The Farmlink Podcast The Farmlink Project

In this episode of The Farmlink Podcast, we delve into the power of community. As we'll discuss, community is not just a part of Farmlink's success story, but rather the secret sauce behind why and how this project has been able to continuously grow and improve over the past three years.  Outside of Farmlink, community is also one of the  key ingredients for getting people interested in mission-driven, impactful work in general. We'll first be joined by Farmlink's Co-Founder Aidan Reilly and Stella Delp, Farmlink's People Operations Lead and member of the founding team to talk all things Farmlink-related, and later we'll be joined by two special guests, Cooper Adams and Anya Dennison, who have both harnessed the power of community-building in two other powerful social impact organizations. 

In this episode of The Farmlink Podcast, we speak with Farmlink's Co-Founder Aidan Reilly and current Creative Director Owen Dubeck about how they've spread Farmlink's message and story from its very beginning to the present day. In only the first few months of Farmlink's existence, Aidan and Owen, along with other members of the founding team, managed to get The Farmlink Project featured in national outlets such as The New York Times, ABC World News with David Muir, and the Washington Post. As we'll discuss, this kind of continued storytelling success has been crucial in Farmlink's ability to make an impact, and is key to the creation of any social impact movement. We'll also be joined by Charles McBryde, a storyteller, recent TikTok star, and former head of branding for Farmlink, where we'll be discussing his philosophy on creating content to generate social change and the wild places his work has led him to, including, recently, an active warzone...

In this episode of The Farmlink Podcast, we sit down with four members of The Farmlink Project's core operations team- the people responsible for locating, rescuing, and distributing the food that we prevent from going to waste on farms. We'll hear about the ins-and-outs of their responsibilities, as well as how they manage to balance their incredibly impactful (and sometimes hilarious) work with their busy college lives. We'll also be speaking with Farmlink's Chief Procurement Officer, Luis Yepiz, whose wealth of knowledge gained from decades of working in the American food system will take us through the large-scale problems that we face at Farmlink. He'll also discuss his own journey to becoming part of our project, as well as his hopes for creating an equitable, community-focused nationwide food system in the United States. 

In the inaugural episode of The Farmlink Podcast, we sit down with Aidan Reilly and Ben Collier, two of the Co-Founders of the award-winning non-profit The Farmlink Project. In April of 2020, a ragtag group of college friends began cold-calling hundreds of farmers across the USA in an attempt to rescue their surplus produce and transport it to food banks buckling under the demand of the COVID-19 pandemic. Fast forward two years, and The Farmlink Project has transformed into a national operation that's rescued and donated more than 60 million pounds of food across the United States. Aidan and Ben take us through the impetus for starting this wild project, the hectic early days of the organization, and the kinds of challenges and perspectives they've encountered in running one of the world's fastest-growing non-profit startups.