After a little bit of a break, we are back with new episodes of the You Can't Eat Money podcast.
We have an incredible lineup of guests this season and we're starting off with the general manager of a company that has been on my dream guest list since I started the podcast about a year ago - Patagonia Provisions. Paul Lightfoot is about a year into his gig as the general manager of the food arm of Patagonia and joins us to talk about a range of issues when it comes to ecologically responsible eating and food production.
A good chunk of the conversation focuses on the the launch at the end of June of Patagonia Provision's latest beer - Kernza Lager. Kernza Lager is being launched with 'A Good Grain Collective', a coalition of 11 of America's best craft beer breweries including heavy hitters Sierra Nevada, Allagash and Russian River, as well as a personal favorite of mine from my time in Los Angeles - Topa Topa. Each is creating their own unique expression using Kernza, a perennial grain that comes with a raft of climate crisis fighting benefits. But this episode has something for everyone.
We talk about regenerative agriculture and specifically the Regenerative Organic Certified Kernza that Patagonia Provisions is helping create a market for. We also talk about how the business supports farmers and balancing a local connection to our food with a globalized food system.
If you believe as Patagonia Provisions does that Eating is Activism, this episode is for you. As I mentioned in the episode, the Patagonia parent brand has a great campaign going on now to end bottom trawling, which is destroying our ocean ecosystems and has severe impacts on our ocean food chain. You can find that petition in the links below.
And if you enjoy the episode, please don't forget to give us a rating in your favorite podcast app, it really helps more people find the podcast and become more ecologically responsible eaters.
Links
Kernza Lager/A Good Grain Collective
Eating is Activism film -
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Climate Crisis Fighting Beer and More with Paul Lightfoot, Patagonia Provisions