Raising Capital

February 11, 2021

Breadtopia Builds off Pandemic Business Boom

Business Models, Operations, Podcast, Raising Capital

In podcast #83, recorded at Edible-Alpha® Live!, Tera interviews Galen Saturley of Breadtopia, a virtual baking-education hub and seller of grains, flours and baking equipment based in Fairfield, Iowa.

February 4, 2021

5 Success Lessons from a Famous Founder

Business Models, Operations, Raising Capital, Sales and Marketing

The Edible-Alpha® podcast aims to educate and inspire listeners by showing “what it really takes to make money in food,” as Tera says in the intro to each episode.

January 28, 2021

Paul Willis Talks Scaling up Humanely Raised Pork

Business Models, Operations, Podcast, Raising Capital, Sales and Marketing

For Tera’s final Edible-Alpha® Live! famous founder interview, she spoke with Paul Willis, director and founding hog farmer of Niman Ranch.

January 21, 2021

Raising Money for Your Farm Through Value-Added Producer Grants

Raising Capital

Tera Johnson interviews renowned VAPG writer and consultant, Jim Gage of JDG Consulting. The webinar gives farm entrepreneurs a better understanding of how a VAPG could help their businesses and if they should be writing one right now.

January 21, 2021

Building Investment Cases for Regenerative Farming

Business Models, Financial Management, Raising Capital

Farming is hard work, but financing a new organic or regenerative endeavor is its own beast.

January 15, 2021

Impact Investing Fosters Organic Farmland Security

Podcast, Raising Capital

Tera’s second Edible-Alpha® Live! famous founder interview featured David Miller, co-founder and CEO of Iroquois Valley Farmland REIT.

January 1, 2021

Gary Zimmer Shares How Healthy Soil Yields Success

Business Models, Operations, Podcast, Raising Capital

Gary Zimmer is the founder of Madison, Wisconsin-based Midwestern BioAg and is considered the father of “biological farming”—essentially the first iteration of regenerative agriculture—which focuses on balancing soil biology, chemistry and structure to produce greater, higher-quality yields.

October 30, 2020

Transparency and Trust Fuel The Honest Bison’s Rapid Online Growth

Business Models, Podcast, Raising Capital, Sales and Marketing

Sean Lenihan is the founder of The Honest Bison, a direct-to-consumer purveyor of 100% grass-fed bison and other meats. Committed to total transparency, The Honest Bison gives consumers easy access to premium, nutritious, ethically and sustainably raised nutritious animal proteins as an alternative to conventionally raised, grain-fed red meats.

October 2, 2020

For Atlantic Sea Farms, Mission Drives Market

Business Models, Operations, Podcast, Raising Capital, Sales and Marketing

Briana Warner is CEO of Atlantic Sea Farms, the nation’s first commercial seaweed farm, based in Saco, Maine. Since Briana took the reins in 2018, the company has developed a dynamic mission-based brand around promoting kelp consumption, diversifying the coastal economy and mitigating climate change.

August 6, 2020

Scout Canning Makes Shelf-Stable Seafood Sustainable

Business Models, Operations, Podcast, Raising Capital, Sales and Marketing

In Edible-Alpha® podcast #71, Tera talks to Adam Bent, co-founder and CEO of Scout Canning, a Toronto, Ontario-based craft cannery launched in December 2018.