Spearheading the Dialogue in Food Systems Leadership
with Brenda Schoepp
Our Vision
We will engage with you in diverse conversations around agriculture and food leadership. We will empower you to embrace your talents and encourage you to create self-directed, resilient, regenerative, ecologically balanced outcomes. We commit to inclusion, authenticity and the preservation of dignity at all times.
Why
We believe that each unique challenge and each solution belongs to those who live it.
We appreciate agriculture and food as the global ecological, cultural, economic, social, community, health and justice connectors.
We know that your contribution to the discussion brings value, diversity of thought, and fosters creative ways of learning, knowing and doing.
Recent Blog Posts
- Reaching Farmers Through the ArtsDignity not only speaks to valuing and respecting people in their own space and place but also mirrors how we value ourselves. It is that fine thread woven into our actions that says ‘I can carry myself because I know your worth and I know mine.” Dignity, as a value, is often missing from programs and processes, systems and solutions and replaced by labels and an expectation that those in crisis step forward, fully exposing their vulnerable selves. In the Australian play entitled “Kick Off Ya Boots” the actors and characters are farmers, talking about the farm with love and …
- More Than Enough: Farmers provide in a world where food access is challengingThe global system is not short on grocery even though there are empty tables. There is more than enough food to feed each person on earth the required calories although high costs, hunger and malnutrition persist. The length of the food chain differs today compared to few decades ago. It is a longer chain that often includes many food miles and is logistically sensitive. It is in this supply chain of grocery that the majority of people on earth depend on for survival. There is an assumption that the supermarket will provide. The supermarket is simply the marketing venue – …
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