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40 Kevin Egolf, how (retail) investors can provide land access to regen farmers
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Raised 50M dollars and helped regen farmers access over 10.000 acres of farmland.
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This time I’m joined by Kevin Egolf, Chief Financial Officer of Iroquois Valley Farms, a restorative farmland finance company providing land access to organic family farmers, with a focus on the next generation.
In this interview we talk about democratization of impact investing in regenerative agriculture. Why land security over a long period of time is key to soil health and sustainability (in all aspects) of farms.
We discussed many things, among them why Iroquois focusses on multi generational farming families and exclusively organic production, although many of the farmers they work with go well beyond organic. They are looking for farmers who want to improve agriculture every single year, to increase soil biodiversity, organic is ‘just’ the first step.
Some other insights:
- why they are starting to measure the carbon levels in the soil of the land they own
- their journey into the retail investor space and why it has been so long and why they are now almost ready to launch this!
Kevin: 'once they (red. the farmers they work with) get their organic certification then the opportunities just contin
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