshel (Model Farm)
Prof. Rachel Creamer (Wageningen)
Groundwork BioAg
Prof. Yoram Kapulnik (Head of BARD, former CEO, Volcani Institute)

In this episode, LyOr Rabinowiz talks about his work planting food forests, building bio-compost and conducting soil microbial health testing to enhance the soil food web.
Follow Lyor:
Websites:
ReGen

Miyawaki IL

Instagram: @miyawakiil and @regen_soil

FaceBook: @miyawakiil and @regensoilil

LinkedIN: @miyawakiil and @regensoil

Other Links:
Dr. Elaine Ingham's Soil Food Web School: https://www.soilfoodweb.com
Precision Development (where I work): https://www.precisiondev.org
United Designers: https://www.uniteddesigners.org/

In this episode, I talk to Ykä about his pioneering work creating a one stop shop for rearing Black Soldier Fly larvae for livestock feed in used shipping containers.
Ykä is a serial entrepreneur based in Finland and currently CEO and founder of Manna Insect, which is on a mission to feed the world sustainably and give animal growers a cost-effective solution to produce their own feed. Manna Insect offers a solution to turn used and scrapped shipping containers into intelligent and automatically climatized environments to rear black soldier fly larvae. This larvae can then be locally used to replace soy and fish meal.

Ykä also co-founded GrainSense, Innopinion, People2join and Xardu. He has 15 years of technical experience developing B2B and consumer products relating to sensor and behavioral algorithms, autonomous measurement and analysis solutions. He has a PhD on understanding human comfort in moving machines. He has been CEO, CTO, COO, CIO, CMO and chairman of the board for several companies.
Links to Manna Insect:
Website: https://mannainsect.com
Instagram: @manna.insect
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mannainsect

In this episode, I talk to Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin (Regi for short) who is a Guatemalan ex-pat and is also an indigenous Mayan who is bringing his people’s ancient heritage and perspective on stewardship of the earth to farm production in Minnesota where he lives. While he operates his own farm (Salvatierra Farms), his vision is much larger than one farm - regenerative agriculture, he says, takes place across ecological systems and at RegenPoultry he is building a network of 250 farms from Minnesota down to Texas to create a new model for poultry meat and egg production, along with nuts and berries, that restores ecological balance to the system while meeting local demand.
Links to follow Regi:
LinkedIN
Twitter
@regenpoultry
Facebook
@regenagalliance
@salvatierrafarms

Websites:
Salvatierra Farms
RegenPoultry
RegenAgAlliance.org
Regenerative Agriculture Solutions

In this episode, I speak with Philippe Birker, co-founder of Climate Farmers, a social enterprise working to jump start the transition to regenerative agriculture in Europe.
We cover the many ways that Philippe and his team are working to support this transition through lobbying, developing carbon credits, providing on-farm training, consulting through experts, and creating a community of like minded farmers who can support each other.
You can follow Philippe on:
LinkedIn
And follow Climate Farmers at:
Instagram @climatefarmers
Also:
An overview of some of the farmers of ClimateFarmers
And here is all information about the annual Climate Farmers conference
- 25 - 27 October in southern Germany!