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Join Patrick Holden, CBE, Founding Director of the Sustainable Food Trust in conversation with Finn Ross, Co-Chair of Future Farmers New Zealand.
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Patrick Holden is the founder and CEO of the Sustainable Food Trust, whose mission is to work internationally to accelerate the transition towards more sustainable food and farming systems.
Between 1995 and 2010, he was Director of the Soil Association, the UK organic advocacy and certification organisation, where he played a leading role in developing the organic standards and market.
He currently leads a task force on measuring land use sustainability for the Sustainable Markets Initiative (SMI), established by the then Prince of Wales in 2020.
Patrick trained in Biodynamic farming at Emerson College and has farmed for over 50 years on a 300-acre mixed organic dairy holding, now the longest established organic dairy farm in Wales, producing a raw milk cheddar from the milk of 85 Ayrshire cows.
He received a CBE for services to organic farming in 2005 and is Patron of the UK Bio-dynamic Agriculture Association. He became an Ashoka fellow in 2016 and was awarded an honorary doctorate for his international work in sustainable agriculture by the University of Wales Trinity St David in 2022.
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Join Patrick Holden, CBE, Founding Director of the Sustainable Food Trust in conversation with Finn Ross, Co-Chair of Future Farmers New Zealand.
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Patrick Holden
Sustainable Food Trust
Patrick Holden is the founder and CEO of the Sustainable Food Trust, whose mission is to work internationally to accelerate the transition towards more sustainable food and farming systems.
Between 1995 and 2010, he was Director of the Soil Association, the UK organic advocacy and certification organisation, where he played a leading role in developing the organic standards and market.
He currently leads a task force on measuring land use sustainability for the Sustainable Markets Initiative (SMI), established by the then Prince of Wales in 2020.
Patrick trained in Biodynamic farming at Emerson College and has farmed for over 50 years on a 300-acre mixed organic dairy holding, now the longest established organic dairy farm in Wales, producing a raw milk cheddar from the milk of 85 Ayrshire cows.
He received a CBE for services to organic farming in 2005 and is Patron of the UK Bio-dynamic Agriculture Association. He became an Ashoka fellow in 2016 and was awarded an honorary doctorate for his international work in sustainable agriculture by the University of Wales Trinity St David in 2022.
Finn Ross
Climate Action Company and The Blue Carbon Lab
I am a young kiwi scientist, climate activist and adventurer.
I am a Blue Carbon Lab PhD candidate researching seaweed as a climate change solution. I am currently the founder of Climate Action Company and host of the Both Sides Now political podcast.
Historically I have had roles as the co-founder of not-for-profit charity Let Them Fish, founder of The Seaweed Solution, Bomb Bucha CEO and contributor to the genesis of Live Ocean. I am co-chair of Future Farmers New Zealand and board member for Otago Department of Conservation, WSV2 Biochar and the Kelp Forest Foundation scientific board.
I live on Lake Hawea Station; my family farm which is pioneering on farm climate action and regenerative agriculture and is the first certified Bcorp sheep farm in the world. I am deeply passionate about the ocean as a climate change solution, but above all live for adventures in the most remote corners of the South Pacific.
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