Scaling Successful Farms and Partnerships with Joelle Faulkner

In this episode of GTF, Dan chats with Joelle Faulkner. Joelle Faulkner is President and CEO of Area One Farms, an alternative asset management firm. She created a farmer-centric private equity model to simultaneously help scale Canadian family farms and deliver premium investor returns.

This is what you will learn in this episode: 

• How Joelle obtained multiple degrees studying all across the world
• The relation Joelle has with farmers, having grown up on the farm
• The unique way Area One Farms invests with farmers and partners
• How Area One helps farmers expand to exactly what they need for the future generations
• Why they decided to stay out of land flipping
• Joelle's thoughts and feelings on Carbon
• Why growing more food is at the top of Joelle's list
• The details of what an investment and partnerships look like with Area One Farms
• Mistakes that have happened in past partnerships
• How Joelle and Dan have worked together in the past, present, and plans for the future

Want to learn more about Area One Farms? 

https://areaonefarms.ca

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