Groundswell is an annual two-day festival of regenerative agriculture that takes place every June on a farm in Hertfordshire. Its a gathering of change in food and farming where farmers, conservationists, ecologists, chefs, agriculture industry representatives as well as financiers and MPs gather, speak and collaborate ideas about how we can transform food and farming into a more planet friendly agro-ecological future.

https://groundswellag.com/

This year we decided to film a mini series of friends, movers and shapers of the regenerative movement who are all in one place at one time.

Co-founder and Collaborative CEO Mark Drewell conducted interviews for New Foundation Farms with a selection of chosen guests.
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Episode 08 - Alex Godfrey - Savills

Joint Head of Natural Capital, Rural Management at Savills

Alex was one of the original founders of New Foundation Farms before moving on to Savills.

Alexander Godfrey has ten years of experience in investment banking (fixed income), a BSc in Economics and an MSc in Global Energy and Climate Policy, focusing on regenerative agriculture and climate finance, from SOAS University.

Alex consulted on a silvopasture enterprise in the Bolivian Amazon, stacking enterprise and engaging with indigenous people whilst developing an effective nature-based solution to mitigate climate change.

Alex has worked as an analyst in the UK’s agricultural space with a focus on natural capital and carbon markets.

Alex Co-founded New Foundation Farms, a disruptor in the agricultural sector, establishing a large-scale regenerative agri-food enterprise in the UK. Creating a nexus between agri-food business, ESG capital and society.

Last but certainly not least, Alex works on a mixed farm in the Cotswolds with Aberdeen Angus cattle and arable rotations. He describes himself as a “systems-based thinker and a firm believer in a world that believes in people, planet and profit” – not just the third one!


Podcast - Sustainable AF - "A blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all by 2030”

Our goal is to give you the information you need about one of the world’s great attempts to make the planet a better, cleaner, fairer place- the Sustainable Development Goals. They’re intended to tackle some of our biggest system challenges from health, education, inequality and even climate change. This year the pandemic has been dramatic but it was a huge challenge that affected everyone and the world worked together to tackle it. The bigger problems we face in the 21st century are around inequality, political polarisation, climate and environmental challenges, technology that’s evolving ahead of our ability to understand and our natural human tendency to fail to look ahead.




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Contacts for Alex Godfrey

https://www.savills.co.uk/people/savills-oxford/alex-godfrey.aspx

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-godfrey-817644152/?originalSubdomain=uk

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/sustainable-af/id1556484313

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1608616

Groundswell is an annual two-day festival of regenerative agriculture that takes place every June on a farm in Hertfordshire. Its a gathering of change in food and farming where farmers, conservationists, ecologists, chefs, agriculture industry representatives as well as financiers and MPs gather, speak and collaborate ideas about how we can transform food and farming into a more planet friendly agro-ecological future.

https://groundswellag.com/

This year we decided to film a mini series of friends, movers and shapers of the regenerative movement who are all in one place at one time.

Co-founder and Collaborative CEO Mark Drewell conducted interviews for New Foundation Farms with a selection of chosen guests.
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Episode 07 - Filipe Salbany, Wild Bee Expert & Conservationist at the Blenheim Estate

Filipe's biog reads: I had my first my experience with honey bee colonies in the forests of Portugal as a 6-year-old. Hundreds of ‘cortiço’ (cork) bee hives spread out through the pine and eucalyptus forests in Paião, a small village in Portugal.

Beekeeping was the responsibility of the older generation and I was fascinated by the simple methods of handling the bees, gentle smoke, the waft of pine smoke, talking to the bees, careful movements, bare hands and often no veils once the temperament of the bees had been assessed.

My grandfather was one of the first in the region to move to Langstroth hives and I would watch in awe as the cork hives would be gently held between a person’s legs, tapped and rasped until the whole colony would leave the top of the cork hive (abandoning brood) and enter the entrance of the Langstroth hives.

These early adventures helped me manage African bees (Apis mellifera scutellata and adansonii) from the age of eight and for the next 40 years. This has expanded my knowledge of not only traditional bees but various species, non as fascinating as Apis mellifera capensis where the workers can produce a queen from unfertilised eggs.

I have worked with honey bees in Africa, Europe, North America and now the UK. Observation has been enhanced by reading and the assimilation of science as I have had to adapt to the changing environments and species of bee as well as the limitations of equipment in many of the poorer regions of Africa.

This lifelong experience has allowed me to be able to notice changes in bee temperament, development, and the problems associated with unrestricted movement of species around different regions.

Filipe is a truly deep thinker who brings a deep systems approach to his work with Britains native bees


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Contacts for Filipe Salbany

https://beeportals.co.uk/about/

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/07/no-one-knew-they-existed-wild-heirs-of-lost-british-honeybee-found-at-blenheim

Groundswell is an annual two-day festival of regenerative agriculture that takes place every June on a farm in Hertfordshire. Its a gathering of change in food and farming where farmers, conservationists, ecologists, chefs, agriculture industry representatives as well as financiers and MPs gather, speak and collaborate ideas about how we can transform food and farming into a more planet friendly agro-ecological future.

https://groundswellag.com/

This year we decided to film a mini series of friends, movers and shapers of the regenerative movement who are all in one place at one time.

Co-founder and Collaborative CEO Mark Drewell conducted interviews for New Foundation Farms with a selection of chosen guests.
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Episode 06 - Emma Chow, Regenerative Food Systems Transformer

Emma's biog reads as:
For the past decade, I dedicated myself to protecting nature. I started my career in consulting, then went on to co-develop and lead a global food systems transformation initiative. I dove deep into the world of food and regenerative systems design. I dedicated myself to this work. In 2021, I burnt out. I entered a period of pause. I embarked on a journey of self-regeneration. There, during the unraveling, I realised that to create a truly regenerative future, we need to start with ourselves. This is the message I am carrying.

She's a truly deep visionary thinker who brings a holistic and polymath approach to subject of regeneration and held morning meditation sessions at Groundswell.
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Contacts for Emma Chow

https://www.emmacchow.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmachow1/?originalSubdomain=uk