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Samantha has twenty years researching and advocating for regenerative farmers. She grew up in one of the most innovative Australian startups created in 1965, the Pancake Parlour restaurant group with her mother and father, Allan and Helen Trachsel. Allan, having come from 4 generations of wheat farmers that had lived through the dust bowl of the 1930’s in Goodland, Kansas so he had a strong affinity for farmers. When Samantha announced her desire to investigate and introduce organic food back in 1998 in response to the outbreak of mad cow disease in England Allan supported her wholeheartedly. And thus began a growing passion for her. They sponsored her studies affording her to attend many conferences around the world for over 10 years. Leaving the restaurant group to pursue this awareness more full-time, in the late 2000’s Samantha wrote three self-published books on solutions to the climate through agricultural practises. she self published them in 2006 and they are now in 7 languages designed for children in 2006. She has maintained a passion for communicating the relationship of soil health and microbes with human health, whilst advocating for farmers ever since. She became the first person to buy a soil carbon credit that stimulated the Australian government to address this area in 2006.

Mentors.

Jane Stewart, Peter Broadbent.

Paid business strategists and mentors who advise Climatefood’s startups.