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
#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 the edge. His fundamental conclusion is that change is made by unreasonable people who have a vision of a better future and who get on with the work of making it happen.
Step away supermarkets: New Foundation Farms is coming.