Every few weeks, I receive a request via email or LinkedIn, or sometimes a referral that could broadly be classified as, “Help! How do you balance professional work and parenting work at the same time?” I typically use gender neutral language intentionally when discussing parenting, but truth be told, 100% of these requests have come from women.

“How did you get to where you are today?”

I’m often asked this question, though the asker isn’t always ready for the long and winding road that brought me to opening my own firm. Sometimes, it’s a pleasant question that opens up a conversation. And sometimes, the asker is a young person who dreams of starting their own niche business, or a woman in science who is searching for a roadmap that might resemble the one she’s charting.

Just four states have heat rules that protect farm workers. Though the Department of Labor is working towards creating some, an effort to create some regs for farm and construction workers in Miami-Dade county made some noise and fizzled out because commissioners worried the rules could “potentially kill industry.”

The latest food insecurity in the United States are the worst they’ve been since the Great Recession and are poised to get much worse as politicians push forward SNAP and WIC rollbacks.

If you, like me, enjoyed some tofu with rice noodles from time to time, I’ll go ahead and spoil things for you: You and all the tofu eaters out there were not the culprit. Neither were all the preschoolers eating their Dora the Explorer-branded edamame snack packs.

To reflect on 2023 and prepare for 2024, the Grow Well Consulting team sat down to discuss the challenges and opportunities they’re facing in the agriculture and food system worlds.

Structural systemic differences between the Irish and American models of dairy production illuminate opportunities to achieve more than 50% reductions in methane emissions with management changes that increase grazing, reduce manure storage, and incorporate novel feed ingredients.

For decades, there has been a growing divide between American farmland and American diets. In the last 5 years, this trend crossed some critical thresholds catapulting the ag land-rich US into new net food importer territory.

Alright folks, I know this feels like it’s lost all sense of meaning or structure, and just a reminder here, that we’re following the structure *line by line* of an essay that an industry leader described as “brilliant.” In case anyone is wondering how “climate smart ag” is going.

On cattle, climate, scientific uncertainty and whether we know enough to make better decisions.

In a world where the food system is facing multiple crises, from climate change to increases in diet-related diseases and mortality, innovation is an imperative. We need to innovate our food environment – how we choose and acquire food, where we eat, when we eat, who we eat with, how much time we take to eat – not just what we eat in order to achieve better health outcomes.

Food waste in the United States and across the globe is now estimated to account for about 8-10% of the food system’s climate impact.