Aland Episode 2 - Chef Victor Local High Quality Foods

About this episode

This episode features chef Victor discussing local and natural foods in the context of regenerative practices on the Finnish Island of Aland.

In summer 2025 Tree Amble was invited to the Finnish Island of Aland to meet with a group of people trying to safeguard and restore the traditional wood pastures on the island through regenerative practices. The project, run by Patricia Wiklund and her colleagues, is aimed at bringing farmers together to learn and discuss regen techniques and to look at ways of re-evaluating their traditional pastures in a modern way. They still have extremely biodiverse pastures scattered around more intensive farms. Whilst in Aland we met with farmers, project managers, the water company, foresters, chefs and Jenni who is promoting food tourism. We came away with 4 Tree Amble podcasts - this second one is with chef Victor who promotes local and natural foods where he can.

People in this episode

Host: Peter Leeson

Guest: Victor

Topics covered

• regenerative practices
• food tourism
• local foods
• biodiversity
• traditional pastures

Keywords

• Aland
• chef Victor
• local foods
• regenerative agriculture
• food tourism
• biodiversity
• traditional pastures

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Tree Amble

Places: Aland, Finnish Island

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