The Future Herd
A podcast exploring how collective wisdom and adaptive leadership can help us navigate the profound transformations reshaping our food and agriculture systems.
The Future Herd is a podcast about leadership, adaptation, and collective intelligence in an age of uncertainty.
Each episode is a conversation with people working inside food systems, agriculture, policy, technology, and community—people navigating long-term change without a script. Rather than focusing on prediction, the show explores how futures are shaped through collaboration, negotiation, and lived experience.
The name reflects the premise: the future is not led by a single authority, but by many independent actors adapting together.
Future Herd salon
The End of the Cow
A live salon on Sohail Inayatullah and Ivana Milojević's The End of the Cow: And Other Emerging Issues: five emerging issues, from cellular agriculture to the anticipatory city, and why food systems sit at the centre of them.
Tuesday, November 3, 2026 · 2:00 p.m. Eastern · Facilitated by Jesse Hirsh · On the Future Herd Discord server
Latest episode
Jesse Hirsh sits down with Stanley Baer, founder of Worker Tractor and a veteran of electrifying lawn care equipment, to discuss the acute need for affordable, lighter-duty electric tractors in sustainable agriculture. Baer argues that by distributing power directly to individual wheels and keeping initial price points accessible, smaller-scale and organic farmers can finally bypass the prohibitive costs and high emissions of conventional diesel machinery.
Latest knowledge
Why Canadian agriculture's resistance to lightweight electrification risks ceding the future of small-scale farming to a manufacturing world we refuse to understand.
Latest intelligence
Modern farm promises are colliding with producer realities, as clean-fuel amendments, vertical-farm regulation, science uptake, diesel costs and debt shape adoption. Trust, Indigenous food sovereignty...
The Commons
The Future Herd is the starting point for a larger project: open participation infrastructure for food-system decisions. The Commons is an early-stage pilot where producers, eaters, workers, policy people, and anyone who cares about food can submit perspectives, respond to others, and help surface where common ground exists.
The first topic is food security. No institutional affiliation required.
As food systems, institutions, and communities face accelerating disruption, simple narratives and centralized solutions increasingly fail. The Future Herd creates space for slower thinking, critical reflection, and dialogue across disciplines—grounded in practice rather than hype.
If you are interested in how decisions are made under pressure, how authority is earned rather than assumed, and how collaboration becomes a form of leadership, this podcast is for you.
Many independent actors. Adapting together.