We’re somewhere north of Fargo, baking under a late-July sun and knee-deep in rolling hills of soy that belong to a farmer who’s been on the forefront of soil building…
By Christina Archer and Stephanie Daniels Our work these days in the Food Lab is primarily organized around the two broad outcomes of agricultural systems that regenerate soil and ecosystem…
By Hal Hamilton Joseph Racape is a retired farmer and former advisor to the French Minister for the Environment. As Joseph showed some friends and me around his village and…
By Hal Hamilton I’ve been thinking about the cultural divide between mainstream farmers and those who self-identify as regenerative or organic. As with many other issues, people get stuck…
By Elizabeth Reaves & Hal Hamilton Large-scale commodity agriculture functions the way it does for understandable reasons. But that hardly means it needs to remain stuck in the status…
The stakes are rising because systemic risks have huge financial consequences by Hal Hamilton I’ll use ocean fisheries as a quick example of the scope of sustainability strategy.…
Andre Eitner has been part of the Food Lab family for over decade, including as a participant in our Impact Lab and learning journeys. We decided to (virtually) sit down…
By: Hal Hamilton The most important book I’ve read in years is Rebecca Henderson’s Reimaging Capitalism in a World on Fire. It’s the right book for this moment during which…
By Elizabeth Reaves In the context of COVID, I am finding the tension between current reality and systems transformation to be paralyzing and I came to the concept of…
By Hal Hamilton Since I became a live-next-door grandfather, it has occurred to me that the path to personal mastery, common to both parenting and system leadership, is revealing.…
