Podcast appearances and mentions of Patrick Holden

For this episode of the SFT podcast, Max Jones – transhumance guide and traditional foods archivist – visits our CEO, Patrick Holden, on Patrick's farm in Wales.  Alongside his work as a transhumance guide – the practice of moving livestock from one grazing ground to another in accordance with the seasons – Max Jones is also a writer, photographer, educator and founder of Up There The Last, a project which aims to reconnect people with their food and educate them about the traditional food practices of the past, which still exist in some parts of the world today. From rare cheese production in the heights of the Alps, to traditional wild salmon smoking in the republic of Ireland, Max Jones' journey to seek out and learn more about traditional food practices has taken him all over the world and led him to meet the people working hard to preserve these essential practices that are at risk of being left behind and forgotten. In this episode, Max and Patrick talk about the threat to traditional foods including modern technology and health and safety regulations, as well as the presence of an off-the-record 'food counterculture' that exists to protect ancient practices. To find out more about Max, follow him on Instagram, and visit the Up There The Last website and Substack page. You can also read the article that Max wrote for the SFT about the importance of preserving traditional food practices, here: https://sustainablefoodtrust.org/news-views/preserving-the-practices-of-traditional-foods/. To listen to more SFT podcasts, featuring some of the biggest names in regenerative food and farming, head to our main podcast page. And to keep up to date with our news, you can subscribe to our fortnightly newsletter or follow us on Instagram, X, Facebook and Bluesky. This conversation was recorded in August 2024.

George Monbiot - the Guardian columnist with a penchant for lab-based protein and a farm-free future - recently wrote a scathing article damning two important livestock reports. The first was a report into three years of research into AMP grazing from FAI Farms, the Oxfordshire-based farm and food system consultancy - the second, Grazing Livestock, was by the Sustainable Food Trust.ffinlo Costain talks to Karl Williams, a director of FAI, and Science and Technical Lead, Amanda Deakin - and to Patrick Holden, chief Executive of the Sustainable Food Trust, and Senior Research Manager, Robert Barbour.Read the reports at 8point9.com:FAI AMP report: https://8point9.com/emissions-completely-offset-by-sequestration-in-mcdonalds-fai-amp-grazing-project-2/SFT Grazing Livestock report: https://8point9.com/new-report-aims-to-flip-the-script-on-meat-and-dairy/

Stephanie Perry is the Assistant Director of Community & Public Relations at the City of Fishers. After 18 hard months, Stephanie became a marathoner at the Indianapolis Monumental Marathon last November 2024, something she never thought was possible. During this episode, sponsored by Previnex, we talk about:Having imposter syndrome about being a runner since she doesn't run fastThe Indy Mini that just happened on 5/3/25 and how she doesn't love it A little bit about my Mini with Ainsley's Angel Mom life and having a husband who also runs Why she signed up for her first half marathon Starting an informal run club at the City of Fishers where she works to run during lunch How we're both over going above and beyond to host parties (Thank you, Mel Robbins)Running at Lake Wawasee in Syracuse, IN and our love of vacation runs Nutrition and how she used to refuse to stop for water during races Her 18 month marathon training journey The 8 Hour Endurance Race around Butler University Life outside of running working for the City of Fishers (where she lives)The Geist Half Marathon Sponsor Details:- ⁠Previnex⁠ - Use ALLY15 for 15% off your first orderGoFundMe for Patrick Holden who passed away after the Indy Mini

Joining our CEO, Patrick Holden, for this episode of the podcast is Jamie Feilden, founder of Jamie's Farm. Jamie Feilden founded Jamie's Farm in 2009, a charity which seeks to transform the lives of vulnerable children through farming, food and therapy. 15 years later, Jamie's Farm works with over 2,300 children a year across seven farms, and aims to offer as many children as possible an opportunity to improve their wellbeing, boost engagement and develop key life-skills, whilst spending time on a farm.  In this episode, Jamie shares with Patrick how his experiences as a history teacher in Croydon led to the inception of Jamie's Farm, as well as discussing his recent involvement in the SFT's Beacon Farms Network, and why an educated public is key to achieving positive change across our food and farming systems. Visit Jamie's Farm here to find out more about their work and follow them on their social media channels at @JamiesFarm. To listen to more SFT podcasts, featuring some of the biggest names in regenerative food and farming, head to our main podcast page. And to keep up to date with our news, you can subscribe to our fortnightly newsletter or follow us on Instagram, X or Facebook.

On this special episode of Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg, Dani and Patrick Holden sit down for a conversation about the future of food and farming systems. They talk about reckoning with the idea that business as usual is no longer working, the fragility of food systems, and the value of measuring—and finding solutions to address—the true cost of food. While you're listening, subscribe, rate, and review the show; it would mean the world to us to have your feedback. You can listen to “Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg” wherever you consume your podcasts.

Kicking off series five of the Sustainable Food Trust podcast, Patrick Holden, SFT CEO and organic dairy farmer, catches up with Dani Nierenberg, President of Food Tank. Dani Nierenberg is a world-renowned researcher, speaker, and advocate, on all issues relating to our food system and agriculture. In 2013, Dani co-founded Food Tank with Bernard Pollack, a nonprofit organisation focused on building a global community for safe, healthy, nourished eaters. Food Tank is a global convener, thought leadership organisation, and unbiased creator of original research impacting the food system. Dani has an M.S. in Agriculture, Food, and Environment from the Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy and spent two years volunteering for the Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic. In this first episode of the new series, Dani and Patrick discuss the impact of an extractive approach to agriculture upon our planet and our health. They consider how we can switch to a more regenerative approach – one that restores the soil, conserves water, and reduces the need for agrichemicals. Dani shares her insights on the recent shake-up in US politics and what the new administration could mean for food and farming, as well as exploring challenges relating to certification, labelling and consumer engagement. The conversation also examines the true cost of industrial food production, which typically isn't reflected in the retail price, and unpicks some of the sustainable agriculture challenges currently being faced in California and beyond. Commenting on what gives her hope for the future, Dani gives plenty of reasons to be optimistic, including opportunities for young people in agriculture and the huge potential for collaboration within the food and farming sector. Visit Food Tank here to learn more about their work. And you can find Dani on LinkedIn and X. To listen to more SFT podcasts, featuring some of the biggest names in regenerative food and farming, head to our main podcast page. And to keep up with our news, you can subscribe to our fortnightly newsletter or follow us on Instagram, X or Facebook.   Timestamps: 0:00 – Intro 0:43 – Welcome Dani! 1:28 – Food Tank's impressive global reach 3:06 – Dani's path to agriculture & sustainability 4:40 – The Peace Corps' influence on Dani's work 6:45 – The California wildfires 10:35 – Extractive agriculture in America  11:55 – What does the transition to more sustainable food & farming systems look like? 13:54 – How will the new US administration impact food and farming? 19:03 – How can we reach a wider audience? 21:22 – What did the Democrats achieve on food & farming in the last four years? 23:50 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Joel Salatin 25:59 – Barriers for young farmers in the US 26:46 – Groundswell film 27:31 – The challenges with certification in organic farming 30:56 – The agrochemical industry's attempts to silence critics 32:53 – The importance of uncomfortable conversations and unusual collaborations 33:34 – True Cost Accounting  39:53 – Taking 'Feeding Britain' international 41:16 – Goodbye and thank you! 42:11 – Outro

With the country now 100 days into the new Labour Government, Farmers Guardian has created a new manifesto on what farmers and rural businesses want from the Government.FG editor Olivia Midgley, Patrick Holden, chief executive of the Sustainable Farming Trust, National Pig Association chief executive Lizzie Wilson, Minette Batters, tenant farmer and former NFU President, farmer John McCulloch,  Ed Barker, head of policy and external affairs at the Agricultural Industries Confederation and Mark Charter from Carter Jonas came together to discuss what the industry needs.Farmers Guardian will always hold those in power accountable and continue to speak up for farming. Message us

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Show Notes Dave Chapman is a lifelong organic farmer who runs Long Wind Farm in Vermont. They grow the best tasting organic tomatoes in the country in the fertile soil underneath a glass greenhouse. He is the Co-Director and Board Chair of the Real Organic Project, dedicated to reigniting and reconnecting the organic movement. He leads the Real Organic Podcast, providing a platform for many organic farmers, eaters, scientists, authors, educators, activists, and chefs. He was a co-founder of Vermont Organic Farmers in 1985, and was among those first certified by the USDA's National Organic Program in 2003. His latest project is the creation of the Tomato Masterclass, a training for farmers working to create a stronger economic base for their market gardens. In his spare time he practises tai chi to stay sane and healthy. Real Organic Project: https://realorganicproject.org/  PLEASE make sure to subscribe to the podcast, download our episodes, and rate them! Your support means the world to us. Thank you! Sponsors Bootstrap Farmer https://www.bootstrapfarmer.com/  Ooooby https://www.ooooby.com/ (mention the podcast for 75% off onboarding fee) New Society Publishing https://newsociety.com/ (use code smallfarm25 for 25% off all books) [2:53] Intro [4:19] Organic has always been an insurgency [7:14] History of organic [8:26] Ivy league kids growing their own food in the 60s [10:26] Dave's farming story [13:59] You couldn't find organic at the grocery store in the 90s [15:03] Early adopters of organic and its importance [16:32] Fraudulent organic grain in the US [18:10] The moment it stopped being a "movement" [19:00] Patrick Holden, Lady Eve Balfour, and Albert Howard [20:34] Corporate forces co-opting the cultural movement [23:37] The rapid loss of meaning with "regenerative" [27:56] Rachel Carson's Silent Spring [34:43] History of ag in Asia - F.H. King's Farmers Of 40 Centuries [36:44] Hydroponic becomes organic and the start of the Real Organic Project [42:00] CAFO's in organic [44:30] Zephyr Teachout's Break 'Em Up [45:43] Monopolies were being broken up before Robert Bork changed things in the 1980s [48:56] 70% of organic berries in the US are Driscoll's berries [53:23] How can small organic farmers compete with the prices of big organic? [54:47] Majority of our food production moving to central America [58:26] Thoreau and ML King's activism [1:02:48] There has always been bad farming even before chemical agriculture [1:04:59] Why big companies love "regenerative" [1:07:12] Monsanto's "climate smart" agriculture [1:08:04 Is "No-Till" being co-opted too? [1:12:04] Pepsi claims regenerative?! [1:13:25] Hope for the future [1:18:33] The world's best manipulators have all the money, and they're working tirelessly to mislead you [1:19:09] Seth Godin on the internet [1:20:20] It was hard for the pioneers in the past, and it won't be easy in the future either [1:25:30] Europe's field to fork initiative [1:42:50] The Real Organic Project [1:45:19] What book have you read more than once? [1:46:56] What advice did you only appreciate later in life? [1:49:05] What's the best difficult decision and best mistake you've ever made? Links/Resources Market Gardener Institute:  https://themarketgardener.com/  Masterclass:  https://themarketgardener.com/courses/the-market-gardener-masterclass/  Newsletter:  https://themarketgardener.ac-page.com/newsletter-subscription  Blog:  https://themarketgardener.com/blog  Books: https://themarketgardener.com/books Growers & Co: https://growers.co/ Heirloom: https://heirloom.ag/ The Old Mill: https://www.espaceoldmill.com/en/ Follow Us Website: http://themarketgardener.com  Facebook: http://facebook.com/marketgardenerinstitute  Instagram: http://instagram.com/themarketgardeners  Guest Social Media Links Real Organic Project: https://realorganicproject.org/  JM: https://www.instagram.com/jeanmartinfortier https://www.facebook.com/jeanmartinfortier  Chris: https://www.instagram.com/chris_m_moran 

Bringing the fourth series of the SFT podcast to a close, Patrick Holden caught up with longtime friend and one of the pioneers of the UK's organic farming movement, Iain ‘Tolly' Tolhurst. “We need to bring farming back into society. It's become completely divorced from society.” Tolhurst Organic, located on the Hardwick Estate between the Chilterns and the river Thames, is a model of sustainability, and one of the longest running organic vegetable farms in England. For over 40 years, Tolly has been producing a wide range of seasonal, organic fruits and vegetables, which are sold to the local community through a box scheme. His farm was the first to attain the “Stockfree Organic” symbol in 2004, and there have been no grazing animals and no animal inputs to any part of the farm for over 30 years. To build soil fertility, Iain uses green manures as part of a crop rotation, as well as using vegetable and woodchip compost from waste materials. With his extensive knowledge and experience of organic food production, Iain also delivers educational talks across the UK and beyond, and runs a consultancy service giving advice on organic conversion and production, helping to train and educate farmers and growers for the future. During this episode, Patrick and Tolly explore the economics of farming and what it means to pay the ‘right price' for our food. Tolly also talks about the productive capacity of Tolhurst Organic and how they're feeding the surrounding community through their veg box scheme. Patrick and Iain delve into the current state of the UK farming sector amidst the changing policy around farm subsidies and how this is affecting both organic and conventional farmers, before closing with a conversation on the importance of demonstration farms for informing and educating people about the story behind their food and the need to incentivise farmers for this. To find out more about Iain and Tolhurst Organic, follow @tolhurstorganicveg on Instagram, or visit www.tolhurstorganic.co.uk. This conversation has been split into two episodes – for part one click here, or find the episode wherever you get your podcasts from. To listen to more SFT podcasts, featuring some of the biggest names in regenerative food and farming, head to our main podcast page. And to keep up with our news, you can subscribe to our fortnightly newsletter or follow us on Instagram, X or Facebook.

Bringing the fourth series of the SFT podcast to a close, Patrick Holden caught up with longtime friend and one of the pioneers of the UK's organic farming movement, Iain ‘Tolly' Tolhurst. Tolhurst Organic, located on the Hardwick Estate between the Chilterns and the river Thames, is a model of sustainability, and one of the longest running organic vegetable farms in England. For over 40 years, Iain has been producing a wide range of seasonal, organic fruits and vegetables, which are sold to the local community through a box scheme. His farm was the first to attain the “Stockfree Organic” symbol in 2004, and there have been no grazing animals and no animal inputs to any part of the farm for over 30 years. To build soil fertility, Iain uses green manures as part of a crop rotation, as well as using vegetable and woodchip compost from waste materials. With his extensive knowledge and experience of organic food production, Iain also delivers educational talks across the UK and beyond, and runs a consultancy service giving advice on organic conversion and production, helping to train and educate farmers and growers for the future. During this episode, Patrick and Iain recount how they first met in 1981 when the UK Organic Farming movement was still in its infancy, and Iain shares the origin of his passion for horticulture, including his earliest influences. They also discuss the impacts of World War II on agriculture in the UK and what lessons we can learn from this, before digging into Iain's farming practices including the use of wood chip, as well as a discussion around the the role of livestock. To find out more about Iain and Tolhurst Organic, follow @tolhurstorganicveg on Instagram, or visit https://www.tolhurstorganic.co.uk. This conversation has been split into two episodes – tune in for part two on Wednesday 10th April. To listen to more SFT podcasts, featuring some of the biggest names in regenerative food and farming, head to our main podcast page. And to keep up with our news, you can subscribe to our fortnightly newsletter or follow us on Instagram, Xor Facebook.

Julius Roberts – a first-generation farmer and chef with a passion for seasonal cooking and self-sufficiency – joins Patrick Holden for this episode of the SFT podcast. After studying sculpture at university, Julius worked as a full-time chef in London before moving to a smallholding in Dorset where he now farms. He keeps a range of livestock, including goats, sheep and pigs, and grows a wide variety of vegetables. He's also amassed an online audience of over one million followers, where he shares delicious, seasonal recipes, inspiring people to think more about the seasonality and provenance of their food. In 2023 he published his recipe book, The Farm Table, which is now a Sunday Times bestseller. During the conversation, Patrick and Julius discuss a range of issues, including the pressured but inspiring time that he spent working as a full-time chef in London, the role of restaurants in providing a “home for good farming”, and humans' responsibility to ensure a good life and death for the animals that provide our milk, cheese, meat and more. Talking about his animals, Julius comments, “I feel very privileged to be so close to my food. When you rear animals on the scale that I do, they become companions… and they should be respected… What has happened to the world of meat to make it cheap for us and an everyday commodity is a scar on humanity.” They also explore the power of storytelling and social media in connecting people with the story behind their food, as well as touching upon the current farmer protests taking place in Europe and the UK. To listen to more SFT podcasts, featuring some of the biggest names in regenerative food and farming, head to our main podcast page. And to keep up with our news, you can subscribe to our fortnightly newsletter or follow us on Instagram, X or Facebook.

In this episode of the SFT podcast, Patrick Holden sat down with John and Alice Pawsey, pioneering organic farmers of Shimpling Park Farm in Suffolk. As well as farming 650 hectares of arable land and 1,000 New Zealand Romney breeding ewes, Shimpling Park also farms an additional 980 hectares of land for neighbouring farmers, all of which are managed organically. Diversifications on the farm include an extensive environmental scheme to support nature-friendly farming and various renewable energy projects, and the farm regularly hosts school visits and events. During the conversation, John and Alice discuss their journey from conventional to organic agriculture, as well as their decision to re-integrate livestock into their mainly arable system. They also touch on the role of farms as educational centres to help connect people with the story behind their food, before finishing with a discussion on agricultural policy and what the future of farming looks like for organic farmers, following the introduction of new environmental land management schemes. John and Alice also feature in the SFT's Feeding Britain from the Ground Up report, as an example of what future farming could look like. To find out more about their farm, watch this video. To listen to more SFT podcasts, featuring some of the biggest names in regenerative food and farming, head to our main podcast page. And to keep up with our news, you can subscribe to our fortnightly newsletter or follow us on Instagram, X or Facebook.

For this episode of the SFT podcast, Patrick Holden travelled to the Cotswolds to catch up with Dame Prue Leith – renowned restaurateur, cook, novelist and judge on the hugely popular Great British Bake Off. Prue recounts the incredible life she has led, from growing up in South Africa during Apartheid, to living in France where she discovered her passion for cooking. Prue and Patrick's far-ranging discussion takes in everything from the value of cooking from scratch and the insidious rise of ultra-processed foods to the importance of connecting chefs with the provenance of their ingredients and the role of economics in enabling widescale uptake of organic and regenerative farming methods.  Prue Leith's Cotswold Kitchen launches on ITV1 and ITVX on Saturday 24th February, and you can find out more about autobiography I'll Try Anything Once here. To listen to more SFT podcasts, featuring some of the biggest names in regenerative food and farming, head to our main podcast page. And to keep up with our news, you can subscribe to our fortnightly newsletter or follow us on Instagram, X or Facebook.

It was a great pleasure to be joined by Patrick Holden for a conversation exploring the challenges and paths to creating food and farming systems that work in closer harmony with nature.Patrick is the founder and CEO of 'The Sustainable Food Trust' and he has a great range of insights to offer around this topic.We discuss what our diets would need to look like if we were to achieve a transition to sustainable and regenerative farming across the whole of the UK, along with the problem of dishonest pricing within our food system.We also touch on why Patrick is optimistic that change is possible due to a trend of more and more people taking an interest in the story of their food.Learn more about The Sustainable Food Trust here: https://sustainablefoodtrust.org/See the video version of this episode along with additional references mentioned here: https://www.wearecarbon.earth/patrick-holden-sustainable-food-trust----------------------More Formats from We Are Carbon: [Shorter Video Format] - From Healthy Soil Comes Healthy Food. With Claire Mackenzie: https://www.wearecarbon.earth/soil-health-and-regenerative-farming/[Story Telling Audio Format] - Soil (My Common Sense Take) : https://www.wearecarbon.earth/soil-path-to-whole-systems-thinking/Explore ways to support this content: https://www.wearecarbon.earth/your-support/----------------------For a further breakdown of this discussion see the timestamps below:00:00 Intro02:20 About Patrick03:27 Why is cheap food not really so cheap??11:50 True Cost Accounting15:16 The impact of food production on our energy & vitality22:55 Would we have enough food if all farming became regenerative?26:06 What does a sustainable diet look like?34:46 Multiple Approaches of The Sustainable Food Trust 44:59 What steps can a farmer take if they'd like to transition?48:07 Do you feel we're on track to move things forward?

As we reach the halfway point in this current series of the SFT podcast, Patrick Holden becomes the interviewee in a conversation with Dave Chapman on all things organic. Dave is the co-founder of the Real Organic Project, a farmer-led movement based in the US which aims to strengthen people's understanding of the organic movement, including the traditional values and practices. Dave has devoted much of his life to organic farming and is also the co-founder of Vermont Organic Farmers. In this episode, Patrick and Dave both share how they came to be involved in the organic movement in the UK and US respectively, and reflect on how the movement has changed over time and continues to develop across the world. Later on in the episode, they discuss the challenges associated with commercialising organic standards and how in doing so this risks diluting the philosophy and basic principles behind the movement. Speaking from the US, Dave also talks about how organic standards there have deteriorated in recent years with the rise of so-called organic CAFOs (concentrated animal feeding operations) and hydroponics, and how this could influence the organic standards of other countries around the world. To find out more about the Real Organic Project, visit https://realorganicproject.org. This episode is also available to listen to on the Real Organic Project's website here. To listen to more SFT podcasts, featuring some of the biggest names in regenerative food and farming, head to our main podcast page. And to keep up with our news, you can subscribe to our fortnightly newsletter or follow us on Instagram, X or Facebook.

#154: UK Soil Association trustee, Sustainable Food Trust co-founder, and organic dairy farmer Patrick Holden sits down with Dave to discuss the path forward for the organic movement, as activists on both sides of the pond try to inspire our governments and corporate powers to take note of our competence in the restoration of Earth's systems.Patrick Holden is a longtime member-turned-trustee of the Soil Association founded by Lady Eve Balfour. He is also the co-founder of the UK's Sustainable Food Trust, and a farmer in his own right. His family just celebrated their 50th year working the land on their organic dairy in Wales. Patrick is a kindred spirit in the decades-long Organic Movement, whose work is focused on the best ways to re-imagine and re-institute a food system that rewards true stewardship of the land, human health, and community.https://sustainablefoodtrust.org/about-us/ To watch a video version of this podcast with access to the full transcript and links relevant to our conversation, please visit:https://realorganicproject.org/patrick-holden-organic-needs-top-down-botttom-up-in-middle-action-episode-one-hundred-fifty-four/The Real Organic Podcast is hosted by Dave Chapman and Linley Dixon, engineered by Brandon StCyr, and edited and produced by Jenny Prince.The Real Organic Project is a farmer-led movement working towards certifying 1,000 farms across the United States this year. Our add-on food label distinguishes soil-grown fruits and vegetables from hydroponically-raised produce, and pasture-raised meat, milk, and eggs from products harvested from animals in horrific confinement (CAFOs - confined animal feeding operations).To find a Real Organic farm near you, please visit:https://www.realorganicproject.org/farmsWe believe that the organic standards, with their focus on soil health, biodiversity, and animal welfare were written as they should be, but that the current lack of enforcement of those standards is jeopardizing the ability for small farms who adhere to the law to stay in business. The lack of enforcement is also jeopardizing the overall health of the customers who support the organic movement; customers who are not getting what they pay for at market but still paying a premium price. And the lack of enforcement is jeopardizing the very cycles (water, air, nutrients) that Earth relies upon to provide us all with a place to live, by pushing extractive, chemical agriculture to the forefront.If you like what you hear and are feeling inspired, we would love for you to join our movement by becoming one of our 1,000  Real Friends:https://www.realorganicproject.org/real-organic-friends/To read our weekly newsletter (which might just be the most forwarded newsletter on the internet!) and get firsthand news about what's happening with organic food, farming and policy, please subscribe here:https://www.realorganicproject.org/email/

Kicking off the new year and marking our fourth episode in the latest SFT podcast series, Patrick Holden meets with Ian Wilkinson at this year's Oxford Real Farming Conference. Ian is the Managing Director of Cotswold Seeds which boasts a bespoke seed catalogue, supplying 15,000 farmers across the UK with green manures, cover crops, herbal leys and more. He is also the co-founder of FarmEd, an organisation based at Honeydale Farm, a diverse 107 acre mixed farm in the Cotswolds, operating as a space for education and connection around sustainable farming and food systems. During the episode, Patrick and Ian discuss the history behind events like the Oxford Farming Conference (OFC) and the Oxford Real Farming Conference (ORFC), recalling earlier iterations of both and how each has developed over time. Ian delves into the origins of organic seed, the evolution of Cotswold Seeds and the importance of demonstration farms as beacons for knowledge-sharing and on-farm education. Patrick and Ian also take a moment to highlight the potential of true cost accounting to reveal the hidden costs behind so-called ‘cheap food' and why good quality, organic food appears so expensive. To find out more about Cotswold Seeds, visit cotswoldseeds.com and for more information about FarmEd, visit farm-ed.co.uk. This episode doubles up as a dual podcast, in which Patrick and Ian both take turns interviewing one another. You can also listen to the episode on FarmEd's spotify channel here. To listen to more SFT podcasts, featuring some of the biggest names in regenerative food and farming, head to our main podcast page. And to keep up with our news, you can subscribe to our fortnightly newsletter or follow us on Instagram, X or Facebook.

For the third episode of the SFT podcast, and closing out 2023, Patrick Holden caught up with Sarah Langford – a criminal and family barrister, turned organic farmer and author of the critically acclaimed book, Rooted: How Regenerative Farming Can Change the World. Sarah spent 10 years as a barrister living in London, during which time she also wrote her debut book, the Sunday Times bestseller In Your Defence: Stories of Life and Law, to highlight the stories of those she represented and the legal system she was once a part of. In 2017, with her husband and two sons, she decided that it was time to leave the city and get back to the land in Suffolk, where she and her husband took on the management of his small, family farm. In this episode, Sarah shares with Patrick her journey from barrister to farmer, as well as her love of the land and belief in the power of farmer-to-farmer knowledge exchange in driving the transition to more sustainable systems. Finally, Sarah reflects on the life of her farming heroine, Lady Eve Balfour. You can find out more and keep up with Sarah by following her on Instagram (@sarahlangfordwrites) and X (@wigsandwords), or by visiting her website: www.sarahlangfordwrites.com. To listen to more SFT podcasts, featuring some of the biggest names in regenerative food and farming, head to our main podcast page. And to keep up with our news, you can subscribe to our fortnightly newsletter or follow us on Instagram, X or Facebook.

In this first episode, Patrick Holden meets Sophie Gregory – one of the UK's most prominent first-generation dairy farmers. With a passion for connecting more people with the origins of their food, Sophie talks to Patrick about how she first got into farming, her plans for her Nuffield scholarship on the future of organic, and why she feels education on food and farming is so essential. Want to find out more about Sophie and her farm? Find her on Instagram: @farmer_in_training To listen to more SFT podcasts, featuring some of the biggest names in regenerative food and farming, head to the main podcast page on our website at sustainablefoodtrust.org. And to keep up with our news, you can subscribe to our fortnightly newsletter or follow us on Instagram, X or Facebook @SusFoodTrust.

Phil Carson (Nature Friendly Farming Network) and ffinlo Costain (8point9.com) chew over the week's news. PHIL'S PICKS Higher consumption of UPFs increases the risk of cancer and long-term heart conditions https://8point9.com/higher-consumption-of-upfs-increases-the-risk-of-cancer-and-long-term-heart-conditions/ Investigating the “halo effect” of food claims https://8point9.com/investigating-the-halo-effect-of-food-claims/ Nitrogen fertiliser production outstrips global needs and exceeds planetary boundaries https://8point9.com/nitrogen-fertiliser-production-outstrips-global-needs-and-exceeds-planetary-boundaries/ FFINLO'S PICKS Diverse forests hold huge carbon potential if well managed https://8point9.com/diverse-forests-hold-huge-carbon-potential-if-well-managed/ #GetFairAboutFarming petition hits 75,000 signatures https://8point9.com/getfairaboutfarming-petition-hits-75000-signatures/ THE BIGGER STORIES Ruth Chambers, Green Alliance, New Defra Secretary https://8point9.com/ruth-chambers-green-alliance-new-defra-secretary/ Patrick Holden, A farmer's view, New Secretary of State https://8point9.com/patrick-holden-a-farmers-view-new-secretary-of-state/ AIC calls for independent committee to boost sustainable food security https://8point9.com/aic-calls-for-independent-committee-to-boost-sustainable-food-security/ The Wildlife Trusts lists the UK's Government's broken promises to nature https://8point9.com/the-wildlife-trusts-lists-the-uks-governments-broken-promises-to-nature/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/farmgate/message

Interviews with: Ruth Chambers from the Green Alliance. Patrick Holden from the Sustainable Food Trust. And Leonardo Gava from the Climate Bonds Initiative --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/farmgate/message

This is the second instalment of our two-part debate, with George Monbiot, Guardian columnist, environmental campaigner and author of Regenesis: Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet, arguing for the motion We Should All Go Vegan. Patrick Holden, Founder and chief executive of the Sustainable Food Trust, argues against it. Our chair is Alice Thomson, Columnist and interviewer at The Times. Livestock farming contributes 14.5% of human-produced greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. Farm animals belch out massive amounts of methane, one of the most harmful greenhouse gases. They are also extremely wasteful of resources, using up 83% of farmland worldwide while providing only 18% of our calories, guzzling soya and grain that could feed humans more efficiently, and requiring vast amounts of water. As for our health, vegan sports stars such as Venus and Serena Williams and Lewis Hamilton prove that you can be superfit on a plant-based diet, and research has linked vegan diets to lower rates of some diseases. That's the argument made by the vegan lobby. But there are many experts who disagree on all counts. Take the environment. Few people realise the high carbon cost of growing crops – some 15-20% of the world's CO2 output comes from ploughing – and that plants grown for food require vast amounts of fertiliser and pesticides that are derived from fossil fuels. Who's right and who's wrong?  We'd love to hear your feedback and what you think we should talk about next, who we should have on and what our future debates should be.  Send us an email or voice note with your thoughts to podcasts@intelligencesquared.com or Tweet us @intelligence2.  And if you'd like to support our mission to foster honest debate and compelling conversations, as well as ad-free podcasts, exclusive bonus content, early access and much more, become a supporter of Intelligence Squared. Just visit intelligencesquared.com/membership to find out more.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this two-part debate, George Monbiot, Guardian columnist, environmental campaigner and author of Regenesis: Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet, argues for the motion We Should All Go Vegan. Patrick Holden, Founder and chief executive of the Sustainable Food Trust, argues against it. Our chair is Alice Thomson, Columnist and interviewer at The Times. Livestock farming contributes 14.5% of human-produced greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. Farm animals belch out massive amounts of methane, one of the most harmful greenhouse gases. They are also extremely wasteful of resources, using up 83% of farmland worldwide while providing only 18% of our calories, guzzling soya and grain that could feed humans more efficiently, and requiring vast amounts of water. As for our health, vegan sports stars such as Venus and Serena Williams and Lewis Hamilton prove that you can be superfit on a plant-based diet, and research has linked vegan diets to lower rates of some diseases. That's the argument made by the vegan lobby. But there are many experts who disagree on all counts. Take the environment. Few people realise the high carbon cost of growing crops – some 15-20% of the world's CO2 output comes from ploughing – and that plants grown for food require vast amounts of fertiliser and pesticides that are derived from fossil fuels. Who's right and who's wrong?  We'd love to hear your feedback and what you think we should talk about next, who we should have on and what our future debates should be.  Send us an email or voice note with your thoughts to podcasts@intelligencesquared.com or Tweet us @intelligence2.  And if you'd like to support our mission to foster honest debate and compelling conversations, as well as ad-free podcasts, exclusive bonus content, early access and much more, become a supporter of Intelligence Squared. Just visit intelligencesquared.com/membership to find out more.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An aristocrat in an eye patch, a jazz saxophonist, a crime novelist and a pioneering organic farmer. Lady Eve Balfour was born in 1898 into the political elite - her uncle was A J Balfour, who was Prime Minister from 1902-05. But from the age of 12 she wanted to be a farmer and, after studying at agricultural college, made her dream a reality. She started experimenting with organic farming, and eventually published a book called The Living Soil, which lead to her founding the organic farming body, the Soil Association. Seen as somewhat of a crank, she faced opposition from fellow farmers and politicians alike. Meanwhile, her personal life was as fascinating as her agricultural life. She lived in a run-down farmhouse with her female partner, played saxophone in a jazz band and co-authored a series of best-selling crime novels. Presenter, Matthew Parris, is joined by former Director of the Soil Association, Patrick Holden, and Sarah Langford, a farmer and author who claims a "borderline obsession" with Lady Eve. Produced for BBC Audio in Bristol by Heather Simons

Welcome to News Week from 8point9.com - I'm ffinlo Costain. We've got two great interviews for you, each about really important subjects. Now, you may noticed that the normal Farm Gate podcast has become a little more intermittent while we've been getting 8.9 hectares up and running - please do stay subscribed as we have some fantastic interviews and discussions planned for the coming weeks and months. But - to make life easy - our News Week programme and Farm Gate will both be available for you on the same channel. THIS WEEK - Glastir Organic funding - Patrick Holden - and nutrient neutrality - Dr Gabriel Connor-Streich. MORE NEWS AT 8point9.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/farmgate/message

As the brand behind products including Ben and Jerry's, Hellmann's and Marmite, Unilever represents an important opportunity to scale a circular economy for food. In this episode, we'll hear from the company's Vice President & Managing Director, Eric Soubeiran, about how the business is shifting towards a regenerative and nature-positive approach in the creation of its products. We'll also hear from The Sustainable Food Trust's Patrick Holden, who partnered with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation to launch the Big Food Redesign Challenge earlier this year. Join the Big Food Redesign ChallengeListen to the Redesigning Food series

In this episode, Aruni talks to Patrick Holden, CBE  a UK organic dairy farmer, campaigner for sustainable food and farming, and co-founder with Anthony Rodale of U.K. The Sustainable Food Trust and U.S. Sustainable Food Alliance. They discuss how Patricks  interest in farming were sown during his London childhood. Holden kept a variety of animals, ranging from mice and rabbits to budgerigars and myna birds, and would spend hours in his back garden studying the amphibians that migrated to the ponds he had dug as a boy. And about in n 1971, aged 20, Holden when he spent a year in the San Francisco Bay Area and how he was strongly influenced by the green movement that was gathering momentum at the time. As a result, Holden returned to the UK and worked for a year on an intensive dairy fam in Hampshire before studying biodynamic agriculture at Emerson College (UK).Holden then joined the back-to-the-land movement in 1973 and, using the knowledge gained from his childhood, studies and experiences in California, formed a community farm in Bwlchwernen, Wales. After the community dispersed, Holden continued to run the farm now known as Holden Farm Dairy - now the longest established organic dairy farm in Wales. Enterprises have included an 80 cow Ayrshire herd, the milk from which goes to produce Hafod, a cheddar style cheese; oats and peas; wheat for flour milling; and carrots which he grew for supermarkets for 25 years.Alongside farming, Holden's other work has included the development of organic standards and the market for organic foods, founding British Organic Farmers, trustee of the Soil Association, and director of the Soil Association (1995-2010). He is also a patron of the UK Biodynamic Agricultural Association and The Living Land Trust, as well as an advisor and participant in the Prince of Wales Terra Carta initiative. In 2010, Holden founded the Sustainable Food Trust, an organisation based in Bristol, UK that works internationally to accelerate the transition towards more sustainable food systems. Key activities of the organisation include influencing government policy on sustainable agriculture; advocacy for true cost accounting; development of an internationally harmonised framework and metric for measuring on-farm sustainability; campaigning for the re-localisation of supply chains, including small abattoirs; and linking healthy diets to sustainable food production.

We have all seen God working in our lives, however, we might not all be aware it is God who is working in our lives.  This is why it is so important we start talking about it more.  The more we share our experiences the more people understand how God works and how much He truly loves us.  If you would be willing to share any experience you have had of how God has worked or is working your life, please email me at catherine@findingtruenorthcoaching.com or just click here.  It won't take up much of your time and your story could be just the story that someone needs to hear today.  Prayerfully consider sharing.  Everyone has a story and the world needs to hear them.  I look forward to spending time with you again tomorrow and I will have another witness for you next Wednesday.  Remember Jesus loves you and so do I. Have a blessed day!This morning when I got up I was not sure what I was going to witness about.  I thought perhaps Tony's friend who is in the ICU and has had several miracles over the last 20 days.  However, something was holding me back so I prayed about it and I felt like the Lord wanted me to talk about how we have been blessed with so much support over the years.  We had our first child, Sam, 19 years ago in the country of Turkey.  We had been living there just about 2 years and we were moving back to the United States a few weeks after we had Sam.  At the time we were in Turkey you could either have your child at a Turkish hospital or you could do something called Stork Nesting, where you would go to Landstuhl in Germany at about 36 weeks and stay there so you could deliver your baby at an American hospital since they didn't have one at our base in Turkey.  I did not want to leave Tony while I was 36 weeks pregnant and go to Germany so we decided to have our first baby at a Turkish hospital.  We had taken a tour and it looked like a good hospital.  We knew several people who had babies there and had a good experience.  My water broke exactly on Sam's due date in the middle of the night.  However, I wasn't having any contractions, so we went to Tony's work and called people back in the states to let them know that today was the day.  We went back home and got ready to go to the hospital.  We had a nurse friend who told us by 7 am to go to the hospital even though I wasn't having contractions.  We went to the hospital and the doctor started me on petocin to get the labor started.  Once it was time they took me into to the room to have the baby and Sam wouldn't come out.  They had to do a c-section after trying a few different things.  Sam was born and he was beautiful.  The next hurdle was to figure out breast feeding.  I had read in books that there will be people at the hospital to help you if you have trouble.  My nurse at the hospital was a 19 year old girl who had no idea about breast feeding.  Luckily the base had a breast feeding counselor and once I got home she was able to come and help me figure it out.  The military has a tradition of brining meals to a family if they have just had a baby, or someone is in the hospital, or if one of the parents is away for a while.  It was so nice to not have to worry about cooking and trying to take care of this little baby.  God was so good to send the perfect people into our lives over the years.  We happened to be really good friends with a nurse and had two other nurses next door to us.  One day when they were visiting they said Sam's eye looked like it had too much gunk in it.  We were told his eye might be goopy, so we didn't think anything of it.  However, when they saw it they told us to take him in to be seen.  Sure enough he had some infection in his eye and needed ointment.  Tony and I were both first time parents, we were so nervous as he was just a little baby and the doctor told us we would need to pull down the bottom part of his eye and put a thin line of ointment.  Tony and I both shouted “Not it.” at the same time.  The doctor looked at us and said, “you know one of you has to be it, right?” We explained we were just nervous and so he was so kind and demonstrated it for us.  Sam didn't cry at all and we saw that it was super easy.  We were in NJ when we had our second child, Noah.  Well, I was in NJ, Tony happened to be in Colorado for a class.  He was coming back in a few days.  When I was thinking about writing about Noah's birth I wasn't even thinking about how God orchestrated the events leading up the birth so that I wasn't alone in the operating room.  We had a planned c-section with Noah.  He was going to be born on All Saints Day, November 1st.  That was one week before he was due and they like to schedule c-sectioned earlier than your due date.  Tony had a class he had to go to in Colorado and he had made sure we had a back up person to help out in case he was gone.  The only thing is that she was busy from October 14-19th because she was away on a retreat.  My sister Elizabeth and her husband and young daughter, along with my older sister Dianne decided to come visit for a few days.  They were only coming down for three days, they were visiting from October 17-20th. They were supposed to get there on Monday afternoon and yet hit traffic and came in Monday night.  I had an event that night on base so I say a brief hi to them and then went to my event on base.  That night we hung out and watched TV together.  I couldn't sleep that night I was having some sort of pain.  I thought it was gas pain but in the morning I decided to go to my doctor's office just to have it checked out.  Tony happened to call when I was there and the doctor told him I was fine.  I wasn't having any contractions and all was good.  Then she did an exam and noticed I was a bit more dilated than she thought so she sent me to the hospital just to be checked out.  She told me she was sure I wasn't having the baby today.  Luckily my sister Dianne had driven me to the doctor's office.  By the time we got to the hospital, which was about 5 minutes away, my contractions were so strong I couldn't walk into the hospital.  The doctor came in and told me I was having this baby today.  I wanted to wait for Tony but he was in Colorado and wouldn't make it in time.  My sister Dianne agreed to come in the OR with me for the c-section so I wouldn't be in there alone.  Dianne did not want to have any children of her own, so it was neat that she got to be in the OR with me while I gave birth.  She got to be the first person to hold our son Noah and that was really special.  I was still recovering from the C-section and waiting for the sedation to wear off so I didn't get to hold him right away.  Next thing we know he is under the warming lights and the nurse said he was breathing different.  They took him to the NICU and I didn't get to see him for over 24 hours.  Tony came in that night and went to see Noah.  We didn't have a name at that point because we were deciding between Noah Alexander and Patrick Holden.  I didn't know what he looked like, I only saw him briefly.  The next day I tried to go visit Noah but when I stood up I felt dizzy so the nurse wouldn't let me go.  I think I tried twice before I was able to go see him.  He was so sweet.  He was not really gaining weight and they wanted to put a feeding tube in but we asked them to hold off and I fed him.  He was eating but it was talking him a long time.  We decided to do breastfeeding every other meal and bottle feeding on the alternates meals. This way he could get more rest after he bottle fed.  It was hard to see Noah in the NICU and yet we knew God was with us.  At one point they said if he didn't gain a certain amount of weight by a certain time then they would put in a feeding tube, and he did gain the weight.  We were able to avoid the feeding tube.  God was there every step of the way with Noah.  Every test he had to pass in the NICU he passed with flying colors.  I believe he was in the NICU for 9 days.  Those were very long days and yet we were blessed because he wasn't very sick and we knew he would be ok.  The same is not true for every baby in the NICU.  God was there with us and also sent people to help take care of us and take care of Sam.  My mom and dad came down to keep an eye on Sam when Tony and I were in the hospital.  We would both sleep at the hospital for the first several days.  When we went to every other feeding we went home to sleep as there was another couple who needed the room we were using.  Our friends brought meals again so we didn't have to worry about food and my parents didn't either.  The birth of our third son was a planned c-section and my parents were in town to help watch Sam and Noah while we were in the hospital.  This birth went off without a hitch.  Everything went as planned and we stayed in the hospital just a few days to recuperate from the C-section and then headed home.  Our family was complete.  God is so good.  He has been with us throughout each of the pregnancies and through all of the births.  I know they all worked out as they were supposed to and God sent so many good people to be there for us and to help us when we needed it.  Sometimes we don't realize that our friends, family and co-workers are a gift from God.  We don't realize that not everyone has that support.  I think this is why I try so hard to check in with people who I know are struggling.  Why I check up after people I know have a procedure.  This is why I text and check  in to see how those I know are doing.  I have been blessed, even though we moved around a lot, to have a great support network.  I know that is a blessing and a grace that not everyone has.  I also know I take it for granted sometimes and I am grateful for days like today when God reminds me how lucky I am.  If you are lucky enough to have a support network, people who look out for you and help you, then I ask you to be that for someone else who might not have that.  Who is one person you know that could use a friend, or even just a helping hand, or even just an ear to talk to.  Kindness and checking in on people is more important than you think.  After writing this I went on a quick run and I heard a song that goes perfectly with Witness Wednesday.  I will put the lyrics in the show notes along with a link so you can listen to the song if you have time.  The words are so great, if you have time, check it out and maybe think about how we can be more impressed throughout the day with God's miracles.  Blown Away By Josh Wilson (Click Here to listen)Yea She's dancing like a crazy fool From the kitchen to the dining roomAnd she tells me, 'Baby, life is way too short to be too cool.'She says, ‘When did we get so serious? Can we just all stop acting unimpressed?'There's a hundred million miracles in front of us passing by God open my eyesI wanna be blown away! By your extraordinary grace every ordinary dayBlown away! By your great big love in every little placeI wanna slow down look around God please show me how to stop and be amazedI wanna be blown away! Blown away! I want to see a sunset And have to stop and catch my breathO I never want to forget How you take a dead heart and bring back to life again Oh! When did we get so serious? Can we just all stop acting unimpressed?'There's a hundred million miracles in front of us passing by God open my eyesI wanna be blown away! By your extraordinary grace every ordinary dayBlown away! By your great big love in every little placeI wanna slow down look around God please show me how to stop and be amazedI wanna be blown away! Blown away! The Earth is full of heaven 'Cause you're always breaking throughPut the wonder back inside these eyes God, I don't want to miss you When did we get so serious? Can we just all stop acting unimpressed?'There's a hundred million miracles in front of us passing by God open my eyesI wanna be blown away! By your extraordinary grace every ordinary dayBlown away! By your great big love in every little placeI wanna slow down look around God please show me how to stop and be amazedI wanna be blown away! Blown away! 

For this episode of Carbon& we're joined by Patrick Holden of the Sustainable Food Trust, and Jenn Yates of the True Cost Accounting Accelerator to provide an overview of True Cost Accounting and its relevance to the food industry. We cover the basics of True Cost Accounting, how it applies to the food industry, and why it's becoming increasingly important in today's rapidly changing CPG landscape. This episode features Jenn Yates, Director at TCA Accelerator, and Patrick Holden, Founding Director at Sustainable Food Trust. This episode is moderated by Leah Wolfe, Head of Regenerative Education & Content at HowGood. HowGood is a SaaS data platform with the world's largest product sustainability database. To learn more about how we can help leading brands, retailers and restaurants improve their environmental and social impact, visit our website.

So you are really passionate about regenerative, sustainable agriculture and food, right? And how many times have you heard, "Yes, that's all very nice but you couldn't feed the world that way; it wouldn't work at scale!"In this episode I talk to Sir Patrick Holden, the man who's building the roadmap to show us that it could.You'll hear us talk about his latest research into how the UK could feed itself using fertiliser/pesticide-free sustainable agriculture (with no grain-fed animals!), the tools to take this global, and how this lifetime campaigner for sustainable animal-involved agriculture feels about lab meat, supermarkets, ground-up change and much more.We're so grateful to him for sharing a little of his 50 year career as both a farmer and an activist with us.Our podcast has a patreon community! Our patrons get an additional private podcast, a library of recipes/guides, 1:1 access to us via a chat forum and monthly live get-togethers and to share/learn from each other.Come, join us! From $5 a month you'll be helping with the costs of keeping the podcast going and you'll get to be part of our world at a much deeper level.What We Talk About:* The Sustainable Food Trust's recent report 'Feeding Britain From The Ground Up'* How the UK could grow its staple foods using regenerative agriculture* The roadblocks in the way of this change and how we can address them* The metric being developed that would allow farmers worldwide to measure their sustainability using the same framework* Whether there's a role for laboratory-generated meat in a sustainable food future* Whether this shift needs to come from top-down or bottom-up* What, if you can't give them up, you need to be asking the supermarkets you shop at* What Sir Patrick thinks we need now in order to create the change5* reviews on Apple Podcasts, mean the world to us!Here's how you can leave one:Open the Apple Podcast appFind Ancestral Kitchen Podcast in your libraryScroll down to 'ratings and reviews'Click on 'write a review', give us 5*s and then tell us why you love listening in the box below Resources: Download The Sustainable Food Trust's report 'Feeding Britain From The Ground Up' here. There are three videos that succinctly and clearly explain the report and its findings: Introduction video, What We'd Eat video, and Potential Stumbling Blocks video SFT on Instagram Patrick's farm on Instagram Come find us on Instagram:Andrea is at Farm and HearthAlison is at

One of the many inspiring speakers at the Integrative and Personalised Medicine conference this year was Patrick Holden, Founding Director and Chief Executive of the Sustainable Food Trust. Patrick's session really resonated with me as he shared his passion about the application of Nature's principles of Harmony to food and farming. I am thrilled that Patrick agreed to join me in a podcast this season to discuss why our food system is in desperate need of reform. With nearly 50 years of farming experience, Holden Farm Dairy is now the longest established organic dairy farm in West Wales. As well as being hands-on at the farm, his role at the Sustainable Food Trust works towards accelerating the transition towards more sustainable food systems and influencing government policy - he only recently returned from COP27. I'm so grateful to Patrick for his time to talk about how sustainable food systems directly impact our health - there's plenty that we can all learn and do to support sustainability.

As we do each year, we've curated a list of the Accidental Gods' favourite podcast and books of 2022.  Enjoy!Podcasts Nate Hagens The Great Simplification - fourth of four (so far) with Daniel Schmachtenbergerhttps://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-great-simplification-with-nate-hagens/id1604218333?i=1000583952697The Sustainable Food Trust episode with Dr Michael Antoniouhttps://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-sustainable-food-trust-podcast/id1511133906?i=1000559083233/Global Governance Futures with Jacqueline McGladehttps://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/global-governance-futures-imperfect-utopias-or-bust/id1548522280?i=1000544342241ITS BLOODY COMPLICATED by Compass - Episode with Byron Fay of Climate 200https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/its-bloody-complicated-a-compass-podcast/id1502390267?i=1000582130469Catherine Weetman Circular Economy Podcast Catherine musing on sustainabilty https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/circular-economy-podcast/id1465879853?i=1000583550758Catherine with Simon Hombersely of Xampla https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/circular-economy-podcast/id1465879853?i=1000582020564The rest is politics w Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart - episode w Mark Drakefordhttps://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-rest-is-politics/id1611374685?i=1000579634739Non-Fiction Books The Club on the Edge of Town - Alan Lane https://salamanderstreet.com/product/the-club-on-the-edge-of-town-paperback/Flourish - Sarah Ichioka and Michael Pawlynhttps://www.triarchypress.net/flourish.htmlhttps://www.flourish-book.comA People's Green New Deal - Max Ajlhttps://www.plutobooks.com/9780745341750/a-peoples-green-new-deal/Our Farming Life - Lynn Cassells and Sandra Baerhttps://chelseagreen.co.uk/book/our-wild-farming-life/(also A Dairy Story - David and Wilma Finlay of The Ethical Dairy)https://www.theethicaldairy.co.uk/cheese-shop/dairy-storyLouis Weinstock: How the World is Making our Children Mad and What to Do about ithttps://louisweinstock.com/how-the-world-is-making-our-children-mad-and-what-to-do-about-it/https://www.naominovik.com/2022/09/published-today-the-golden-enclaves/The Barn at the End of the World by Mary Rose O'Reilley The Apprenticeship of a Quaker Buddhist Shepherdhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Barn-End-World-Apprenticeship-Buddhist/dp/1571312544Novels The Kingdoms - Natasha Pulley https://natashapulley.co.uk/books/ and https://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-kingdoms/9781526623119Tuyo - Rachel Neumeier https://www.rachelneumeier.com/writing/tuyo/Kingdom of Silence Jonathan Grimwood (also Jack Grimwood and Jon Courtenay Grimwood) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kingdom-Silence-Jonathan-Grimwood-ebook/dp/B086R544MD/Naomi Novik - The Golden Enclaves - Lesson 3 in the Scholomance Trilogyhttps://www.naominovik.com/2022/09/published-today-the-golden-enclaves/The Stranger Times by CK McDonnell (also The Dublin Trilogy by Caimh McDonnell) BUNNY McGARRYhttps://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-stranger-times-the-stranger-times-1/9780552177344https://whitehairedirishman.comalso Kevin Hearn Ink and Sigil series https://kevinhearne.com/books/ink-sigil/

Our next programme will be out next week, but forgive me if I take a moment to let you know about a Food & Global Security Network panel event that we're running online on Thursday the 7th of July. It's called Lessons from Ukraine - we have a fantastic panel of experts - there's no charge, and you can book a place through our website at foodandsecurity.net What does war in Ukraine, and the global response to conflict, tell us about global food production and the structural weaknesses in food systems more broadly? Is this conflict a taste of things to come, as major food and fossil fuel-producing nations begin to strategically reposition their economies? And what does the response to this conflict tell us about the power of the agricultural lobby and the levels of global policy support for an agroecological transition? I'll be joined by Chantal Clement from IPES Food, Patrick Holden from the Sustainable Food Trust, Joona Mikkola from Soil Watch, Sue Pritchard from the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission, and Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin from the Regenerative Agriculture Alliance. Please sign up to join us for the conversation at foodandsecurity.net --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/farmgate/message

The global population is sustained by fragile food systems that are wreaking havoc with the environment and public health. Food systems contribute to and are significantly affected by climate change but they are also a crucial part of the solution. In this final episode of Spilling the Beans we spoke to Patrick Holden, Founding Director of the Sustainable Food Trust and Patty Fong, the Program Director for Climate and Health & Well-being at Global Alliance for the Future of Food about how and why we need to rethink food systems. Produced in partnership with Sustainable Foods Event. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Climate friendly farming doesn't just impact the food on our plates. This week's guest, fashion designer Anya Hindmarch, recognises that the fashion industry's huge part to play in reducing waste and the use of toxic chemicals, and sourcing materials in a more sustainable way.  Anya explains to Patrick how she was inspired by the closed-loop system that exists in nature to design a compostable leather bag, addressing the difficulties of sourcing regenerative hides, and using methods of production which prevent the leech of chemicals into the soil when the bag comes to the end of its life.  Patrick and Anya discuss the potential of the Global Farm Metric to translate into clear standards and labelling for customers wishing to shop sustainably - so watch this space! 

All the food we eat is designed. Food brands and supermarkets design everything we eat — how it looks and tastes, and how good it is for us and for nature. The top ten food brands and supermarkets influence 40% of agricultural land use in the UK and EU — which means they have the power to make nature-positive food the norm.So, what do we mean by ‘regenerative natural systems' — and how does it tackle global challenges including climate change and biodiversity loss?In this episode, Patrick Holden, Founding Director of the Sustainable Food Trust, joins us to discuss the role of leading food companies in adopting regenerative agricultural practices, the role of farmers, and the role of policy and finance in supporting the scaled transformation towards regenerative farming — plus the need for clear metrics and labelling to help consumers understand how nature-friendly their food is.--Watch Patrick in conversation with the Foundation's Emma ChowCatch up on the 'Fix the economy, fix the climate' session from Summit 21Find out more about the Ellen MacArthur FoundationFollow the Ellen MacArthur Foundation online:YouTubeTwitterLinkedInFacebookInstagram

In partnership with Peter's Yard petersyard.com - Remarkably, liquid milk is the starting point for all cheese. I talk about milk for cheesemaking with two remarkable figures in the British food scene: Bronwen Percival, cheese buyer for Neal's Yard Dairy and co-author of Reinventing the Wheel, and Patrick Holden of Holden Farm Dairy, maker of a raw milk cheese called Hafod, and founding director of the Sustainable Food Trust. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Patrick Holden speaks to Simon Fairlie, farmer and former co-editor of The Ecologist magazine. The two discuss Simon's new book, Going to Seed, plus advice on how anyone can get involved in the world of agriculture. Simon advises, “Go WWOOFing and make connections, plus renting land is a lot cheaper than buying. Younger people come to our farm who are looking for something different in farming generally, and they go onto work at others places and get more accomplished, and perhaps they go and establish their own farm.”

In the first episode of our new podcast series, Patrick Holden, CEO of the Sustainable Food Trust is joined by life-long activist and former monk, Satish Kumar, who has been inspiring global change for over 50 years. In his 20s, Satish undertook a peace-pilgrimage for nuclear disarmament, walking without money from India to America. Now in his 80s, Satish has devoted his life to campaigning for ecological regeneration, social justice and spiritual fulfilment. An acclaimed author and international speaker, Satish founded The Resurgence Trust, an educational charity that seeks a just future for all. To join Satish in protecting people and planet become a member of Resurgence (with 20% off), entitling you to this charity's change-making magazine, Resurgence & Ecologist.  

Patrick Holden is the Founding Director and Chief Executive of the Sustainable Food Trust.After studying biodynamic agriculture at Emerson College, he established a mixed community farm in Wales in 1973, producing at various times: wheat for flour production sold locally, carrots and milk from an 85 cow Ayrshire dairy herd, now made into a single farm cheddar style cheese.He was the founding chairman of British Organic Farmers in 1982, before joining the Soil Association, where he worked for nearly 20 years and during which time the organisation led the development of organic standards and the market for organic foods.His advocacy for a major global transition to more sustainable food systems now entails international travel and regular broadcasts and talks at public events.He is Patron of the UK Biodynamic Association and was awarded the CBE for services to organic farming in 2005.Patrick is passionate about the application of Nature's principles of Harmony to food and farming, which is explored in the SFT's latest initiative, The Harmony Project.In this episode, Patrick talks about the work of the Sustainable Food Trust in building a commons-based trust network which can co-create a global farm metric to assess farms around the world for their environmental impact in all ways.  With this, farms can really begin to assess their own impact, and political institutions across the world can begin to rewards farms and farmers for restoring our land to the extraordinary fertility and abundance that we used to take for granted.  Links Sustainable Food Trust https://sustainablefoodtrust.org/Patrick's Farm: https://holdenfarmdairy.co.uk/Patrick's Farm on social media:  https://www.instagram.com/hafodcheese/https://www.facebook.com/Holden-Farm-Dairy-100227754976198/https://twitter.com/hafodcheese

How do we culturally value nature? We talk things over and catch up with Patrick Holden - founder of The Sustainable Food Trust, Prof Ian Bradley - Cultural Historian and Isabelle Doussan - Legal Expert... Episode show notes: https://linktr.ee/prophets_wizards_pod

This week Dr's Brendan, Conor & Nick are talking to Patrick Holden from the Sustainable Food Trust to discuss why producing meat for our companions can be an integral part in creating a sustainable farming system. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this latest episode, Patrick Holden is joined by Andy Cato, musician and farmer. From gigs to diverse grains, Andy describes his journey into farming and why he founded Wildfarmed.

In this week's podcast, Patrick Holden is joined by Thomasina Miers, co-founder of restaurant chain Wahaca, which has won numerous awards for its food and sustainability credentials. Thomasina's passion lies in food and the environment, co-founding the Pig Idea in 2015 in an effort to tackle food waste, she is a trustee of Chefs in Schools and is an ambassador for the Soil Association. In 2019 she was awarded an OBE for services to the food industry, and continues to be a pioneer of sustainability in the world of hospitality and beyond.

Was COP26 in Glasgow a success? In this programme we do a stock take. What was achieved at COP26 – in terms of global warming and agricultural land use? What was missing? What was fundamentally misunderstood at the top table? And what do we need to do next, to ensure that an agroecological transition is lifted firmly onto the negotiating table at COP27 and beyond? ffinlo Costain, the founder of the Food & Global Security Network, is joined by Sue Pritchard, the chief executive of the Food, Farming & Countryside Commission, and Patrick Holden, the founder of the Sustainable Food Trust. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/farmgate/message

In this episode of the Future Church Podcast, Carrie Williams (Special Projects Director for Exponential) talks with Patrick Holden of Nuvo Church. Nuvo began as a church plant with 3 families living in different parts of the country who wanted to launch in Columbus, OH. By utilizing social media, Nuvo was able to launch during the Pandemic through digital services, digital groups, in person groups, and pop-up gatherings in different parts of the city. Their “hope is to create a scalable model of in person gatherings, partnered with a unique digital presence to reach agnostics and people de-constructing their faith”. Listen to Episode 5 of the podcast and access the show notes below. Future Church Insights: 1. Patrick explains the unusual start to Nuvo and how that has led to a strong launch team.   Patrick and his team were still in different parts of the country and had yet to move to Columbus. His base church allowed him to stay on staff but also begin fundraising and building a team for the church plant in Columbus. By connecting with people around Columbus through Facebook groups, Patrick and the rest of the team cold called people to gain a better understanding of the city and its needs. From these conversations, they were able to build about half of their launch team. 2. Patrick highlights some of the ways they were able to reach people through Social Media. Building from what his team learned from Tony Morgan, they began creating “Content Offers” on social media. For example, they posted a series of videos during the election debates about how to survive the election. This was a way to reach an audience and capture email addresses for future events. 3. Patrick is constantly learning from Social Media. He talks about studying TikTok accounts to see how to communicate a lot of information in just a minute. Patricks says that continuing to learn and study and grow in this area has been an important part of their church plant. Goals and Desired Outcomes of Nuvo Create a scalable approach to live/in-person gatherings that models financial sustainability and fuels exponential versions of live expressions. Create an online presence that encapsulates multiple avenues of content offering and communal development. Provide helpful and thought-provoking content for the person who is currently deconstructing their faith and/or the person who would now identify as agnostic. Build a sustainable model that fuels internal campus-ing and external church planting with like-minded leaders in similar city situations. Develop discipleship pathways for kids/teenagers that equips them for a faith of their own after high school. Links:  Nuvo Church More of a reader? Download the transcription here. Key Quotes from the episode from Patrick Holden: “I would just say for every communicator, the temptation is a pandemic kind of, it's slowing in some ways, is to go back to what we've always done. I would say we've got to be great students of great communicators that do it in different ways than we do.” (21:44) “I think the biggest challenge is learning to speak the language of a generation that's coming behind us. I think it's changing so fast. I think there's a temptation to want to appear cool or whatever that is, which is all good. Again, we have moving lights, we have an ... It's not a not cool thing, but the language and the needs are continually shifting.” (22:20) “I would encourage pastors [by saying], "God knew that you would be a pastor in 2021 and 2020." And as difficult as it can be, I think there's a part of going, "God called you to do what He called you to do, but He likely called you to do it when He called you to do it." (25:20)

In episode six of the Sustainable Food Stories podcast series, Patrick Holden is joined by Gunhild Stordalen, founder and executive chair of the EAT Foundation and one of the world's leading environmentalists and food campaigners. On the eve of COP26, Patrick and Gunhild discuss how the world can transition into a more sustainable food system, and by working together, will help advance this transition.

In this latest Sustainable Food Trust podcast, Patrick Holden talks to Sue Pritchard, Chief Executive of the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission (FFCC) and a fellow, organic farmer in Wales. On the premises of Fir Farm in the Cotswolds, Patrick talks to Sue about her journey into farming, from her Welsh heritage, to attending Atlantic College, and later becoming the Chief Executive of the FFCC.

What are the steps for creating a regenerative farm? Matt is joined by Farmer and Founding Director of the Sustainable Food Trust, Patrick Holden, and Agriculture Project Manager at EIT Food, Philip Fernández, to discuss regenerative agriculture. If you are interested in improving soil health and increasing biodiversity through sustainable food production, then this podcast is for you.

In this episode, Garrison is joined once again by returning guest Dr. Patrick Holden of the University of Plymouth to discuss the state of Brexit as the West begins to try and plan for life beyond the pandemic. In particular, the two focus on the state of the Northern Ireland Protocol, including its continuing impact on the trading relations between the U.K. and the EU, as well as the disruption to internal British flow of goods. They also discuss the potential impacts of the announcement of a global minimum tax on corporations first presented at the G7 Cornwall Summit, including how that program might highlight and fuel populist views within the EU. They close by gauging the success of how the U.K.'s first domestically hosted post-Brexit, in-person major international summit reflected on the newly-minted status of “Global Britain”. Dr. Patrick Holden is an Associate Professor (Reader) of the School of Law, Criminology and Government (Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business) at the University of Plymouth, U.K. He is the author of numerous academic articles, and conducts research and teaching in relation to International Political Economy, the European Union in the World, International Development Policy, Global Governance and Regional Integration, as well as the Brexit process. Garrison Moratto is the founder and host of The New Diplomatist Podcast; he holds a M.S. of International Relations as well as a B.S. in Government: Public Administration (Summa Cum Laude) from Liberty University in the United States. He will be a Ph.D. candidate in Public Policy - Foreign Policy at Liberty University beginning August 2021, focusing on U.S.-Portuguese relations. All guest opinions are their own and not that of The New Diplomatist podcast formally. Join us on social media, and be sure to subscribe to the podcast and leave a review on your favorite podcast app. Thank you for listening. Episode originally recorded: June 29th, 2021. Published: July 8th, 2021

In the opening episode of our new podcast series, Patrick Holden is joined by vegetarian cook and bestselling author, Anna Jones. The conversation begins by exploring a question that is on the minds of many, ‘what should I eat to be healthy and sustainable?'. While Anna and Patrick's responses to the question differ slightly, they remain for the most part united by a shared goal – the transition to more sustainable food systems.

Patrick and Emily Holden have committed their lives to building the Church. They are passionate about introducing people to Jesus through the life-transforming message of the Gospel. Together with their 2 kids and a heart for Columbus, they are pioneering Nuvo Church with the mission to create spaces for people to explore and integrate faith. Prior to launching Nuvo, they served as leaders at Kensington Church and North Point Community Church. In Episode 92 Patrick shares his story and why they are launching Nuvo Church here in Columbus, Ohio. We get real. We get honest and as always, it's Unscripted. Thank you Patrick for joining me. Love your heart and what you are doing for the City of Columbus. https://www.nuvochurch.org/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/aaronconrad/support

In the final podcast of the series, Patrick Holden speaks to John Sauven, the Executive Director of Greenpeace, about transforming food and farming systems in order to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss - touching on the land sparing vs land sharing debate, as well as true cost accounting and sustainable diets.

In this week's podcast, Patrick Holden speaks to Dr Zach Bush – the internationally renowned, multi-disciplinary physician, founder of Farmers' Footprint. Together, they discuss the intricate intersections between the microbiome, nutrition and chronic diseases, highlighting the devastating impact of chemical herbicides and pesticides on both soil and human health.

We've been preaching and teaching to a camera for about a year now. What have we learned? How do we get more effective communicating to a digital audience? How do we get more comfortable with the lens? Are there better methods for our communication? Join Jeff, Rey, and Patrick Holden, Lead Pastor of NUVO Church as we pull these threads, and more, on this episode of the BETA SHOW. Like the BETA SHOW? Check out more episodes here. Answering Your Questions: THE BETA SHOW We need your help. Text your questions to 4THECHURCH (484/324-8724) and we'll answer them here on THE BETA SHOW. Seriously. Grab the phone. Text 484/324-8724 and tell us your questions. Where you're stuck. What questions you're asking of leadership. What questions leadership is asking of you... and let TCD help your church take some practical next steps, and give you some advice on how to BETA the situation at your church. Complete Show Notes and Online Video Available at THECHURCH.DIGITAL. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thechurchdigital/message

We've all heard that trees can save the planet, but with new agricultural policies changing the way farmers are paid for non-food benefits, how do we put a value on this? Defra are currently trialling sustainability metrics as a possible way of underpinning the new payment schemes that will replace BPS and the current agri-environment schemes. This week on Over The Farm Gate, we speak to Robert Craig, who helped design the metrics, Patrick Holden, a farmer and Founding Director of the Sustainable Food Trust, and James Adamson, Head of Forestry Investment at Savills. Links Learn more about the Sustainable Food Trust: https://sustainablefoodtrust.org/Find out more about James Adamson: https://www.savills.co.uk/people/savills-perth/james-adamson.aspx See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Patrick Holden is my guest on this episode of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Patrick is the Founding Director and Chief Executive of the Sustainable Food Trust. After studying biodynamic agriculture at Emerson College, he established a mixed community farm in Wales in 1973, producing at various times: wheat for flour production sold locally, carrots, and milk from an 85 cow Ayrshire dairy herd, now made into a single farm cheddar style cheese. He was the founding chairman of British Organic Farmers in 1982, before joining the Soil Association, where he worked for nearly 20 years and during which time the organisation led the development of organic standards and the market for organic foods. His advocacy for a major global transition to more sustainable food systems now entails international travel and regular broadcasts and talks at public events. He is Patron of the UK Biodynamic Association and was awarded the CBE for services to organic farming in 2005. Patrick is passionate about the application of Nature's principles of Harmony to food and farming, which is explored in the SFT's latest initiative, The Harmony Project. https://sustainablefoodtrust.org/ https://www.theharmonyproject.org.uk/ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Harmony-New-Way-Looking-World/dp/0007348037

Patrick Holden is a dairy farmer at Bwlchwernen Fawr in Wales, UK and campaigns for more sustainable food systems.  He speaks here during the Burren Winterage Weekend (Oct 2020). 

In this episode, Garrison is joined by Dr. Patrick Holden of the University of Plymouth to discuss Ireland's perspectives on the world today. Surveying Irish history and applying its experiences with its border with Northern Ireland, the two delve into the topics of Brexit and potential Irish reunification, while considering the impact of COVID on the devolved U.K. governments. They also touch on the topic of U.S-Irish relations, and the potential differences between President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden towards the Irish Border and Brexit. Dr. Patrick Holden is an Associate Professor (Reader) of the School of Law, Criminology and Government (Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business) at the University of Plymouth, U.K. He conducts research and teaching in relation to International Political Economy, the European Union in the World, International Development Policy, Global Governance and Regional Integration, as well as the Brexit process. He is the author of numerous publications and articles, including most recently: 'Irreconcilable tensions? The EU's development policy in an era of global illiberalism' in the Journal of Contemporary European Research. Garrison Moratto is the host of The New Diplomatist Podcast; he graduated Summa Cum Laude with a B.Sc. in Government: Public Administration from Liberty University, where he is studying for a M.Sc. in International Affairs. All guest opinions are their own and not that of The New Diplomatist podcast formally. Please subscribe and leave a review for feedback; join the podcast on Patreon for bonus perks. Thank you for listening.

Episode 97 was incredible! We did a deep dive into Creative Online Services with lead creative Craig Dockery at Crossroads Church. Incredible conversation, but man, Crossroads has a ton of resources and staffing to make their incredibly creative worship services happen. Most churches today don't have large creative teams or financial resources to do creative services. So while there are applicable lessons in from Crossroads there may not have been much practical. So, let's start to have some practical conversations on Church Online Services. We're bringing in Patrick Hudson, Lead Pastor at Nuvo Church. Nuvo's got one of the most creative worship services I've ever seen… and he's still in Church Plant mode (still operating digitally, not yet launched physically). There's an incredible opportunity we have today. Mid-COVID, or even Post-COVID, we've got an opportunity to look with fresh eyes on our corporate worship services. Don't recreate. Reimagine. COMPLETE SHOW NOTES AVAILABLE AT THECHURCH.DIGITAL. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thechurchdigital/message

There’s no arguing that more consumers are choosing to vary their diets with plant-based foods and drink, but what does this mean for the future of meat? Is a blanket ‘no meat’ future the best for sustainability? Or does that blanket approach show a lack of understanding for agriculture? On this Table Talk Podcast, recorded back in March 2020 as COVID-19 lockdowns were just taking shape in the UK, our panel argues that perhaps we should change the conversation around meat and future diets. Joining us are Patrick Holden, Founder & Chief Executive, Sustainable Food Trust, Shefali Sharma, Director, IATP Europe, Ursula Arens, Author, One Blue Dot and Jimmy Woodrow from the Pasture Fed Livestock Association. Find out how they see the future of meat taking shape, in an increasingly plant-based world. About our panel Patrick Holden, Founder & Chief Executive, Sustainable Food Trust Patrick Holden is founder and chief executive of the Sustainable Food Trust (https://sustainablefoodtrust.org/) , an organisation working internationally to accelerate the transition towards more sustainable food systems. Between 1995 and 2010 he was director of the Soil Association, during which time he pioneered the development of UK and international organic standards, policy incentives for organic production and the organic market. His policy advocacy is underpinned by his practical experience in agriculture on his 100 hectare holding, now the longest established organic dairy farm in Wales, where he produces a raw milk cheddar style cheese from his 80 native Ayrshire cows. Patrick is a frequent broadcaster and speaker, was awarded the CBE for services to organic farming in 2005 and an Ashoka Fellowship in 2016. Shefali Sharma, Director, IATP Europe Shefali Sharma is the director of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP (https://www.iatp.org/) ) European office. From the global production of feed grains to meat processing and retail, her current work and publications focus on the economic, social and environmental impacts of the global meat and dairy industries. She continues to examine how international trade rules and global governance on food security and climate intersect with the sector. Shefali established IATP’s Geneva office in 2000 and led its Trade Information Project for several years. She has worked with and consulted for several other civil society organisations, such as the Malaysia-based Third World Network, as the South Asia coordinator of the Bank Information Center, based in Delhi, and ActionAid International. She has a MPhil from the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) in Sussex and a Bachelor of Arts in anthropology from the College of William and Mary. Ursula Arens, Author, One Blue Dot Ursula Arens is currently a freelance nutrition consultant writer. She is a monthly columnist with Network Health Digest magazine (www.nhdmag.com), which is read by 6000+ dietitians in the UK. She has a degree in Dietetics and has spent most of her career working in the food industry: with a retailer, with a pharmaceutical company and at the British Nutrition Foundation (BNF). She is a member of the Nutrition Society, the British Dietetic Association, and the Guild of Health Writers. She is very interested in the environmentally sustainable diet: what it is, and what it is not. She is part of the expert group behind the report, One Blue Dot (https://www.bda.uk.com/resource/one-blue-dot.html) , produced by the British Dietetic Association. Jimmy Woodrow, Pasture Fed Livestock Association Jimmy is primarily responsible for growing the market for Pasture for Life (https://www.pastureforlife.org/) products through building public awareness of the PFLA’s activities and developing pasture-fed supply chains. In addition, he is leading on the PFLA’s upcoming ten-year strategy. Jimmy started his career in corporate finance and has recently spent seven years in a range of senior roles within the food industry, including at Neal’s Yard Dairy and GAIL’s Bakery. He is now freelancing and focused on the financing and development of agroecological supply chains.

Prime Minister Carolyn Steel joins Sheila Dillon for this special edition of The Food Programme from the year 2030. Sheila discusses the prime minister’s rise to power after Britain saw food shortages and riots in the 2020s and what it is like to now live in Sitopia - a land with food at the centre of everyone’s lives. After meeting the prime minister in the Rose Garden, which is now a bounteous vegetable garden, Ms Steel and Sheila take a walk around London to see the radical changes to the country. She meets Chris Young from the Real Bread Campaign to hear about how the banning of industrial bread has created thousands of jobs in bakeries. Sheila holograms with Stephen Ritz, founder of The Green Bronx Machine, to hear how his pioneering work inspired the prime minister to turn school playing fields into gardens and classrooms into kitchens. And they speak with ‘agriwilding’ farmer Rebecca Hosking to see how nature and farming now coexist. Back in the Rose Garden Sheila interviews the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Patrick Holden - who in 2020 was the chief executive of The Sustainable Food Trust - to question him on how Britain can afford to live in Sitopia without a substantial raise in taxes. Prime Minister Steel explains how the Good Food Revolution all began after her book ‘Sitopia: How Food Can Save the World’ was published in 2020. Presenter: Sheila Dillon Producer: Emma Weatherill

In this episode of The Church Planting Podcast, Greg Nettle talks to Patrick Holden, Ray Hudson, and Wes Dillon, three church leaders embracing digital expressions of church for the advancement of God's kingdom. 

Supporting sustainable food systems that nourish people and the planet is crucial for driving positive change, so who better to kick off our Hungry Minds podcast than self-professed ‘back-to-the-lander’, Sustainable Food Trust founder, and Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Award winner Patrick Holden?Having led the charge for adopting a more holistic approach to food production since starting a community farm in Wales during the 70s, Patrick is now a highly regarded international activist championing carbon-negative farming practices and organic, artisan food movements.Here, in an inspiring chat with our series host, Tom Parker Bowles, Patrick celebrates the collective power of conscious consumerism, and reveals why farming in harmony with nature is key to tackling climate crisis. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

British farmer and global activist, Patrick Holden CBE, joins Liz to discuss the importance of sustainable farming. He discusses the need to make sustainable food choices to benefit the planet and why we need to buy locally.Please note: Image taken before social distancing rules came into place. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this week's podcast, – one million people have now signed an NFU petition calling on the government to ensure all imported food meets UK standards.Farm leader Minette Batters explains how they NFU is determined that UK farmers will not be undermined by substandard food imports.Re-thinking arable rotations – we examine why more growers are ditching traditional break crops in favour of a two-year sown legume fallow.We speak to Suffolk farmer Tom Jewers, seed specialist Ian Gould of Oakbank, Strutt & Parker farm consultant George Badger and Natural England agronomist David Whiting.We have our usual market round-up – including a special look at farmland with rural specialist Andrew Shirley of land agents Knight Frank.We preview what promises to be one of the country's biggest farm machinery dispersal sales – with tractors and implements from across 30,000 acres.Auctioneers James Durrant of Clarke & Simpson, Bill Pepper of Cheffins and Harvey Pile of Stags say online sales of machinery have really taken off.In livestock, MPs and peers say small abattoirs should be recognised and eligible for capital payments in any future agricultural support framework.Patrick Holden, of the Sustainable Food Trust, explains why smaller slaughterhouses have a vital role in the rural economy.East Sussex farmer Frank Langrish and Derbyshire organic producer Nick Adams give their take on the future for the local meat sector.And in a special interview, Kenyan-born pig producer Flavian Obiero, who arrived in the UK as a teenager, says it is time to call out casual racism in farming.This episode co-hosted by Farmers Weekly chief reporter Johann Tasker and Surrey farmer Hugh Broom, with Farmers Weekly senior machinery reporter Edd Mowbray.

Today, Patrick Holden speaks to the Chief Executive of Triodos Bank UK, Bevis Watts, about the ways in which Triodos supports sustainable agriculture. They discuss true cost accounting, the impact of Covid-19 on the banks farming and food producing clients, and finally the role of the public and private sectors in supporting an honest economic system.   

‘We also need to encourage governments to do more to make sustainable farming the more profitable option for farmers and the more affordable option for consumers.' – Patrick Holden 2019 For the full story get your copy of Fat and Furious on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2TBdTGD Use the discount code: 'FFPodcast' at checkout for £5 off. In this episode, your host Steve Bennett and Sustainable food activist, Patrick Holden discuss how the UK needs to move to a more sustainable and organic way of farming. Twitter – @SusFoodTrust / @SoilAssociation Website - https://sustainablefoodtrust.org/ Patrick Holden is the founding director of the Sustainable Food Trust, working internationally to accelerate the transition towards more sustainable food systems. After studying biodynamic agriculture at Emerson College, he established a mixed community farm in Wales in 1973, producing at various times: wheat for flour production sold locally, carrots and milk from an 85 cow Ayrshire dairy herd,

Today on “Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg,” Dani interviews Patrick Holden of the Sustainable Food Trust. They discuss recent trends in the sustainable food and agriculture sectors.  While you’re listening, subscribe, rate, and review the show; it would mean the world to us to have your feedback. You can listen to “Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg” wherever you consume your podcasts.

Join me as I speak to Dairy farmer, cheesemaker and activist Patrick Holden.  We discuss the Covid-19 crisis in the context of his business and how the food systems we have now need to be future proofed with a greater focus on and support for sustainable practices.

Hannah MacInnes joins Patrick Holden, the founder and chief executive of the Sustainable Food Trust, on The Klosters Forum Feed & Flourish Podcast series, to discuss the topic of biodiversity and ways in which we can transform our food systems in order to positively preserve our planet. The Sustainable Food Trust is an organisation founded in 2012, which is working internationally to accelerate the transition to more sustainable food systems.

In the second episode of the Sustainable Food Trust podcast, Patrick Holden speaks to ffinlo Costain and Roland Bonney about how to develop more transparent, welfare-friendly and sustainable livestock farming systems. ffinlo has worked on farming, land use, food, and sustainability policy for over fifteen years. He is now director of Farmwel, an organisation working to generate momentum towards sustainable and accountable mainstream agriculture and aquaculture, focussing on climate and food security. ffinlo also produces the Farm Gate podcast. Roland Bonney is Co-Founder of FAI Farms and Benchmark Holdings, a company whose mission is to enable food producers to improve their sustainability and profitability, working across 70 countries. Roland is an experienced agriculturalist who, prior to co-founding the Benchmark group, established his own farming business and then a food chain research and development consultancy for global food retailers, food service and food production companies.

The hardest thing in Church Online is meeting people. I recently had an online pastor tell me that he had over 500,000 people attend Easter services online and thru television, but only collected 11 connect cards over the entire weekend. Meeting people through our Online Services can be a difficult thing to do. I've been learning something with this new Stadia relationship... Rather than going big to connect with individuals, sometimes it's better to start with the individuals... but how do you meet individuals, online? Enter Patrick. He's in the process of planting a physical church in Columbus, OH, but he's not letting this COVID-19 season slow him down. Even though Patrick is living in Michigan, a completely different state than where he's preaching, he's working out a process where he meeting and mobilizing people in Columbus. This system is completely free, by the way. Completely relational. Completely inspirational. Church plant, small church, big church... there's something in this podcast for you. COMPLETE SHOW NOTE AVAILABLE AT THECHURCH.DIGITAL --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thechurchdigital/message

Patrick Holden was brought up in London. He visited a dairy farm near Epping aged five and decided he wanted to milk cows.He studied biodynamic agriculture at Emerson College in 1972 and started a community farm in West Wales in 1973.The 93 hectares mixed organic farm is now the longest established organic dairy farm in Wales, with a herd of 65 Ayrshire cows - the milk from which is being made into an unpasteurised cheese by his son Sam.He has worked for the Soil Association since 1988 and as Director since 1995. During that period income has risen from £200,000 to £10 million and sales of organic food from £50 million to £2 billion.—Recorded live at the global event in Cardigan, west Wales in 2009.Watch Patrick's full talk here: www.thedolectures.com/talks/patrick-holden-why-local-is-the-answer

'Food security' is suddenly on the agenda - but what is it? Was it ever about calories & cheap food for the masses? And if it was, isn't it time that we redefined food security for the modern world - recognising the essential role that land use, food system resilience, and nutrition play in ensuring that all citizens can eat, and eat well. This programme features Vicki Hird from Sustain, Professor Tim Benton from Chatham House, and Patrick Holden from the Sustainable Food Trust. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/farmgate/message

“Today if you go to a supermarket and buy normal salad vegetables, I am talking about lettuces, tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, all the salad crops, none of them are grown in the soil anymore! They are all grown hydroponically (hydroponics is the science of growing plants without using soil) in this rockwool, or equivalent.” Is mass production of food and modern-day farming methods starving us of good nutrition? Your host of Fat & Furious, Steve Bennett and founder of The Sustainable Food Trust, Patrick Holden shed light on the damaging consequence of poor nutrition. After studying bio-dynamic agriculture at Emerson College, Patrick established a mixed community farm in Wales in 1973, which today is the longest-running organic farm in the country. Patrick was the founding chairman of British Organic Farmers in 1982, before joining the Soil Association, where he worked for nearly 20 years as a director and during which time the organisation led the development of organic standards

In the series' opening episode, Gilly Smith looks at the dairy industry with ethical farmers, Becky and Patrick Holden, to understand the importance of organic dairy farming to humans, animals and the planet. Their farm is the longest certified organic dairy farm in the UK and Patrick is CEO of the Sustainable Food Trust. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Interview:  A packed conversation with Patrick Holden, Founding Director of The Sustainable Food Trust. We discuss the economics of sustainable farming, the role of government and changing attitudes within the major food retailers. Plus we also touch on Brexit, hippies and vegans. Something for everyone.

Dan Saladino, Sheila Dillon and a range of experts ranging from climate scientists to beef producers answer your questions on meat eating and the future of farming and our diets. Featuring questions on methane, scientific trials of more carbon friendly beef, the impact of rice in climate change, the nutritional benefits of grass-fed meats and the value of traditional diets. Among the contributors are Dr Michelle Cains, a Climate scientist at the Oxford Martin School, Minette Batters, President of the National Farmers Union, Professor of Epidemiological Genetics at Kings College London, Patrick Holden, The Sustainable Food Trust, Tara Garnett of the Food Climate Research Network and environmental campaigner George Monbiot.

Our attitudes to food consumption and food production are at odds with the impact that they’re having on the environment. How can we make sure that we’re able to feed an ever-growing population in a world with a changing climate, shifting seasons and huge inequality? In this episode we take a look at the issues we face, both as a planet and as a society and meet the change-makers in our community of Bristol and South West UK, who are pushing the boundaries and helping to create a more positive future. This episode is hosted by former TEDxBristol speaker and environmental campaigner Natalie Fee. Natalie goes on a journey of discovery to learn about the extent of the problems we face and about what needs to be done to ensure that our future relationship with food is a sustainable one. Natalie meets Patrick Holden, founder and chief executive of the Bristol-based Sustainable Food Trust, to find out more about the impact that farming practices are having on the planet. We find out how one Bristol startup is developing the farms of the future out of an old industrial unit. Lettus Grow are developing indoor farms using aeroponic technology, we get taken on a tour of their hi-tech facility by co-founder Charlie Guy. Finally, Steph Wetherell of the Bristol Food Producers network joins Natalie to talk about the things that we can do on a grass roots level to ensure that we’re all doing our bit towards a more sustainable future. We also visit one of Bristol’s most sustainable, and most delicious restaurants, Poco Tapas in Stokes Croft and meet co-founders Jennifer Best and Ben Pryor who tell us why locally-sourced ingredients are so important to them. This episode was made possible thanks to TrueStart Coffee - find out more at truestartcoffee.com A big thank you to Jamie Pike for introducing us to some great contributors.

Where does Brexit leave the UK countryside? Tom Heap hosts a studio debate. On the panel: Shaun Spiers from the environmental think-tank, the Green Alliance; Heather Hancock, director of rural-based consultancy 'Rural Solutions', chair of the Food Standards Agency, and former chief executive of the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority and Patrick Holden, founding director of the Sustainable Food Trust,. Producer: Emma Campbell

Download the study guide: https://kensingtonchurch.page.link/RoadHomeStudyGuide We all love it when we experience good service. In our culture, we feel we have made it when we have people serving us more than we serve others. The Pharisees were similar. They loved the power they had over people. But then Jesus showed up having no problem rebuking the Pharisees when they powered up and leveraged their position over everyone. This weekend we will learn the most powerful thing a leader can do is serve and the most powerful direction is down. It is the way Jesus lived. Join Kensington church here: http://kensingtonchurch.org Follow us on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/kensingtonchurch Catch us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.kensingtoncc

'TK's Juicy Pod', by Taylor King is all about the Juicy poll questions she asks on her Instagram stories. Butler University student, Patrick Holden, and graduate, Brent Kaiserman, join Taylor to answer juicy dating related poll questions. We learn all about what boys are thinking! We talk about the results, as the votes come in, and boy are they are juicy! To vote in the polls, follow @tayl0r_king on instagram. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tksjuicypod/support

In this episode, we talk to Patrick Holden about the hopes and fears of British farming after Brexit. Patrick is a pioneer of the modern sustainable food movement. He is the Founding Director and current Chief Executive of the Sustainable Food Trust, an organization dedicated to accelerating the transition to more sustainable food and farming systems. Previously, he has been the founding chairman of British Organic Farmers in 1982, and the former Director of the Soil Association, where he played a key role in the development of organic standards and the market for organic foods for nearly 20 years. Patrick is also a farmer, and runs the longest established organic dairy farm in Wales, and wrote the world’s first draft of the organic dairy standards in the 80s. In this episode, Patrick and I discuss: The mood in British agriculture towards Brexit The UK government’s Brexit plan for agriculture Brexit: an opportunity for a decisive shift towards sustainable agriculture? Brexit’s impact on subsidies, trade deals, EU migrant farmworkers, animal welfare and abattoirs What Brexit can teach the EU about agriculture Links: Sustainable Food Trust Website DEFRA Health and Harmony consultation paper Sustainable Food Trust Response to DEFRA paper The Guardian: ‘UK has nearly 800 livestock mega farms, investigation reveals’ You may also like: FFS 028 - Money Well Spent? Farm Subsidies in the EU FFS 024 – The Soilution: saving our soil, saving ourselves FFS 011 – Transforming Agriculture to Feed the Future

Patrick Holden and Stephen Pepper join Adam Stringham to discuss the young defense and the future for the Capitals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the last of the summer series of panel discussions at Borough Talks, Tim Lang, professor of food policy at City University asks an expert panel about the true cost of the food we eat? The panel includes Robin Gill, chef-proprietor of The Dairy, The Manor, Counter Culture and Paradise Garage; Patrick Holden, founder of the Sustainable Food Trust; Donald Hyslop, head of regeneration and community partnerships at Tate Modern and chair of the Trustees of Borough Market; Carolyn Steel, author of Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives; and Richard Swannell, development director of WRAP. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Our industrialised, extractive food system is at breaking point. Instead of waiting for the crisis, technologies such as regenerative agriculture and synthetic biology give us the chance to feed the 9 billion whilst rebuilding natural capital. - Nikki Silvestri, CEO/Founder of Soil and Shadow - Istvan Kenyeres, President, The Biopolus Institute - Patrick Holden, Chief Executive, Sustainable Food Trust

After last month’s words from farmers around the world, we are now back on British soil. We have stories from Perthshire to Devon but we start on the west coast, with Patrick Holden from the Sustainable Food Trust. Patrick tells us about how he makes the most of the by-products from his dairy farm, and what a positive effect transparent pricing could have on farmers. We hear about a great little trick for soil testing on the cheap, the TBI – And then we are in Shropshire to find out about some of the ups and downs of Woofing. Finally, we get a collection of dispatches from the first Scottish Farmhack, an experience that had many people excited to share ideas and build tools together.

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Patrick Holden The Global Food Movement Join TNS Host Michael Lerner in a conversation with Patrick Holden—British biodynamic dairy farmer and advisor to the Prince of Wales. Patrick grew up in London but was deeply influenced by a year he spent in California at the beginning of the seventies. He returned to the UK to study biodynamic agriculture and started a community dairy farm in West Wales in 1973. It is now the longest established organic dairy farm in Wales, with a herd of 75 Ayrshire cows – the milk from which is made into raw milk cheese by his son, Sam. Patrick Holden Patrick is the founding director of the Sustainable Food Trust. Between 1995 and 2010, he was the director of the Soil Association and became a much sought-after speaker and campaigner for organic food and farming. He spearheaded a number of prominent food campaigns around BSE, pesticide residues and GM food. More recently, he was a member of the UK Government’s working group on the Foresight Report into Future of Food and Farming and is advisor to the Prince of Wales International Sustainability Unit. Find out more about The New School at tns.commonweal.org.