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.
New Foundation Farms: The Radical Natural Podcast
#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 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.