PANEL: Growing your farming destiny (recorded at Leeston event)
- S4E2
- 54:52
- June 9th 2023
When your world feels like farming & growing food for the future is just getting a bit too hard, listen to our panel's discussion on what excites them about New Zealand's future.
Sarah Perriam-Lampp recently hosted six guests at the Lakeside Memorial Hall at Leeston, Canterbury for a dinner event sponsored by ESAI to discuss how we can grow our farming destiny in the context of what we can control and the opportunities before us.
Panel includes:
Hamish Gow - Global Value Chains, Lincoln University
Rhys Roberts - CEO, Align Farms
Gabi & Doug Micheal - Owners, Gladfield Malt
Mandy Bell - Chair, Deer Industry NZ & NZFAP+ Farmer
Tim Jones - B-Corp certified consultant, The Grow Good Guy
LINKS:
Value Chain Innovation Tour (watch this space, another tour coming in 2023/24) with Hamish Gow
More about Align Farms (Rhys Roberts)
More about Gladfield Malt (Doug & Gabi Michael)
More about WAI Wānaka & Criffel Station (Mandy Bell)
More about getting B Corp certified with The Grow Good Guy (Tim Jones)
More about ESAI - Ellesmere Sustainable Agriculture Inc who hosted the panel at the Lakeside Memorial Hall at Leeston.
CONTACT THE SHOW:
Email: [email protected]
Website: sarahscountry.com
Sarah's Country
Growing food and fibre is an exciting but complex world to be in.
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Sarah Perriam-Lampp is an award-winning rural journalist with a decade of experience across TV, radio, podcast, and print where her pulse of New Zealand's farming sector makes Sarah's Country a valuable mainstay in your podcast library.
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About Sarah
As a leading voice in New Zealand agriculture, Sarah Perriam has worked for over a decade behind & in front of the camera in rural media, recognised for her extraordinary commitment to progressing the conversation of farming food and fashion-forward with an open heart & open mind.
Sarah has led an impressive career well-known from her nation-wide role as a radio host and a rural commentator on the AM Show.
It was through this pivotal part in her career she was thrust into a position of representing the role females play in the growth of agribusiness & global trade whilst balancing an important emotive and educated discussion with our consumers around farming.
Sarah is both a host of the popular show 'Sarah's Country' and businesswomen with her production agency, Perriam Media with a team of 7 and a video & radio studio in Canterbury New Zealand.
Sarah’s Country is produced in a strategic alliance with the country’s largest rural newspaper, Farmers Weekly, broadcast LIVE 7 pm three nights a week and on-demand on the podcast to an audience of 70,000. She discussing the matters that matter most to passionate producers of food & fibre with open hearts & open minds.