Transform the Food System

A commercial fisherman turned kelp and oyster farmer, Bren’s award-winning book, Eat Like a Fish, shows us how our oceans offer up a scalable solution to our global climate crisis.
Breaking down the walls between land and sea, learn about Bren’s polyculture farming model with GreenWave and his regenerative ocean farm on Thimble Island. We talk about how kelp is set to be the superfood of the future, with Bren telling us that it contains more vitamin C than orange juice, more calcium than milk and more protein than soybeans. Plus, it has the power to sequester five times more carbon than land-based plants.
This is a profoundly personal episode that brings us real hope for the future.

Listen in to the second half of Franco's conversation with Alice Waters: chef and founder of Chez Panisse, pioneer of The Edible Schoolyard and slow food activist. They cover how the schoolyard project has evolved as it's expanded nationwide, why we need to cook with our children and why now's the time for fast food to have its reckoning.

We Are What We Eat is available to pre-order now.

This week it's a titan of the slow food movement: Alice Waters. From dinners for friends at Chez Panisse to taking activism to the classroom with The Edible Schoolyard, her living legacy's making serious dents in the food system. Covering too much ground for one episode, we're taking it across two. Now, we're going back 50 years to when Alice's flavour enlightenment in France convinced her to open the doors of Chez Panisse back home in Berkeley, California.

The food system is opaque. When we start to unpack it, we find that it’s broken and taking its toll on the earth, its people and our economies. When just 15¢ of every dollar spent on food goes back to the grower, and industrialised agriculture mushrooms at the expense of biodiversity, soil health and nutritional density, it’s time to tap into the true cost of our food.

Let’s put the power back into the hands of growers, and deliver nutritionally dense produce with phenomenal flavour.

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Welcome to Transform the Food System with Natoora.

Artwork from Catie St. Jacques @sun_keep