{"podcast":{"title":"Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food","slug":"investing-in-regenerative-agriculture-and-food-327782","podcast_index_feed_id":327782,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/1154870.rss","website_url":"https://www.investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/0i6e6jg0a2k4satzusoukq9vonmf?.jpg","author":"Koen van Seijen","episode_count":508,"summary":"Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food podcast features the pioneers in the regenerative food and agriculture space to learn more on how to put our money to work to regenerate soil, people, local communities and ecosystems while making an appropriate and fair return. Hosted by Koen van Seijen.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/investing-in-regenerative-agriculture-and-food-327782"},"episode":{"title":"420 Silke German – Creating the Tesla of beans by saving the milpa system","slug":"420-silke-german-creating-the-tesla-of-beans-by-saving-the-milpa-system","published_at":"2026-05-05T15:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/investing-in-regenerative-agriculture-and-food-327782/420-silke-german-creating-the-tesla-of-beans-by-saving-the-milpa-system","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/investing-in-regenerative-agriculture-and-food-327782","url":"https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/silke-german/","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/1154870/episodes/18878884-420-silke-german-creating-the-tesla-of-beans-by-saving-the-milpa-system.mp3","summary":"Mexico has thousands of bean varieties. Most people living in cities know four to five. Silke Gérman is on a mission to change that. She is the founder of La Comandanta, a premium heirloom bean and salsa brand now in its twelfth year of connecting smallholder milpa farmers in central Mexico to retail shelves in Mexico City, the US, the UK, and Germany. Ancient Mexican bean varieties — grown for millennia in the traditional milpa polyculture system alongside corn and squash — are disappearing...","meta_description":"Mexico has thousands of bean varieties. Most people living in cities know four to five. Silke Gérman is on a mission to change that. She is the founder of…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3745,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/investing-in-regenerative-agriculture-and-food-327782/episodes/420-silke-german-creating-the-tesla-of-beans-by-saving-the-milpa-system/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/investing-in-regenerative-agriculture-and-food-327782/420-silke-german-creating-the-tesla-of-beans-by-saving-the-milpa-system.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}