Zero Acre Farms: Jeff Nobbs
🌽🧑🍳 Seed Oil, 🦠Fermentation, 🥗Nutrition 🚀 and more!
Fellow Climate Warriors, welcome to another episode of Climate Tech Cocktails.
In this episode, we’re grabbing a drink with Jeff Nobbs, co-founder and CEO of Zero Acre Farms.
Zero Acre Farms is on a mission to remove destructive vegetable oils from the food system. And we’re not going to stop until restaurant deep fryers, home pantries, and packaged foods around the world are finally free of these harmful oils and fats.
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📝 Show Notes Below👇
“I always questioned, “Why do people eat meat?”
...then, I came to the conclusion that I shouldn’t answer the why, I should just answer, how do we do this?”
-Jeff Nobbs, co-founder and CEO of Zero Acre Farms
Find Jeff on LinkedIn, and check out Zero Acre Farms website, here.
🥃 What we drank during the episode: Bunratty Mead (Matt) and homemade mead (Jeff).
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Companies/Startups mentioned during the show:
🦠Nest
🦠Mill
People/places/things mentioned during the show:
📚The Three-Body Problem (Cixin Liu)
📚Think and Grow Rich (Napoleon Hill)
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[00:00] Intro
[01:38] Drink of the Show
[04:51] Jeff’s Restaurants
[05:14] Katava
[06:36] Brian Spears - New Age Eats
[08:00] Are French Fries a Vegetable??
[09:43] The Uncanny Food Valley
[13:34] Jeff’s Family and His Health Journey
[16:37] Chronic Disease in Adults
[19:17] Key Foods Causing Chronic Disease
[21:49] Climate Impact of Cooking Oil Production
[22:46] Comparing the Impact of Different Oils
[26:06] Jeff’s Diet and Eating Habits
[29:21] Business Talk - Path to Entrepreneurship
[32:25] Jeff Living in China
[34:48] Lung Cancer and Cooking Oil
[35:57] Why is Zero Acre Farms Healthier?
[37:46] How Zero Acre Farms Oil is Made?
[38:48] Finding the Solution
[40:29] Seed Oil Competition
[42:39] Scaling Up the Business
[44:35] Approach to Investors
[45:11] Challenges with Supply Chain
[47:06] Challenge of Explaining the Product
[48:04] Intersection of Health and Climate
[50:06] Goal for Next 12-18 Months
[51:18] What's in a name?
[53:01] Matt’s Free Branding Advice
[55:02] Book recommendations
[58:11] Loved startups and founders
[01:02:31] Final Thoughts
[01:04:53] END