What can business leaders learn from regenerative farmers?
In response to the Planetary Emergency, organisations around the world are reconsidering their relationship with ecological systems. Pioneering leaders are actively challenging and unlearning economic scripts that are no longer serving their needs.
Professionals who are closest to Nature are becoming highly sought after. Enter three regenerative farmers from Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia.
In this Trans-Tasman Regen Podcast episode Claire and Matt team up with Ray Mildoni from Farming Secrets, Ewan Campbell from Eco Farm Aotearoa and Carolyn Suggate from the Organic and Regenerative Investment Cooperative to explore the themes of intergenerational wisdom and knowledge exchange, ground up leadership, localisation and exposing greenwash.
SPECIAL GUESTS
Ray Milidoni
While he has worn many hats across Operations, Marketing and Business Development throughout his career, Ray’s underlying theme is always one of collaboration. He’s all about encouraging people to work together, whether he’s facilitating game-changing projects focused around regeneration or teaching others how to grow their business.
Ewan Campbell
Ewan is a Farmer researcher who discovered the ability to increase electricity in the soil and its effects on biology nutrient uptake and production.
Whilst growing up and farming on the peat land they were continually
challenging the boundaries of what was possible. There was no rule book because very few had taken a peat swamp covered in scrub and turned it into a productive beef and sheep farm and then converted that to a dairy farm.
When he started farming on his own account his efforts to find people who could explain what, why and how things work on the farm and its soils usually left him with just a blank look. He was not deterred and his continued investigations were not in vain because they led him to be trained in soil agronomy, animal nutrition and environmental management with Brookside Laboratories. This unique opportunity gave him the ability to test, measure and give meaning to what they observed on the farm. When this knowledge was combined with the study of research papers and books from agricultural experts in biology, chemistry and physics a picture developed of how soils function in a productive manner. He want to pass his knowledge and experiences on.
Website: www.ecofarmaotearoa.com
Carolyn Suggate
Challenges and pioneering new innovations and projects in all aspects makes life interesting, to say the least! Carolyn has developed a collaborative community-based investment vehicle into the organic & biodynamic farming & food industry, plus developing a farmer owned ecological credit that brings value back to the farm gate. She is passionate about supporting the next generation of committed, open-minded producers to gain access, knowledge and success on farmland….. it is a great time to be an innovator in the Organic Sector!
My husband and I run our own organic and regenerative farm, including livestock, food & artisan grains in North East Victoria (Eat Local, Eat Wild). We hope that our farm can inspire others to share the road less traveled! Life is to be lived and fulfilled as if it were your last….. Between 3 teenagers, a tree-climbing husband, a busy farm, and ambitious travel plans life is way too short sometimes!
Website: https://www.organicinvestmentcooperative.com.au/
Project background:
The Trans-Tasman Regen Podcast is a forum that gathers changemakers from Aotearoa and Australia with the common purpose of regenerating our Earth through business. More info: https://www.linkedin.com/company/transtasman-project
