Food

207: Saving the Family Farm with Bitcoin and Building a Regenerative Food Brand with Dax Hansen, Founder of Oatman Farms

Dax Hanson is the owner of Oatman Flats Ranch and founder of Oatman Farms is a world-renowned FinTech lawyer, and a visionary farmer who is leveraging his blockchain expertise to bring transparency to the food supply chain. Dax’s focus in on creating sustainable and profitable business family-farm models that other farmers can replicate.

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206: Converting US Dairy Farms into Oat Farms with Hälsa Foods Co-Founder Helena Lumme & Farmer Eric Ziehm

Listen on Apple Podcasts or Everywhere Else Helena Lumme is the President and Co-Founder of Hälsa Foods, a CPG company that produces oat milk products, focusing on clean ingredients, clean processing, and clean labels. Helena joins to share more about her journey founding the company and optimizing their marketing and supply chain. Helena is joined by Eric Ziehm,…

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204: Investing In and Operating Regenerative Companies with Lew Moorman, Co-Founder of Soilworks Natural Capital

Lew Moorman is the Co-Founder of Soilworks, a Public Benefit Company on a mission to accelerate the Regenerative Food Movement by helping launch scalable, repeatable businesses that fuel the Regenerative economy. Lew’s background is in the tech industry and he shares his story about why he decided to jump into the ag industry and start investing there. Tune in to learn what’s he’s up to with Soilworks, PastureMap, and Wholesome Meats!

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199: Innovation in Food and CPG with Sarah Sha and Isha Joshi of KitchenTown

Sarah Shaw is the Director of Strategy and Isha Joshi is the Director of Product Development for KitchenTown, a scale-up facility in San Mateo, CA that gives food startups access to a commercial kitchen, product innovation lab, direct to consumer warehouse, brand partnerships program, and thriving community of makers.

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196: Rethinking Controlled Environment Agriculture with Craig Hurlbert, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Local Bounti

Craig Hurlert is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Local Bounty, a premier controlled environment agriculture company redefining conversion efficiency and ESG standards for indoor ag. Craig joins the podcast to share more about his background in the energy sector and private equity and what ultimately led him to found Local Bounti. We discuss the challenges of CEA and how he and the team are taking a unique approach to a difficult business to scale profitably.

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195: Direct-to-Consumer Strategy with the Farmer’s Dog Co-Founder, Brett Podolsky

Brett Podolsky joins The Modern Acre podcast to talk about how he helped create The Farmer’s Dog, a dog food company focused on using real, fresh food and delivering customized servings to their customers. Brett shares the vision behind the company and why using real food is so important to the brand.

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193: Acre Insights – Produce Trends and the Latest on the Farm and Our CPG Journey

Another edition of Acre Insights! Tyler provides a quick update on Rivian, then Tim and Tyler discuss the latest at Nuss Farms and their journey developing a product to go direct-to-consumer. Plus, they discuss a recent article and study about the US importing tomatoes from Mexico. Tune in for some insights!

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192: Successful CPG Exit and Bridging the Gap Between Ag and CPG with Jennifer Barney

Jennifer Barney is the founder of Barney Butter Almond Butter and previously led Innovation for a $700mm CPG category leader. She is an advisor and mentor to startup CPG brands and ag leaders entering the value added space. Jennifer joins us to share more about her journey founding, scaling, and exiting a CPG brand. She also dives into the current landscape of ag and CPG and her current work at 3rd & Broadway. Tune in!

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191: Healthy Snacks and a Transparent, Regenerative Supply Chain with Kristy Lewis, Founder of Quinn Snacks

Kristy Lewis is the founder and CEO of Quinn Snacks, a CPG company reimagining classic snacks by bringing real ingredients and transparency back to the snacks you love. Kristy joins the podcast to tell us about the founding story, Quinn’s focus on their farmer-partners, their approach to regenerative ag, how they have scaled, and much, much more. Tune in!

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182: Oatly’s Director of Sustainability, Julie Kunen

Julie Kunen is the Director of Sustainability at Oatly, the world’s original and largest oat drink company. Julie’s background is in creating and delivering sustainability programs and motivating stakeholders to deliver results. She joins us to dig deep on what sustainability means at Oatly and how they are driving towards continued improvement.

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