#011. Shauna Sadowski: regenerative agriculture, sustainable sourcing at Annie’s and General Mills, meal planning & nightly family dinners

Shauna Sadowski’s career as a sustainability leader in food companies has spanned from Clif Bar to Annie’s to General Mills to Simple Mills, where she is now. Shauna grew up with six siblings on a farm in Saskatchewan, Canada and has an intimate understanding of how agricultural and farming systems connect to the foods we eat, why that matters, and what a food business can do about it. She has leveraged her background in business and agriculture to be a voice for change in the food industry, including as a huge advocate of regenerative agriculture which we’ll dig into today.

Resources:

• Simple Mills  
• General Mills on Why Biodiversity is Key to Success (2019) (Food Tech Connect)
• The Kirschenmann Lecture (2019): How Big Food Can Drive Big Change: Scaling Regenerative Agriculture for Everyone (Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture)
• Patagonia Provisions
• Quinn Snacks
• “How Regenerative Agriculture and organic farming helps the earth” (Food Dive, 2019)
• “How regenerative land and livestock management practices can sequester carbon,” (GreenBiz, 2019)
• Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation
• The Land Institute:  kernza
• Project Drawdown
• Frog Hollow Farm
• River Dog Farm

Books Shauna recommends:
Positivity (Barbara Frederickson)
Between the World and Me (Ta-Nehisi Coates)
Dirt (David Montgomery)
The Hidden Half of Nature (David Montgomery)
Growing a Revolution (David Montgomery)
Pulse: the Coming Age of Systems and Machines Inspired by Living Things (Robert Frenay) 
Dinner- Melissa Clark