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A podcast exploring how collective wisdom and adaptive leadership can help us navigate the profound transformations reshaping our food and agriculture systems.
Unknown Host hosts The Future Herd.
Summary: Chef-farmer Joel Gray of Down Home Restaurant discusses how integrating small-scale farming, live-fire cooking, and intimate agritourism fosters rural economic development and community resilience. In conversati
Host Jesse Hirsh sits down with Alissa Overend, Charles Levkoe, and Elaine Power to dismantle the illusion of cheap food, corporate grocery monopolies, and the systemic capture of agricultural policy. Together, they argu
Feed the People! live Future Herd salon - Date: Tuesday, August 25, 2026 - Time: 2:00 p.m. EDT - Duration: 90 minutes - Book: [*Feed the People!: Why Industrial Food Is Good and How to Make It Even Better*](https://www.h
Summary: Urban-rural divides dissolve when young people experience the agricultural food system firsthand. In this episode, high school educator Dan Kunanec joins host Jesse Hirsh to discuss how Don Mills Collegiate's ca
John Rafferty, CEO of Ontario Genomics, makes the case that Canada's combination of vast acreage, abundant water, and clean energy positions it to become not just an agricultural superpower but a biomanufacturing one — i
Sarah Elton — journalist-turned-academic and author of Locavore — argues that genuine food security requires expanding our definition of 'all' to include not just every human being but every organism and ecosystem that s
Summary: This episode brings together Canada's sharpest minds at the intersection of AI and agriculture to make a concrete case: the future of Canadian farm competitiveness will be decided not by whether producers adopt
Summary: Elaine Power, a food scholar at Queen's University, argues that the word "AgriFood" itself encodes a fundamental contradiction: the agri side serves corporate capital while the food side is rooted in care, commu
Title: Throwing Out the Business Textbook to Save the Family Farm Summary: RJ Taylor, second-generation fish farmer and co-owner of a multi-site Ontario aquaculture operation, makes the case that the conventional busines
The Politics of Standing Up for Farmers Why governments need to actually listen before they regulate Canadian agriculture has enormous potential. The land, producers, knowledge, innovation, and markets are there. But too
Summary: Donald Killorn, Executive Director of the PEI Federation of Agriculture, makes the case that ecological thinking — not agronomic expertise — is exactly what Canada's food system needs from its leaders right now.
Title: Agroecology Is the How-To of Food Sovereignty Summary: Charles Levkoe, food systems researcher at Lakehead University, makes the case that agroecology is not simply a set of farming techniques but the practical ex
Title: Leaving Every Organisation Better Than You Found It Summary: Kaitlyn Kitzan, Saskatchewan farmer, entrepreneur, and sectoral leader, argues that lasting leadership means improving every organisation you touch and
Title: The Grocery Store Is a Media Environment: What Sociology Reveals About Food, Power, and Choice Summary: Alissa Overend of MacEwan University argues that the food choices Canadians make every day are shaped by forc
Measuring What Matters: Transforming Canada’s Agri-Food System What does a resilient agri-food system actually look like — and how would we know if we were building one? In this Future Herd panel episode, guest host Jen
Where Food Becomes Community Rethinking Rural Food Security with Rob Rainer In this episode of The Future Herd, Jesse Hirsh speaks with Rob Rainer about food insecurity from a rural perspective. Rob brings a rare combina
Summary: Mohamad Yaghi from Farm Credit Canada explores how technology can democratize and transform the agricultural sector. He discusses the unique challenges farmers face and how innovative solutions can help address
Jennifer MacTavish's career path in agriculture demonstrates the power of curiosity and saying 'yes' to opportunities. Starting with an international development degree and transitioning through animal science, she disco
What happens when an emergency response becomes a permanent feature of the system? In this conversation, Neil Hetherington, CEO of Daily Bread Food Bank, offers a clear-eyed view from inside one of Canada’s most critical
The Rise of the Computational Breeder: Rethinking How We Grow Food What happens when crop science becomes computational In this episode, Jesse Hirsh sits down with Mohsen Yoosefzadeh Najafabadi, Assistant Professor at th
John Barlow
Member of Parliament for Foothills · Consult Red
1 appearance on this show
Tyler McCann
Managing Director · Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute
1 appearance on this show
Donald Killorn
PEI Federation of Agriculture
1 appearance on this show
Charles Levkoe
Lakehead University
1 appearance on this show
Alissa Overend
MacEwan University
1 appearance on this show
Camden Lawrence
First Nations Agriculture & Finance Ontario
2 appearances on this show
Lori Nikkel
Second Harvest
2 appearances on this show
Rob Rainer
The Table Community Food Centre
1 appearance on this show
Mohamad Yaghi
Farm Credit Canada
1 appearance on this show
Jenn MacTavish
Agricultural Adaptation Council
1 appearance on this show
Neil Hetherington
Daily Bread Food Bank
1 appearance on this show
Mohsen Yoosefzadeh Najafabadi
University of Guelph
1 appearance on this show
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