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.
Latest episode
In this conversation, Jennifer MacTavish, Kaitlyn Kitzan, RJ Taylor, and Tianna Brand examine the deepening leadership crisis in the agri-food sector against a backdrop of compounding global and economic crises. The panellists explore how systemic risk aversion is paralyzing traditional governance, and argue that building resilience requires abandoning obsolete status-quo models in favor of radical collaboration, peer-to-peer connection, and reimagined engagement.
Latest knowledge
Agri-food leaders are finding that maintaining the status quo during prolonged volatility is far riskier than embracing structural discomfort.
Latest intelligence
Canadian agriculture confronts acute financial exposure as Washington enacts 50 percent tariffs on major export categories following the breakdown of trade negotiations, triggering Ottawa's suspension...
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.
Past Future Herd salon
Feed the People!
A live conversation on agrifood industry, public capacity, and how change happens.
Held Tuesday, August 25, 2026 · Facilitated by Jesse Hirsh
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.