Tomorrow's Bites with Andrés and Sjacco

Andrés and Sjacco

Food is a problem, and this podcast is full of solutions. Every two weeks, Andrés and Sjacco sit down with the founders, farmers, investors, chefs, and other rebels who are reshaping the way food is grown, made, financed, and shared. From farmers building resilient, regenerative food systems to founders creating sustainable, healthy food products, and from impact investing to scaling agrifood companies, these are the stories, lessons, and strategies. If you’re building in agrifood, dreaming of something better, or hungry to understand the future of food, this podcast is for you.

  1. 4 天前

    The Part Listeners Didn´t Skip: What AgTech Startups Get Wrong About Regenerative Agriculture - from our conversation with regenerative farmer Thomas Gent

    Most agtech startups want to help farmers. But many miss a fundamental truth. Technology doesn’t move at the same pace as nature, and innovation that works in theory often fails in the field. In this short episode, Thomas Gent, regenerative farmer and founder of Gentle Farming, shares what most startups overlook when trying to support sustainable agriculture. → The mismatch between tech expectations and seasonal farming→ Why soil and systems thinking can’t be rushed→ What it really takes to build trust with farmers And finally, what regenerative farming needs most from innovation partners. In 7 min, you’ll hear directly from someone who lives the complexity of farming change. Listen to the whole conversation here 👋 GET IN TOUCH WITH US 👥 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Linkedin⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠📸 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🌎⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    6 分鐘
  2. How 5 Students Turned Seaweed Goo Into a Scalable Solution For Indoor Farming - With The Winners Of WUR Student Challenges The HAB Special Edition WUR

    10月8日

    How 5 Students Turned Seaweed Goo Into a Scalable Solution For Indoor Farming - With The Winners Of WUR Student Challenges The HAB Special Edition WUR

    What if the next big climate solution didn’t come from a lab or a boardroom, but from a student space farming challenge? That’s exactly what happened to Morgan and Feodor, two students from Wageningen University who joined forces with others to rethink food for astronauts, and ended up creating a breakthrough that could change farming here on Earth. Their idea, AstroGel, is a biodegradable, seaweed-based hydrogel designed to replace peat, the world’s most widely used plant substrate, responsible for massive CO₂ emissions and soon to be banned in the EU. What started as a concept for Mars missions could now help greenhouses transition to more sustainable practices. In this special episode in collaboration with WUR, we explore: How a space challenge led to a carbon-negative farming innovationWhy peat is both essential and destructive in today’s food systemThe scrappy student journey from whiteboard sketches to industry testsWhat they learned about failure, prototypes, and pitching under pressureWhy curiosity and bold ideas might be the missing ingredient in climate solutions 🙏 LEAVE A REVIEW  If you like our podcast please leave us a review on your favourite platform – even one sentence helps! Thank you for your support; it helps the show a lot and it helps others to discover the show!  👋 GET IN TOUCH WITH US 👥 ⁠Linkedin⁠ 📸 ⁠Instagram⁠ 🌎 ⁠⁠Website⁠ 😊 The Startup: The HAB Look into WUR Student Challenges & Rethink Food Challenges

    38 分鐘
  3. What Can Space Farming Teach Us About Feeding People On Earth? - With Charlotte Pouwels from EUSPA & Bart van Meurs Division Q a Special WUR Edition

    9月24日

    What Can Space Farming Teach Us About Feeding People On Earth? - With Charlotte Pouwels from EUSPA & Bart van Meurs Division Q a Special WUR Edition

    What if the innovations designed to feed astronauts on Mars could solve food security challenges here on Earth? In this special Tomorrow’s Bites episode, we sit down with Bart van Meurs, director of Division Q, and Charlotte Pouwels, analog astronaut and space mission leader, who both served as jury members for Wageningen University’s Student Challenges. Together, they reveal how the technologies tested for farming in space, like hydroponics, vertical farming, and AI-driven monitoring, are already shaping the future of horticulture and sustainable food systems on Earth. We explore: Why resource scarcity in space mirrors the challenges of urban food systemsHow vertical farming and hydroponics born from space research are revolutionizing citiesThe surprising psychological role plants play for astronauts, and what it means for usWhy water recycling in space could redefine how we handle wastewater on EarthThe startups that caught their attention with game-changing solutions🙏 LEAVE A REVIEW  If you like our podcast please leave us a review on your favourite platform – even one sentence helps! Thank you for your support; it helps the show a lot and it helps others to discover the show!  👋 GET IN TOUCH WITH US 👥 ⁠Linkedin⁠ 📸 ⁠Instagram⁠ 🌎 ⁠⁠Website⁠ 😊 The Guests: Look into WUR Student Challenges

    40 分鐘
  4. 9月17日

    The Part Listeners Didn't Skip -What Happens When Your Startup Grows Faster Than Your Mission? - from our conversation with the co-founder of Notpla, Rodrigo García

    What happens when your startup grows faster than your mission? For Rodrigo García, co-founder of Notpla, the answer is not as simple as “scale faster.”When you’re trying to replace plastic with seaweed-based packaging, ambition isn’t enough. You need to reinvent entire systems, change how people think about waste, and balance speed with integrity. In this short episode, we explore the tension that every mission-led startup eventually faces:How do you stay true to your values while scaling impact? Rodrigo shares what they’ve learned along the way.From navigating investor expectations to redefining product success. In 8 minutes, we dive into the messy middle of building something that matters. Listen to the whole conversation with Rodrigo ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. 👋 GET IN TOUCH WITH US 👥 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Linkedin⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠📸 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🌎⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    8 分鐘
  5. He Wanted to Start a Farm. Instead, He Builds a Tool to Transform 1,000 of Them - With co-founder of Collie, Daniel Reisman

    9月10日

    He Wanted to Start a Farm. Instead, He Builds a Tool to Transform 1,000 of Them - With co-founder of Collie, Daniel Reisman

    To revolutionize farming we need a solution that will change the life of farmers. That’s exactly what Daniel Reisman set out to do. After leaving behind a career in sales and a plan to start his own farm, Daniel co-founded Collie, a startup that’s rethinking livestock management with virtual fencing technology. By replacing physical fences with sound and vibration signals, Collie helps farmers move cows with an app—saving hours of labor, improving soil health, and making regenerative practices more practical. In this episode of Tomorrow’s Bites, Daniel shares the story of Collie’s beginnings, from scrappy prototypes strapped to cows’ necks to convincing skeptical farmers that the system really works. We explore: Why Daniel traded his dream of farming for food system innovationHow virtual fencing saves farmers time and unlocks regenerative grazingThe biggest lessons (and mistakes) from building agri-tech hardwareWhy trust is the biggest barrier for farm adoptionHow Collie plans to expand from the Netherlands to farms across Europe And much more... 🙏 LEAVE A REVIEW  If you like our podcast please leave us a review on your favourite platform – even one sentence helps! Thank you for your support; it helps the show a lot and it helps others to discover the show!  👋 GET IN TOUCH WITH US 👥 ⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠ 📸 ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠ 🌎 ⁠⁠⁠Website⁠⁠ 😊 The Guest: Daniel Reisman ✅ Their Work: Collie

    1 小時

簡介

Food is a problem, and this podcast is full of solutions. Every two weeks, Andrés and Sjacco sit down with the founders, farmers, investors, chefs, and other rebels who are reshaping the way food is grown, made, financed, and shared. From farmers building resilient, regenerative food systems to founders creating sustainable, healthy food products, and from impact investing to scaling agrifood companies, these are the stories, lessons, and strategies. If you’re building in agrifood, dreaming of something better, or hungry to understand the future of food, this podcast is for you.