Who are we?
Our Mission
Sustainable Table is a not-for-profit organisation regenerating food and farming in Australia from the ground up.
The majority of the food we eat is grown and produced in ways that are harmful to people and the planet. Agriculture is a leading contributor to the climate crisis and wreaks havoc on ecosystems and communities across the world.
Together, we can take action to enable resilient agricultural ecosystems, create thriving communities and reimagine economies.
Our Principles
8 principles underpin our work regenerating Australian food and farming.
01
Regenerative
We put life at the centre of every action and decision.
02
Transformative
We connect catalytic capital with courageous change makers to transform the story behind the food we grow and eat.
03
Place-based
Our work is grounded in the nuances and wisdom of place. We listen carefully to the people on the ground and follow the lead of natural ecosystems.
04
Holistic
Our planet is a living and interconnected system made up of complex relationships. We always account for the whole picture.
05
First Nations First
We prioritise First Nations equity, leadership and sovereignty and place First Nations-led solutions front and centre.
06
Relational
Strong and meaningful relationships are at the heart of what we do. We move at the speed of trust.
07
Transparent Collaboration
Collaboration is our superpower and we do this work out in the open so that others may learn from our missteps and our progress.
08
Humility
Working with nature is inherently humbling. We listen, we learn and we adapt with grace.
Our Principles
8 principles underpin our work regenerating Australian food and farming.
01
Regenerative
We put life at the centre of every action and decision.
02
Transformative
We connect catalytic capital with courageous change makers to transform the story behind the food we grow and eat.
03
Place-based
Our work is grounded in the nuances and wisdom of place. We listen carefully to the people on the ground and follow the lead of natural ecosystems.
04
Holistic
Our planet is a living and interconnected system made up of complex relationships. We always account for the whole picture.
05
First Nations First
We prioritise First Nations equity, leadership and sovereignty and place First Nations-led solutions front and centre.
06
Relational
Strong and meaningful relationships are at the heart of what we do. We move at the speed of trust.
07
Transparent Collaboration
Collaboration is our superpower and we do this work out in the open so that others may learn from our missteps and our progress.
08
Humility
Working with nature is inherently humbling. We listen, we learn and we adapt with grace.
Our Impact Areas
We are committeed to cultivating a regenerative future where people, the land, and ecosystems flourish together.
We are healing and regenerating the land for a resilient future.
At Sustainable Table we recognise that how we grow our food matters. Over the last 100 years, industrial farming has caused immeasurable damage and significantly contributed to the climate crisis. We support those farmers who are revitalising the ecosystems they are a part of and adapting for climate resilience.
At Sustainable Table we recognise that how we grow our food matters. Over the last 100 years, industrial farming has caused immeasurable damage and significantly contributed to the climate crisis. We support those farmers who are revitalising the ecosystems they are a part of and adapting for climate resilience.
Local communities are best placed to identify what is required to regenerate food and farming in Australia. We support the people on the ground to strengthen and grow local food systems. Together, we are enabling interconnected, resilient, and prosperous food and farming communities, rooted in place.
At Sustainable Table we are dedicated to creating a world where economies serve as vehicles for regenerating our planet and communities. We are co-creating funding and investment solutions to meet the unique needs of those change makers who are working hard to transform food and farming.
Meet our team of change makers operating behind the scenes to bring the regeneration to life.
ATIC Project Coordinator and Industry Development Liaison
ATIC Project Coordinator and Industry Development Liaison
Erin is dedicated to bridging divides and fostering unity within our farming community. Raised by a broad acre farming father and a permaculture-inspired mother, she's inherited a deep appreciation for balance and inclusivity in agriculture. Erin is here to organise the ATIC project for success and create spaces where everyone feels heard and valued. With a natural sense of timing and a genuine ability to empathise with others, she's committed to driving positive change and cultivating a sense of belonging among all stakeholders.
Erin is dedicated to bridging divides and fostering unity within our farming community. Raised by a broad acre farming father and a permaculture-inspired mother, she's inherited a deep appreciation for balance and inclusivity in agriculture. Erin is here to organise the ATIC project for success and create spaces where everyone feels heard and valued. With a natural sense of timing and a genuine ability to empathise with others, she's committed to driving positive change and cultivating a sense of belonging among all stakeholders.
CEO
CEO
With the bush in her bones and business in her head, Jade Miles is a poly-jobist to the core. She’s a local food advocate and educator, business builder, food co-op founder, author, podcaster and regenerative heritage fruit farmer.
Together with her husband and three kids, Jade runs Black Barn Farm, a biodiverse orchard, nursery and workshop space in Northeast Victoria. She’s an active presence in the regenerative space, hosting school programs, permaculture and homesteading workshops while sitting on multiple boards – all in the name of reconnecting people to nature, food and a simpler existence.
Before landing at Sustainable Table, Jade ran her own business start-up consultancy for over a decade, worked as Industry Development Manager for the Regional Tourism Board and established the Beechworth Food Co-op for good measure. She brings this breadth of skills and relentless enthusiasm to her role at ST, where she joins the dots between Our Fund and incredible regenerative projects around the country to build capacity and expedite change.
“We all eat, and by celebrating our farmers and considering our choices we can make a profound difference to rural Australia, our health, our land and our culture.”
With the bush in her bones and business in her head, Jade Miles is a poly-jobist to the core. She’s a local food advocate and educator, business builder, food co-op founder, author, podcaster and regenerative heritage fruit farmer.
Together with her husband and three kids, Jade runs Black Barn Farm, a biodiverse orchard, nursery and workshop space in Northeast Victoria. She’s an active presence in the regenerative space, hosting school programs, permaculture and homesteading workshops while sitting on multiple boards – all in the name of reconnecting people to nature, food and a simpler existence.
Before landing at Sustainable Table, Jade ran her own business start-up consultancy for over a decade, worked as Industry Development Manager for the Regional Tourism Board and established the Beechworth Food Co-op for good measure. She brings this breadth of skills and relentless enthusiasm to her role at ST, where she joins the dots between Our Fund and incredible regenerative projects around the country to build capacity and expedite change.
“We all eat, and by celebrating our farmers and considering our choices we can make a profound difference to rural Australia, our health, our land and our culture.”
Operations & Projects Manager
Operations & Projects Manager
Jess Eddy is a degree-qualified nutritionist and passionate foodie who has spent much of the past decade working in Melbourne’s health and food industries. A former Sustainable Table volunteer, Jess has stepped into the Operations & Projects Coordinator role for the growing team, providing support for the day-to-day running of the organisation and fund.
Jess gets excited by food’s potential to create change, and the positive impact food can have on individuals, the community, and the environment. When she’s not at ST or running her side business, Jess loves to spend her time visiting one of Melbourne’s many cafes, restaurants and bars or her local farmers’ market.
Jess Eddy is a degree-qualified nutritionist and passionate foodie who has spent much of the past decade working in Melbourne’s health and food industries. A former Sustainable Table volunteer, Jess has stepped into the Operations & Projects Coordinator role for the growing team, providing support for the day-to-day running of the organisation and fund.
Jess gets excited by food’s potential to create change, and the positive impact food can have on individuals, the community, and the environment. When she’s not at ST or running her side business, Jess loves to spend her time visiting one of Melbourne’s many cafes, restaurants and bars or her local farmers’ market.
Business Operations Assistant
Business Operations Assistant
Jessie is a passionate advocate of food system transformation through agroecology and localised food systems. While she was completing a Master of Environment at Griffith University, she became immersed in research about how food sovereignty can address the complex social, political, economic and ecological barriers to climate change adaptation. During her studies, she joined the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) as General Coordinator, where she still works.
Jessie has joined Sustainable Table as Business Operations Assistant to help coordinate the organisation’s key projects and ST Fund. She’s excited about enabling farmer-led regeneration of Australia’s food system and is proud to be part of creating a sustainable food system. When she’s not working at ST or AFSA, Jessie spends her time running, reading and baking sweet treats.
Jessie is a passionate advocate of food system transformation through agroecology and localised food systems. While she was completing a Master of Environment at Griffith University, she became immersed in research about how food sovereignty can address the complex social, political, economic and ecological barriers to climate change adaptation. During her studies, she joined the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) as General Coordinator, where she still works.
Jessie has joined Sustainable Table as Business Operations Assistant to help coordinate the organisation’s key projects and ST Fund. She’s excited about enabling farmer-led regeneration of Australia’s food system and is proud to be part of creating a sustainable food system. When she’s not working at ST or AFSA, Jessie spends her time running, reading and baking sweet treats.
Industry Development Team Manager
Industry Development Team Manager
Jodi is a connector, facilitator and sustainability consultant, based on Wurundjeri Country in Melbourne’s Dandenong Ranges.
In her previous role as Program Manager, Ripe for Change (https://sustainabletable.org.au/fund-projects/), Jodi helped bring to life a place-based collaborative funding model that supported food system projects in south-east Melbourne, Victoria. What began in 2017 as a small community grants program, evolved into a powerful connector in the region and proved to be a successful funding model that has helped to shape where Sustainable Table is today. In her current position as Industry Development Manager, Jodi continues to connect, convene and support community leaders and innovators in Australia’s regenerative food and farming system. Seeing local, collaborative initiatives push the needle in a healthy, regenerative direction gives Jodi immense hope.
Jodi holds a Bachelor of Environmental Science (Honours) and more years’ experience within not-for-profit organisations, local and state government authorities, and academia than she cares to admit. Environmental sustainability challenges are her forte, with experience in sustainable food systems, integrated transport and land use planning, and urban water management.
Jodi is a connector, facilitator and sustainability consultant, based on Wurundjeri Country in Melbourne’s Dandenong Ranges.
In her previous role as Program Manager, Ripe for Change (https://sustainabletable.org.au/fund-projects/), Jodi helped bring to life a place-based collaborative funding model that supported food system projects in south-east Melbourne, Victoria. What began in 2017 as a small community grants program, evolved into a powerful connector in the region and proved to be a successful funding model that has helped to shape where Sustainable Table is today. In her current position as Industry Development Manager, Jodi continues to connect, convene and support community leaders and innovators in Australia’s regenerative food and farming system. Seeing local, collaborative initiatives push the needle in a healthy, regenerative direction gives Jodi immense hope.
Jodi holds a Bachelor of Environmental Science (Honours) and more years’ experience within not-for-profit organisations, local and state government authorities, and academia than she cares to admit. Environmental sustainability challenges are her forte, with experience in sustainable food systems, integrated transport and land use planning, and urban water management.
Industry Development Coordinator
Industry Development Coordinator
Kristie’s passion for regenerative agriculture stems from her love of growing food and cooking. Over the past 9 years, she has worked with regenerative food producers and retailers in broad roles that included operations, communications, planning and strategy, sales and account management.
Kristie is inspired by the opportunity for transformational change that regenerative farming represents and is on a mission to accelerate that change. Alongside her work at Sustainable Table, Kristie provides strategy and marketing support to food brands in the regenerative grain space.
Kristie’s passion for regenerative agriculture stems from her love of growing food and cooking. Over the past 9 years, she has worked with regenerative food producers and retailers in broad roles that included operations, communications, planning and strategy, sales and account management.
Kristie is inspired by the opportunity for transformational change that regenerative farming represents and is on a mission to accelerate that change. Alongside her work at Sustainable Table, Kristie provides strategy and marketing support to food brands in the regenerative grain space.
Industry Development Manager
Industry Development Manager
Kristy is a land steward, community connector and 5th generation farmer born at Yan Yan Gurt West, an award winning, carbon neutral sheep and agroforestry farm on Wadawurrung and Gadubanud Country in Victoria.
She holds a B. Agricultural Sciences and works in the education space as a Landcare project officer, Agricultural systems consultant and is part of the team co-managing her family farm where she runs educational tours on agriculture, agroforestry and landscape connection.
You’ll often find Kristy out and about working to support projects such as ‘Future food systems’ in Melbourne, advocating for the Otway Agroforestry Network, sitting on the Landcare Victoria members council, or diving the Otway’s coastline.
Kristy brings her experience from farming, travelling, finding mentors and deepening her understanding of agriculture, systems thinking, land management and people’s inherent connection to landscape to her role at ST. She feels that one of the greatest things we can do at this time, is for people to reconnect to our food source and remember our connection to the natural world.
Kristy is a land steward, community connector and 5th generation farmer born at Yan Yan Gurt West, an award winning, carbon neutral sheep and agroforestry farm on Wadawurrung and Gadubanud Country in Victoria.
She holds a B. Agricultural Sciences and works in the education space as a Landcare project officer, Agricultural systems consultant and is part of the team co-managing her family farm where she runs educational tours on agriculture, agroforestry and landscape connection.
You’ll often find Kristy out and about working to support projects such as ‘Future food systems’ in Melbourne, advocating for the Otway Agroforestry Network, sitting on the Landcare Victoria members council, or diving the Otway’s coastline.
Kristy brings her experience from farming, travelling, finding mentors and deepening her understanding of agriculture, systems thinking, land management and people’s inherent connection to landscape to her role at ST. She feels that one of the greatest things we can do at this time, is for people to reconnect to our food source and remember our connection to the natural world.
Digital Communications & Philanthropic Partnerships Coordinator
Digital Communications & Philanthropic Partnerships Coordinator
Liv McCrimmon is a marketing specialist, event curator and cook. She’s dedicated the last 10 years to sustainably focused businesses in the food and fashion industries across Melbourne and New York. With a love of story-telling, she eagerly seeks to engage and educate audiences in meaningful and impactful ways.
Beyond her role at ST, Liv spends her time by the beach or in the kitchen, alongside running an event curation company that celebrates sustainable, artisanal and local businesses and creators.
Liv McCrimmon is a marketing specialist, event curator and cook. She’s dedicated the last 10 years to sustainably focused businesses in the food and fashion industries across Melbourne and New York. With a love of story-telling, she eagerly seeks to engage and educate audiences in meaningful and impactful ways.
Beyond her role at ST, Liv spends her time by the beach or in the kitchen, alongside running an event curation company that celebrates sustainable, artisanal and local businesses and creators.
Communications Manager
Communications Manager
Megan lives and breathes sustainability and the majority of her work over the last 10 years has focused on leaving behind a more equitable and regenerative world than the one she was born into. She is an experienced educator, writer, researcher and sustainability consultant who loves to nerd out on all things systems change. Megan is really excited to use her storytelling skills to amplify the transformative work of folks in the regenerative agriculture industry.
In 2016, she walked 3500km across Southeast Asia as part of a project called Walk Sew Good, to learn from and share the stories of people creating fashion in positive and sustainable ways. Outside of her work with Sustainable Table, she runs an education social enterprise that connects young people with their impact and empowers them to be active citizens and change makers.
Megan lives and breathes sustainability and the majority of her work over the last 10 years has focused on leaving behind a more equitable and regenerative world than the one she was born into. She is an experienced educator, writer, researcher and sustainability consultant who loves to nerd out on all things systems change. Megan is really excited to use her storytelling skills to amplify the transformative work of folks in the regenerative agriculture industry.
In 2016, she walked 3500km across Southeast Asia as part of a project called Walk Sew Good, to learn from and share the stories of people creating fashion in positive and sustainable ways. Outside of her work with Sustainable Table, she runs an education social enterprise that connects young people with their impact and empowers them to be active citizens and change makers.
Finance & Business Manager
Finance & Business Manager
Sam is an experienced Chartered Accountant and graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors who brings a wealth of experience in finance and governance to the team.
Sam is passionate about using her skillset to create resilient and efficient processes and teams to conquer the global challenges we face. Building better food and farming systems requires a wide variety of skillsets, diversity of thought and problem solving skills. Sam takes pride in contributing to that work through her role as Financial Manager at Sustainable Table.
Sam is an experienced Chartered Accountant and graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors who brings a wealth of experience in finance and governance to the team.
Sam is passionate about using her skillset to create resilient and efficient processes and teams to conquer the global challenges we face. Building better food and farming systems requires a wide variety of skillsets, diversity of thought and problem solving skills. Sam takes pride in contributing to that work through her role as Financial Manager at Sustainable Table.
Investment Partnerships Manager
Investment Partnerships Manager
Tanya Massy is a writer and lifelong apprentice of farming who has worked across urban, rural and remote communities to reconnect people, food and country. (And before you ask, yep, Tanya is Charles Massy’s daughter. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.) Her academic background spans Community Development and Indigenous Studies, with a Masters in Agricultural Science.
Tanya Massy is a writer and lifelong apprentice of farming who has worked across urban, rural and remote communities to reconnect people, food and country. (And before you ask, yep, Tanya is Charles Massy’s daughter. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.) Her academic background spans Community Development and Indigenous Studies, with a Masters in Agricultural Science.
Co-founder and Board Chair
Co-founder and Board Chair
In her role as Executive Director of her Family Office, the Morris Group, Hayley leads the Group’s sustainability across their operations which span hospitality, tourism, brewing, aviation, and agriculture. Hayley also leads her family’s philanthropy and impact investments through the Morris Family Foundation with a focus on climate change and regenerative food systems.
Other than Sustainable Table, Hayley has founded several organisations including software business Impact Sustainability and strategic sustainability consultancy Rewild Agency. She has held various not-for-profit board roles including Australian Environmental Grantmakers Network, The Impact Club and The Next Economy.
In her role as Executive Director of her Family Office, the Morris Group, Hayley leads the Group’s sustainability across their operations which span hospitality, tourism, brewing, aviation, and agriculture. Hayley also leads her family’s philanthropy and impact investments through the Morris Family Foundation with a focus on climate change and regenerative food systems.
Other than Sustainable Table, Hayley has founded several organisations including software business Impact Sustainability and strategic sustainability consultancy Rewild Agency. She has held various not-for-profit board roles including Australian Environmental Grantmakers Network, The Impact Club and The Next Economy.
Co-founder
Co-founder
The belief that every dollar we spend is a vote for the type of food system and world we would like to be a part of, is what Sustainable Table was founded on and the inspiration Hayley and Cassie had to start something that brought joy, humour and great tasting seasonal food to tackle some pretty big environmental challenges.
During her 12 years at Sustainable Table, Cassie leveraged her background in marketing and communications to build an organisation, and life, around an ethos that places individual actions at the heart of building resilient communities, food systems and a world that respects and restores the natural environment.
Some career highlights from her time at Sustainable Table included writing and producing The Sustainable Table educational cookbook, which won Best Sustainable Food Book at the 2012 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards; launching Sustainable Table’s previous website; developing the Give a Fork! campaign and launching Mt Martha Farmers’ Market.
The belief that every dollar we spend is a vote for the type of food system and world we would like to be a part of, is what Sustainable Table was founded on and the inspiration Hayley and Cassie had to start something that brought joy, humour and great tasting seasonal food to tackle some pretty big environmental challenges.
During her 12 years at Sustainable Table, Cassie leveraged her background in marketing and communications to build an organisation, and life, around an ethos that places individual actions at the heart of building resilient communities, food systems and a world that respects and restores the natural environment.
Some career highlights from her time at Sustainable Table included writing and producing The Sustainable Table educational cookbook, which won Best Sustainable Food Book at the 2012 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards; launching Sustainable Table’s previous website; developing the Give a Fork! campaign and launching Mt Martha Farmers’ Market.
Strategic Advisor
Strategic Advisor
Joshua is a Worimi man, farmer and academic, who shares the narration of Indigenous identity through agricultural truths in light of modern contexts.
Josh’s work seeks to connect traditional Aboriginal knowledge and history to current contexts, translating past wisdom and learning to future opportunities. His work combines the old and the new, weaving them together to develop new insights and findings.
He is undertaking higher degree research at Charles Sturt University, is the Indigenous Co-Chair of Reconciliation NSW and was recently recognised within the world’s top 50 young gastronomers.
He is an entrepreneur and business advisor, working predominantly in the Aboriginal cultural, agricultural and environmental spheres. He has worked with numerous of not for profits, businesses and the government to develop change and bring people on a journey of change.
Joshua is a Worimi man, farmer and academic, who shares the narration of Indigenous identity through agricultural truths in light of modern contexts.
Josh’s work seeks to connect traditional Aboriginal knowledge and history to current contexts, translating past wisdom and learning to future opportunities. His work combines the old and the new, weaving them together to develop new insights and findings.
He is undertaking higher degree research at Charles Sturt University, is the Indigenous Co-Chair of Reconciliation NSW and was recently recognised within the world’s top 50 young gastronomers.
He is an entrepreneur and business advisor, working predominantly in the Aboriginal cultural, agricultural and environmental spheres. He has worked with numerous of not for profits, businesses and the government to develop change and bring people on a journey of change.
Strategic Advisor
Strategic Advisor
Over the past 20 odd years Robert has been challenging and transforming the food and agricultural system in Australia. As a former organic dairy farmer and market gardener he has become known as a practical and hands on social entrepreneur working at the systems end of changing the way business can pivot away from the malaise the current food system works.
In 2004 he founded Food Connect, a dynamic multi-farmer food distribution enterprise with an innovative community-based distribution system. In 2009, the Food Connect Foundation was launched to increase the scope of the fair food movement internationally and across Australia.
Robert is a member of the national board of Australian Social Enterprise Advisory Group, co-founder of the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance, and a founding member on the Board of The global software organisation Open Food Network. He is a contributing author to Fair Food, published by University of Queensland Press.
In 2018, he co-founded the Food Connect Shed to raise over $2million with the Food Connect community to buy the warehouse they’d been renting for over 12 years, through an equity crowdfunding campaign.
Rob is a well known speaker in the Fair Food movement. He loves his blended family of four children, and his favourite foods are beer, butter and good bread.
Over the past 20 odd years Robert has been challenging and transforming the food and agricultural system in Australia. As a former organic dairy farmer and market gardener he has become known as a practical and hands on social entrepreneur working at the systems end of changing the way business can pivot away from the malaise the current food system works.
In 2004 he founded Food Connect, a dynamic multi-farmer food distribution enterprise with an innovative community-based distribution system. In 2009, the Food Connect Foundation was launched to increase the scope of the fair food movement internationally and across Australia.
Robert is a member of the national board of Australian Social Enterprise Advisory Group, co-founder of the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance, and a founding member on the Board of The global software organisation Open Food Network. He is a contributing author to Fair Food, published by University of Queensland Press.
In 2018, he co-founded the Food Connect Shed to raise over $2million with the Food Connect community to buy the warehouse they’d been renting for over 12 years, through an equity crowdfunding campaign.
Rob is a well known speaker in the Fair Food movement. He loves his blended family of four children, and his favourite foods are beer, butter and good bread.
Strategic Advisor
Strategic Advisor
When she’s not championing food system resilience and connection through her life’s work the Open Food Network, this ground-breaking and land-healing human, together with her partner Kirsten and their two kids, split their time between Violet Town and a Yurt at Pukawidgee, their regenerative farm in Warrenbaynee. Here they’re exploring and enacting a collaborative farm share model that has ecological restoration at its heart.
Serenity is a co-founder of Open Food Network, and a Director of both Open Food Foundation and Open Food Network Australia. Her work with OFN focuses on sector and enterprise development; advocacy, research and project development and implementation to expand regenerative agriculture in Australia and the values-based supply networks that undergird it.
Her breadth of food system knowledge, connection and experience is integral to shaping and guiding the work of the Sustainable Table Fund – gee whiz we’re lucky to have her.
When she’s not championing food system resilience and connection through her life’s work the Open Food Network, this ground-breaking and land-healing human, together with her partner Kirsten and their two kids, split their time between Violet Town and a Yurt at Pukawidgee, their regenerative farm in Warrenbaynee. Here they’re exploring and enacting a collaborative farm share model that has ecological restoration at its heart.
Serenity is a co-founder of Open Food Network, and a Director of both Open Food Foundation and Open Food Network Australia. Her work with OFN focuses on sector and enterprise development; advocacy, research and project development and implementation to expand regenerative agriculture in Australia and the values-based supply networks that undergird it.
Her breadth of food system knowledge, connection and experience is integral to shaping and guiding the work of the Sustainable Table Fund – gee whiz we’re lucky to have her.
Strategic Advisor
Strategic Advisor
Born into agriculture in the Upper Hunter Valley, NSW and having worked and travelled much of Australia and the globe, Justin now calls Western Australia home with his wife and teenage daughter. Justin brings decades of experience to focus on the necessary changes to our food and land use systems by managing the interface between Conservation, First Nations, and commercial agriculture. He co-founded and established RegenWA to provide support for practitioners of, and those interested in, regenerative agriculture, and has close ties with the farming community so he can effectively communicate their needs to different stakeholders.
Justin works with multiple NFPs, family offices, corporations and conservation organisations tackling wicked problems with blue ocean thinking and seeking solutions from well outside the box.Justin is one of Commonland’s West Australian partners (a Dutch-based global landscape restoration project enabler) to engage with the community and share the learnings and opportunities that regenerative agriculture offers. He is the Regenerative Ag advisor and Director of Impact Seed Partnerships (Impact Seed is WA’s peak capacity builder for impact investment and social enterprise development) working towards systems-change finance and entrepreneurship.
Completing his MBA in 2017, Justin sought to gain insight to the business world that he didn’t get exposure to from a life in agriculture. He observed there needs to be greater prosperity beyond the unsustainable perpetual growth mindset, and that many solutions lie in the unobserved or unrecognised spaces of community. His aim is to demonstrate that traditional owners already have the solutions to our structural and social problems and supports the Uluru Statement from the Heart and a First Nations voice to parliament.
Born into agriculture in the Upper Hunter Valley, NSW and having worked and travelled much of Australia and the globe, Justin now calls Western Australia home with his wife and teenage daughter. Justin brings decades of experience to focus on the necessary changes to our food and land use systems by managing the interface between Conservation, First Nations, and commercial agriculture. He co-founded and established RegenWA to provide support for practitioners of, and those interested in, regenerative agriculture, and has close ties with the farming community so he can effectively communicate their needs to different stakeholders.
Justin works with multiple NFPs, family offices, corporations and conservation organisations tackling wicked problems with blue ocean thinking and seeking solutions from well outside the box.Justin is one of Commonland’s West Australian partners (a Dutch-based global landscape restoration project enabler) to engage with the community and share the learnings and opportunities that regenerative agriculture offers. He is the Regenerative Ag advisor and Director of Impact Seed Partnerships (Impact Seed is WA’s peak capacity builder for impact investment and social enterprise development) working towards systems-change finance and entrepreneurship.
Completing his MBA in 2017, Justin sought to gain insight to the business world that he didn’t get exposure to from a life in agriculture. He observed there needs to be greater prosperity beyond the unsustainable perpetual growth mindset, and that many solutions lie in the unobserved or unrecognised spaces of community. His aim is to demonstrate that traditional owners already have the solutions to our structural and social problems and supports the Uluru Statement from the Heart and a First Nations voice to parliament.
Co-founder and Board Chair
Co-founder and Board Chair
In her role as Executive Director of her Family Office, the Morris Group, Hayley leads the Group’s sustainability across their operations which span hospitality, tourism, brewing, aviation, and agriculture. Hayley also leads her family’s philanthropy and impact investments through the Morris Family Foundation with a focus on climate change and regenerative food systems.
Other than Sustainable Table, Hayley has founded several organisations including software business Impact Sustainability and strategic sustainability consultancy Rewild Agency. She has held various not-for-profit board roles including Australian Environmental Grantmakers Network, The Impact Club and The Next Economy.
In her role as Executive Director of her Family Office, the Morris Group, Hayley leads the Group’s sustainability across their operations which span hospitality, tourism, brewing, aviation, and agriculture. Hayley also leads her family’s philanthropy and impact investments through the Morris Family Foundation with a focus on climate change and regenerative food systems.
Other than Sustainable Table, Hayley has founded several organisations including software business Impact Sustainability and strategic sustainability consultancy Rewild Agency. She has held various not-for-profit board roles including Australian Environmental Grantmakers Network, The Impact Club and The Next Economy.
Board Member
Board Member
Lauren’s personal professional experience spans 20 years in the ‘corporate world’ within large organisations globally. She is the current Head of Sustainability Strategy at Republic of Everyone and has spent her career proving the business case for sustainability, or put more simply, making doing good, good for business. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business, a Masters in Sustainable Development and is currently a PHD candidate at UNSW Business School focusing on sustainability and innovation.
Personally she is a woman of many interests, Lauren is also a mum of two, unexpected adventurer, podcaster, a wanna be regenerative farmer and an advocate for living more slowly and sustainably.
Lauren’s personal professional experience spans 20 years in the ‘corporate world’ within large organisations globally. She is the current Head of Sustainability Strategy at Republic of Everyone and has spent her career proving the business case for sustainability, or put more simply, making doing good, good for business. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business, a Masters in Sustainable Development and is currently a PHD candidate at UNSW Business School focusing on sustainability and innovation.
Personally she is a woman of many interests, Lauren is also a mum of two, unexpected adventurer, podcaster, a wanna be regenerative farmer and an advocate for living more slowly and sustainably.
Board Member
Board Member
Philippa Hodson is a motivated and passionate foodie, mother and global citizen. She learned about Sustainable Table after buying our first cookbook way back when (which still commands pride of place on her shelf! Onya Pip) and has since become indispensable to our organisation.
Pip’s professional experience spans corporate remediation solutions, organic food manufacturing, fine dining, impact investing and grant making. She’s Executive Director and Chairman of the Board for The Garry White Foundation; was involved in our 2018 Victorian Community Grants program as a funder; and we’re thrilled that her skills and talents are now formally embedded within ST as a member of the Board.
As well as advocating for healthy and inclusive food systems, Pip advocates for daily horse rides (she’s a keen showjumper), weekend farmers’ market forays and crafting the most incredible wholefood recipes from scratch.
Philippa Hodson is a motivated and passionate foodie, mother and global citizen. She learned about Sustainable Table after buying our first cookbook way back when (which still commands pride of place on her shelf! Onya Pip) and has since become indispensable to our organisation.
Pip’s professional experience spans corporate remediation solutions, organic food manufacturing, fine dining, impact investing and grant making. She’s Executive Director and Chairman of the Board for The Garry White Foundation; was involved in our 2018 Victorian Community Grants program as a funder; and we’re thrilled that her skills and talents are now formally embedded within ST as a member of the Board.
As well as advocating for healthy and inclusive food systems, Pip advocates for daily horse rides (she’s a keen showjumper), weekend farmers’ market forays and crafting the most incredible wholefood recipes from scratch.
Board Member
Board Member
Rebecca is an ecological farmer using the principles of Holistic Management to improve the biodiversity and well-being of her family’s farm in southern NSW. She is a former award-winning journalist working as a foreign Correspondent and across a range of ABC Radio and TV programs. In her philanthropic work, she seeks to help improve the way we manage our land, grow our food and share it.
Rebecca is an ecological farmer using the principles of Holistic Management to improve the biodiversity and well-being of her family’s farm in southern NSW. She is a former award-winning journalist working as a foreign Correspondent and across a range of ABC Radio and TV programs. In her philanthropic work, she seeks to help improve the way we manage our land, grow our food and share it.
Board Member
Board Member
Born into agriculture in the Upper Hunter Valley, NSW and having worked and travelled much of Australia and the globe, Justin now calls Western Australia home with his wife and teenage daughter. Justin brings decades of experience to focus on the necessary changes to our food and land use systems by managing the interface between Conservation, First Nations, and commercial agriculture. He co-founded and established RegenWA to provide support for practitioners of, and those interested in, regenerative agriculture, and has close ties with the farming community so he can effectively communicate their needs to different stakeholders.
Justin works with multiple NFPs, family offices, corporations and conservation organisations tackling wicked problems with blue ocean thinking and seeking solutions from well outside the box.Justin is one of Commonland’s West Australian partners (a Dutch-based global landscape restoration project enabler) to engage with the community and share the learnings and opportunities that regenerative agriculture offers. He is the Regenerative Ag advisor and Director of Impact Seed Partnerships (Impact Seed is WA’s peak capacity builder for impact investment and social enterprise development) working towards systems-change finance and entrepreneurship.
Completing his MBA in 2017, Justin sought to gain insight to the business world that he didn’t get exposure to from a life in agriculture. He observed there needs to be greater prosperity beyond the unsustainable perpetual growth mindset, and that many solutions lie in the unobserved or unrecognised spaces of community. His aim is to demonstrate that traditional owners already have the solutions to our structural and social problems and supports the Uluru Statement from the Heart and a First Nations voice to parliament.
Born into agriculture in the Upper Hunter Valley, NSW and having worked and travelled much of Australia and the globe, Justin now calls Western Australia home with his wife and teenage daughter. Justin brings decades of experience to focus on the necessary changes to our food and land use systems by managing the interface between Conservation, First Nations, and commercial agriculture. He co-founded and established RegenWA to provide support for practitioners of, and those interested in, regenerative agriculture, and has close ties with the farming community so he can effectively communicate their needs to different stakeholders.
Justin works with multiple NFPs, family offices, corporations and conservation organisations tackling wicked problems with blue ocean thinking and seeking solutions from well outside the box.Justin is one of Commonland’s West Australian partners (a Dutch-based global landscape restoration project enabler) to engage with the community and share the learnings and opportunities that regenerative agriculture offers. He is the Regenerative Ag advisor and Director of Impact Seed Partnerships (Impact Seed is WA’s peak capacity builder for impact investment and social enterprise development) working towards systems-change finance and entrepreneurship.
Completing his MBA in 2017, Justin sought to gain insight to the business world that he didn’t get exposure to from a life in agriculture. He observed there needs to be greater prosperity beyond the unsustainable perpetual growth mindset, and that many solutions lie in the unobserved or unrecognised spaces of community. His aim is to demonstrate that traditional owners already have the solutions to our structural and social problems and supports the Uluru Statement from the Heart and a First Nations voice to parliament.
Board Member
Board Member
Joshua is an accomplished Senior Policy Officer in Local Government, a dedicated Director at Black Duck Foods, and an influential Board Member of Reconciliation NSW. With immense pride in his Wiradjuri heritage, Joshua is a devoted father residing on Darkinjung Country in the picturesque central coast of New South Wales.
Joshua goes above and beyond his professional duties, investing considerable time and effort into mentoring Aboriginal youth. He believes in providing invaluable on country experiences, facilitating opportunities for growth, and supporting elders in land management and bush regeneration projects. As a firm advocate for shared decision-making, co-design, and Aboriginal Economic Development, Joshua consistently strives to create a more inclusive and sustainable future.
A RegenAg and First Nations enterprises patron, Joshua is eagerly anticipating the launch of an innovative First Nations ReganAg project in the lower Hunter Valley in 2024. His vision for Gastronomic Conciliation, sustainable farming practices and commitment to empowering First Nations communities have positioned him as a driving force in this pioneering endeavour.
Joshua is an accomplished Senior Policy Officer in Local Government, a dedicated Director at Black Duck Foods, and an influential Board Member of Reconciliation NSW. With immense pride in his Wiradjuri heritage, Joshua is a devoted father residing on Darkinjung Country in the picturesque central coast of New South Wales.
Joshua goes above and beyond his professional duties, investing considerable time and effort into mentoring Aboriginal youth. He believes in providing invaluable on country experiences, facilitating opportunities for growth, and supporting elders in land management and bush regeneration projects. As a firm advocate for shared decision-making, co-design, and Aboriginal Economic Development, Joshua consistently strives to create a more inclusive and sustainable future.
A RegenAg and First Nations enterprises patron, Joshua is eagerly anticipating the launch of an innovative First Nations ReganAg project in the lower Hunter Valley in 2024. His vision for Gastronomic Conciliation, sustainable farming practices and commitment to empowering First Nations communities have positioned him as a driving force in this pioneering endeavour.
Our People
Our Team
Meet our team of change makers operating behind the scenes to bring the regeneration to life.
ATIC Project Coordinator and Industry Development Liaison
ATIC Project Coordinator and Industry Development Liaison
Erin is dedicated to bridging divides and fostering unity within our farming community. Raised by a broad acre farming father and a permaculture-inspired mother, she's inherited a deep appreciation for balance and inclusivity in agriculture. Erin is here to organise the ATIC project for success and create spaces where everyone feels heard and valued. With a natural sense of timing and a genuine ability to empathise with others, she's committed to driving positive change and cultivating a sense of belonging among all stakeholders.
Erin is dedicated to bridging divides and fostering unity within our farming community. Raised by a broad acre farming father and a permaculture-inspired mother, she's inherited a deep appreciation for balance and inclusivity in agriculture. Erin is here to organise the ATIC project for success and create spaces where everyone feels heard and valued. With a natural sense of timing and a genuine ability to empathise with others, she's committed to driving positive change and cultivating a sense of belonging among all stakeholders.
CEO
CEO
With the bush in her bones and business in her head, Jade Miles is a poly-jobist to the core. She’s a local food advocate and educator, business builder, food co-op founder, author, podcaster and regenerative heritage fruit farmer.
Together with her husband and three kids, Jade runs Black Barn Farm, a biodiverse orchard, nursery and workshop space in Northeast Victoria. She’s an active presence in the regenerative space, hosting school programs, permaculture and homesteading workshops while sitting on multiple boards – all in the name of reconnecting people to nature, food and a simpler existence.
Before landing at Sustainable Table, Jade ran her own business start-up consultancy for over a decade, worked as Industry Development Manager for the Regional Tourism Board and established the Beechworth Food Co-op for good measure. She brings this breadth of skills and relentless enthusiasm to her role at ST, where she joins the dots between Our Fund and incredible regenerative projects around the country to build capacity and expedite change.
“We all eat, and by celebrating our farmers and considering our choices we can make a profound difference to rural Australia, our health, our land and our culture.”
With the bush in her bones and business in her head, Jade Miles is a poly-jobist to the core. She’s a local food advocate and educator, business builder, food co-op founder, author, podcaster and regenerative heritage fruit farmer.
Together with her husband and three kids, Jade runs Black Barn Farm, a biodiverse orchard, nursery and workshop space in Northeast Victoria. She’s an active presence in the regenerative space, hosting school programs, permaculture and homesteading workshops while sitting on multiple boards – all in the name of reconnecting people to nature, food and a simpler existence.
Before landing at Sustainable Table, Jade ran her own business start-up consultancy for over a decade, worked as Industry Development Manager for the Regional Tourism Board and established the Beechworth Food Co-op for good measure. She brings this breadth of skills and relentless enthusiasm to her role at ST, where she joins the dots between Our Fund and incredible regenerative projects around the country to build capacity and expedite change.
“We all eat, and by celebrating our farmers and considering our choices we can make a profound difference to rural Australia, our health, our land and our culture.”
Operations & Projects Manager
Operations & Projects Manager
Jess Eddy is a degree-qualified nutritionist and passionate foodie who has spent much of the past decade working in Melbourne’s health and food industries. A former Sustainable Table volunteer, Jess has stepped into the Operations & Projects Coordinator role for the growing team, providing support for the day-to-day running of the organisation and fund.
Jess gets excited by food’s potential to create change, and the positive impact food can have on individuals, the community, and the environment. When she’s not at ST or running her side business, Jess loves to spend her time visiting one of Melbourne’s many cafes, restaurants and bars or her local farmers’ market.
Jess Eddy is a degree-qualified nutritionist and passionate foodie who has spent much of the past decade working in Melbourne’s health and food industries. A former Sustainable Table volunteer, Jess has stepped into the Operations & Projects Coordinator role for the growing team, providing support for the day-to-day running of the organisation and fund.
Jess gets excited by food’s potential to create change, and the positive impact food can have on individuals, the community, and the environment. When she’s not at ST or running her side business, Jess loves to spend her time visiting one of Melbourne’s many cafes, restaurants and bars or her local farmers’ market.
Business Operations Assistant
Business Operations Assistant
Jessie is a passionate advocate of food system transformation through agroecology and localised food systems. While she was completing a Master of Environment at Griffith University, she became immersed in research about how food sovereignty can address the complex social, political, economic and ecological barriers to climate change adaptation. During her studies, she joined the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) as General Coordinator, where she still works.
Jessie has joined Sustainable Table as Business Operations Assistant to help coordinate the organisation’s key projects and ST Fund. She’s excited about enabling farmer-led regeneration of Australia’s food system and is proud to be part of creating a sustainable food system. When she’s not working at ST or AFSA, Jessie spends her time running, reading and baking sweet treats.
Jessie is a passionate advocate of food system transformation through agroecology and localised food systems. While she was completing a Master of Environment at Griffith University, she became immersed in research about how food sovereignty can address the complex social, political, economic and ecological barriers to climate change adaptation. During her studies, she joined the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) as General Coordinator, where she still works.
Jessie has joined Sustainable Table as Business Operations Assistant to help coordinate the organisation’s key projects and ST Fund. She’s excited about enabling farmer-led regeneration of Australia’s food system and is proud to be part of creating a sustainable food system. When she’s not working at ST or AFSA, Jessie spends her time running, reading and baking sweet treats.
Industry Development Team Manager
Industry Development Team Manager
Jodi is a connector, facilitator and sustainability consultant, based on Wurundjeri Country in Melbourne’s Dandenong Ranges.
In her previous role as Program Manager, Ripe for Change (https://sustainabletable.org.au/fund-projects/), Jodi helped bring to life a place-based collaborative funding model that supported food system projects in south-east Melbourne, Victoria. What began in 2017 as a small community grants program, evolved into a powerful connector in the region and proved to be a successful funding model that has helped to shape where Sustainable Table is today. In her current position as Industry Development Manager, Jodi continues to connect, convene and support community leaders and innovators in Australia’s regenerative food and farming system. Seeing local, collaborative initiatives push the needle in a healthy, regenerative direction gives Jodi immense hope.
Jodi holds a Bachelor of Environmental Science (Honours) and more years’ experience within not-for-profit organisations, local and state government authorities, and academia than she cares to admit. Environmental sustainability challenges are her forte, with experience in sustainable food systems, integrated transport and land use planning, and urban water management.
Jodi is a connector, facilitator and sustainability consultant, based on Wurundjeri Country in Melbourne’s Dandenong Ranges.
In her previous role as Program Manager, Ripe for Change (https://sustainabletable.org.au/fund-projects/), Jodi helped bring to life a place-based collaborative funding model that supported food system projects in south-east Melbourne, Victoria. What began in 2017 as a small community grants program, evolved into a powerful connector in the region and proved to be a successful funding model that has helped to shape where Sustainable Table is today. In her current position as Industry Development Manager, Jodi continues to connect, convene and support community leaders and innovators in Australia’s regenerative food and farming system. Seeing local, collaborative initiatives push the needle in a healthy, regenerative direction gives Jodi immense hope.
Jodi holds a Bachelor of Environmental Science (Honours) and more years’ experience within not-for-profit organisations, local and state government authorities, and academia than she cares to admit. Environmental sustainability challenges are her forte, with experience in sustainable food systems, integrated transport and land use planning, and urban water management.
Industry Development Coordinator
Industry Development Coordinator
Kristie’s passion for regenerative agriculture stems from her love of growing food and cooking. Over the past 9 years, she has worked with regenerative food producers and retailers in broad roles that included operations, communications, planning and strategy, sales and account management.
Kristie is inspired by the opportunity for transformational change that regenerative farming represents and is on a mission to accelerate that change. Alongside her work at Sustainable Table, Kristie provides strategy and marketing support to food brands in the regenerative grain space.
Kristie’s passion for regenerative agriculture stems from her love of growing food and cooking. Over the past 9 years, she has worked with regenerative food producers and retailers in broad roles that included operations, communications, planning and strategy, sales and account management.
Kristie is inspired by the opportunity for transformational change that regenerative farming represents and is on a mission to accelerate that change. Alongside her work at Sustainable Table, Kristie provides strategy and marketing support to food brands in the regenerative grain space.
Industry Development Manager
Industry Development Manager
Kristy is a land steward, community connector and 5th generation farmer born at Yan Yan Gurt West, an award winning, carbon neutral sheep and agroforestry farm on Wadawurrung and Gadubanud Country in Victoria.
She holds a B. Agricultural Sciences and works in the education space as a Landcare project officer, Agricultural systems consultant and is part of the team co-managing her family farm where she runs educational tours on agriculture, agroforestry and landscape connection.
You’ll often find Kristy out and about working to support projects such as ‘Future food systems’ in Melbourne, advocating for the Otway Agroforestry Network, sitting on the Landcare Victoria members council, or diving the Otway’s coastline.
Kristy brings her experience from farming, travelling, finding mentors and deepening her understanding of agriculture, systems thinking, land management and people’s inherent connection to landscape to her role at ST. She feels that one of the greatest things we can do at this time, is for people to reconnect to our food source and remember our connection to the natural world.
Kristy is a land steward, community connector and 5th generation farmer born at Yan Yan Gurt West, an award winning, carbon neutral sheep and agroforestry farm on Wadawurrung and Gadubanud Country in Victoria.
She holds a B. Agricultural Sciences and works in the education space as a Landcare project officer, Agricultural systems consultant and is part of the team co-managing her family farm where she runs educational tours on agriculture, agroforestry and landscape connection.
You’ll often find Kristy out and about working to support projects such as ‘Future food systems’ in Melbourne, advocating for the Otway Agroforestry Network, sitting on the Landcare Victoria members council, or diving the Otway’s coastline.
Kristy brings her experience from farming, travelling, finding mentors and deepening her understanding of agriculture, systems thinking, land management and people’s inherent connection to landscape to her role at ST. She feels that one of the greatest things we can do at this time, is for people to reconnect to our food source and remember our connection to the natural world.
Digital Communications & Philanthropic Partnerships Coordinator
Digital Communications & Philanthropic Partnerships Coordinator
Liv McCrimmon is a marketing specialist, event curator and cook. She’s dedicated the last 10 years to sustainably focused businesses in the food and fashion industries across Melbourne and New York. With a love of story-telling, she eagerly seeks to engage and educate audiences in meaningful and impactful ways.
Beyond her role at ST, Liv spends her time by the beach or in the kitchen, alongside running an event curation company that celebrates sustainable, artisanal and local businesses and creators.
Liv McCrimmon is a marketing specialist, event curator and cook. She’s dedicated the last 10 years to sustainably focused businesses in the food and fashion industries across Melbourne and New York. With a love of story-telling, she eagerly seeks to engage and educate audiences in meaningful and impactful ways.
Beyond her role at ST, Liv spends her time by the beach or in the kitchen, alongside running an event curation company that celebrates sustainable, artisanal and local businesses and creators.
Communications Manager
Communications Manager
Megan lives and breathes sustainability and the majority of her work over the last 10 years has focused on leaving behind a more equitable and regenerative world than the one she was born into. She is an experienced educator, writer, researcher and sustainability consultant who loves to nerd out on all things systems change. Megan is really excited to use her storytelling skills to amplify the transformative work of folks in the regenerative agriculture industry.
In 2016, she walked 3500km across Southeast Asia as part of a project called Walk Sew Good, to learn from and share the stories of people creating fashion in positive and sustainable ways. Outside of her work with Sustainable Table, she runs an education social enterprise that connects young people with their impact and empowers them to be active citizens and change makers.
Megan lives and breathes sustainability and the majority of her work over the last 10 years has focused on leaving behind a more equitable and regenerative world than the one she was born into. She is an experienced educator, writer, researcher and sustainability consultant who loves to nerd out on all things systems change. Megan is really excited to use her storytelling skills to amplify the transformative work of folks in the regenerative agriculture industry.
In 2016, she walked 3500km across Southeast Asia as part of a project called Walk Sew Good, to learn from and share the stories of people creating fashion in positive and sustainable ways. Outside of her work with Sustainable Table, she runs an education social enterprise that connects young people with their impact and empowers them to be active citizens and change makers.
Finance & Business Manager
Finance & Business Manager
Sam is an experienced Chartered Accountant and graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors who brings a wealth of experience in finance and governance to the team.
Sam is passionate about using her skillset to create resilient and efficient processes and teams to conquer the global challenges we face. Building better food and farming systems requires a wide variety of skillsets, diversity of thought and problem solving skills. Sam takes pride in contributing to that work through her role as Financial Manager at Sustainable Table.
Sam is an experienced Chartered Accountant and graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors who brings a wealth of experience in finance and governance to the team.
Sam is passionate about using her skillset to create resilient and efficient processes and teams to conquer the global challenges we face. Building better food and farming systems requires a wide variety of skillsets, diversity of thought and problem solving skills. Sam takes pride in contributing to that work through her role as Financial Manager at Sustainable Table.
Investment Partnerships Manager
Investment Partnerships Manager
Tanya Massy is a writer and lifelong apprentice of farming who has worked across urban, rural and remote communities to reconnect people, food and country. (And before you ask, yep, Tanya is Charles Massy’s daughter. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.) Her academic background spans Community Development and Indigenous Studies, with a Masters in Agricultural Science.
Tanya Massy is a writer and lifelong apprentice of farming who has worked across urban, rural and remote communities to reconnect people, food and country. (And before you ask, yep, Tanya is Charles Massy’s daughter. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.) Her academic background spans Community Development and Indigenous Studies, with a Masters in Agricultural Science.
Co-founder and Board Chair
Co-founder and Board Chair
In her role as Executive Director of her Family Office, the Morris Group, Hayley leads the Group’s sustainability across their operations which span hospitality, tourism, brewing, aviation, and agriculture. Hayley also leads her family’s philanthropy and impact investments through the Morris Family Foundation with a focus on climate change and regenerative food systems.
Other than Sustainable Table, Hayley has founded several organisations including software business Impact Sustainability and strategic sustainability consultancy Rewild Agency. She has held various not-for-profit board roles including Australian Environmental Grantmakers Network, The Impact Club and The Next Economy.
In her role as Executive Director of her Family Office, the Morris Group, Hayley leads the Group’s sustainability across their operations which span hospitality, tourism, brewing, aviation, and agriculture. Hayley also leads her family’s philanthropy and impact investments through the Morris Family Foundation with a focus on climate change and regenerative food systems.
Other than Sustainable Table, Hayley has founded several organisations including software business Impact Sustainability and strategic sustainability consultancy Rewild Agency. She has held various not-for-profit board roles including Australian Environmental Grantmakers Network, The Impact Club and The Next Economy.
Co-founder
Co-founder
The belief that every dollar we spend is a vote for the type of food system and world we would like to be a part of, is what Sustainable Table was founded on and the inspiration Hayley and Cassie had to start something that brought joy, humour and great tasting seasonal food to tackle some pretty big environmental challenges.
During her 12 years at Sustainable Table, Cassie leveraged her background in marketing and communications to build an organisation, and life, around an ethos that places individual actions at the heart of building resilient communities, food systems and a world that respects and restores the natural environment.
Some career highlights from her time at Sustainable Table included writing and producing The Sustainable Table educational cookbook, which won Best Sustainable Food Book at the 2012 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards; launching Sustainable Table’s previous website; developing the Give a Fork! campaign and launching Mt Martha Farmers’ Market.
The belief that every dollar we spend is a vote for the type of food system and world we would like to be a part of, is what Sustainable Table was founded on and the inspiration Hayley and Cassie had to start something that brought joy, humour and great tasting seasonal food to tackle some pretty big environmental challenges.
During her 12 years at Sustainable Table, Cassie leveraged her background in marketing and communications to build an organisation, and life, around an ethos that places individual actions at the heart of building resilient communities, food systems and a world that respects and restores the natural environment.
Some career highlights from her time at Sustainable Table included writing and producing The Sustainable Table educational cookbook, which won Best Sustainable Food Book at the 2012 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards; launching Sustainable Table’s previous website; developing the Give a Fork! campaign and launching Mt Martha Farmers’ Market.
Our People
Our Advisors
We lean heavily on the vast knowledge and experience of our industry advisors. They inform who we fund and how we go about transforming farming, food and fibre systems.
Strategic Advisor
Strategic Advisor
Joshua is a Worimi man, farmer and academic, who shares the narration of Indigenous identity through agricultural truths in light of modern contexts.
Josh’s work seeks to connect traditional Aboriginal knowledge and history to current contexts, translating past wisdom and learning to future opportunities. His work combines the old and the new, weaving them together to develop new insights and findings.
He is undertaking higher degree research at Charles Sturt University, is the Indigenous Co-Chair of Reconciliation NSW and was recently recognised within the world’s top 50 young gastronomers.
He is an entrepreneur and business advisor, working predominantly in the Aboriginal cultural, agricultural and environmental spheres. He has worked with numerous of not for profits, businesses and the government to develop change and bring people on a journey of change.
Joshua is a Worimi man, farmer and academic, who shares the narration of Indigenous identity through agricultural truths in light of modern contexts.
Josh’s work seeks to connect traditional Aboriginal knowledge and history to current contexts, translating past wisdom and learning to future opportunities. His work combines the old and the new, weaving them together to develop new insights and findings.
He is undertaking higher degree research at Charles Sturt University, is the Indigenous Co-Chair of Reconciliation NSW and was recently recognised within the world’s top 50 young gastronomers.
He is an entrepreneur and business advisor, working predominantly in the Aboriginal cultural, agricultural and environmental spheres. He has worked with numerous of not for profits, businesses and the government to develop change and bring people on a journey of change.
Strategic Advisor
Strategic Advisor
Over the past 20 odd years Robert has been challenging and transforming the food and agricultural system in Australia. As a former organic dairy farmer and market gardener he has become known as a practical and hands on social entrepreneur working at the systems end of changing the way business can pivot away from the malaise the current food system works.
In 2004 he founded Food Connect, a dynamic multi-farmer food distribution enterprise with an innovative community-based distribution system. In 2009, the Food Connect Foundation was launched to increase the scope of the fair food movement internationally and across Australia.
Robert is a member of the national board of Australian Social Enterprise Advisory Group, co-founder of the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance, and a founding member on the Board of The global software organisation Open Food Network. He is a contributing author to Fair Food, published by University of Queensland Press.
In 2018, he co-founded the Food Connect Shed to raise over $2million with the Food Connect community to buy the warehouse they’d been renting for over 12 years, through an equity crowdfunding campaign.
Rob is a well known speaker in the Fair Food movement. He loves his blended family of four children, and his favourite foods are beer, butter and good bread.
Over the past 20 odd years Robert has been challenging and transforming the food and agricultural system in Australia. As a former organic dairy farmer and market gardener he has become known as a practical and hands on social entrepreneur working at the systems end of changing the way business can pivot away from the malaise the current food system works.
In 2004 he founded Food Connect, a dynamic multi-farmer food distribution enterprise with an innovative community-based distribution system. In 2009, the Food Connect Foundation was launched to increase the scope of the fair food movement internationally and across Australia.
Robert is a member of the national board of Australian Social Enterprise Advisory Group, co-founder of the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance, and a founding member on the Board of The global software organisation Open Food Network. He is a contributing author to Fair Food, published by University of Queensland Press.
In 2018, he co-founded the Food Connect Shed to raise over $2million with the Food Connect community to buy the warehouse they’d been renting for over 12 years, through an equity crowdfunding campaign.
Rob is a well known speaker in the Fair Food movement. He loves his blended family of four children, and his favourite foods are beer, butter and good bread.
Strategic Advisor
Strategic Advisor
When she’s not championing food system resilience and connection through her life’s work the Open Food Network, this ground-breaking and land-healing human, together with her partner Kirsten and their two kids, split their time between Violet Town and a Yurt at Pukawidgee, their regenerative farm in Warrenbaynee. Here they’re exploring and enacting a collaborative farm share model that has ecological restoration at its heart.
Serenity is a co-founder of Open Food Network, and a Director of both Open Food Foundation and Open Food Network Australia. Her work with OFN focuses on sector and enterprise development; advocacy, research and project development and implementation to expand regenerative agriculture in Australia and the values-based supply networks that undergird it.
Her breadth of food system knowledge, connection and experience is integral to shaping and guiding the work of the Sustainable Table Fund – gee whiz we’re lucky to have her.
When she’s not championing food system resilience and connection through her life’s work the Open Food Network, this ground-breaking and land-healing human, together with her partner Kirsten and their two kids, split their time between Violet Town and a Yurt at Pukawidgee, their regenerative farm in Warrenbaynee. Here they’re exploring and enacting a collaborative farm share model that has ecological restoration at its heart.
Serenity is a co-founder of Open Food Network, and a Director of both Open Food Foundation and Open Food Network Australia. Her work with OFN focuses on sector and enterprise development; advocacy, research and project development and implementation to expand regenerative agriculture in Australia and the values-based supply networks that undergird it.
Her breadth of food system knowledge, connection and experience is integral to shaping and guiding the work of the Sustainable Table Fund – gee whiz we’re lucky to have her.
Strategic Advisor
Strategic Advisor
Born into agriculture in the Upper Hunter Valley, NSW and having worked and travelled much of Australia and the globe, Justin now calls Western Australia home with his wife and teenage daughter. Justin brings decades of experience to focus on the necessary changes to our food and land use systems by managing the interface between Conservation, First Nations, and commercial agriculture. He co-founded and established RegenWA to provide support for practitioners of, and those interested in, regenerative agriculture, and has close ties with the farming community so he can effectively communicate their needs to different stakeholders.
Justin works with multiple NFPs, family offices, corporations and conservation organisations tackling wicked problems with blue ocean thinking and seeking solutions from well outside the box.Justin is one of Commonland’s West Australian partners (a Dutch-based global landscape restoration project enabler) to engage with the community and share the learnings and opportunities that regenerative agriculture offers. He is the Regenerative Ag advisor and Director of Impact Seed Partnerships (Impact Seed is WA’s peak capacity builder for impact investment and social enterprise development) working towards systems-change finance and entrepreneurship.
Completing his MBA in 2017, Justin sought to gain insight to the business world that he didn’t get exposure to from a life in agriculture. He observed there needs to be greater prosperity beyond the unsustainable perpetual growth mindset, and that many solutions lie in the unobserved or unrecognised spaces of community. His aim is to demonstrate that traditional owners already have the solutions to our structural and social problems and supports the Uluru Statement from the Heart and a First Nations voice to parliament.
Born into agriculture in the Upper Hunter Valley, NSW and having worked and travelled much of Australia and the globe, Justin now calls Western Australia home with his wife and teenage daughter. Justin brings decades of experience to focus on the necessary changes to our food and land use systems by managing the interface between Conservation, First Nations, and commercial agriculture. He co-founded and established RegenWA to provide support for practitioners of, and those interested in, regenerative agriculture, and has close ties with the farming community so he can effectively communicate their needs to different stakeholders.
Justin works with multiple NFPs, family offices, corporations and conservation organisations tackling wicked problems with blue ocean thinking and seeking solutions from well outside the box.Justin is one of Commonland’s West Australian partners (a Dutch-based global landscape restoration project enabler) to engage with the community and share the learnings and opportunities that regenerative agriculture offers. He is the Regenerative Ag advisor and Director of Impact Seed Partnerships (Impact Seed is WA’s peak capacity builder for impact investment and social enterprise development) working towards systems-change finance and entrepreneurship.
Completing his MBA in 2017, Justin sought to gain insight to the business world that he didn’t get exposure to from a life in agriculture. He observed there needs to be greater prosperity beyond the unsustainable perpetual growth mindset, and that many solutions lie in the unobserved or unrecognised spaces of community. His aim is to demonstrate that traditional owners already have the solutions to our structural and social problems and supports the Uluru Statement from the Heart and a First Nations voice to parliament.
Our People
Our Board
Made up of farming, finance and governance experts, our Board ensures we remain accountable, sustainable and grounded.
Co-founder and Board Chair
Co-founder and Board Chair
In her role as Executive Director of her Family Office, the Morris Group, Hayley leads the Group’s sustainability across their operations which span hospitality, tourism, brewing, aviation, and agriculture. Hayley also leads her family’s philanthropy and impact investments through the Morris Family Foundation with a focus on climate change and regenerative food systems.
Other than Sustainable Table, Hayley has founded several organisations including software business Impact Sustainability and strategic sustainability consultancy Rewild Agency. She has held various not-for-profit board roles including Australian Environmental Grantmakers Network, The Impact Club and The Next Economy.
In her role as Executive Director of her Family Office, the Morris Group, Hayley leads the Group’s sustainability across their operations which span hospitality, tourism, brewing, aviation, and agriculture. Hayley also leads her family’s philanthropy and impact investments through the Morris Family Foundation with a focus on climate change and regenerative food systems.
Other than Sustainable Table, Hayley has founded several organisations including software business Impact Sustainability and strategic sustainability consultancy Rewild Agency. She has held various not-for-profit board roles including Australian Environmental Grantmakers Network, The Impact Club and The Next Economy.
Board Member
Board Member
Lauren’s personal professional experience spans 20 years in the ‘corporate world’ within large organisations globally. She is the current Head of Sustainability Strategy at Republic of Everyone and has spent her career proving the business case for sustainability, or put more simply, making doing good, good for business. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business, a Masters in Sustainable Development and is currently a PHD candidate at UNSW Business School focusing on sustainability and innovation.
Personally she is a woman of many interests, Lauren is also a mum of two, unexpected adventurer, podcaster, a wanna be regenerative farmer and an advocate for living more slowly and sustainably.
Lauren’s personal professional experience spans 20 years in the ‘corporate world’ within large organisations globally. She is the current Head of Sustainability Strategy at Republic of Everyone and has spent her career proving the business case for sustainability, or put more simply, making doing good, good for business. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business, a Masters in Sustainable Development and is currently a PHD candidate at UNSW Business School focusing on sustainability and innovation.
Personally she is a woman of many interests, Lauren is also a mum of two, unexpected adventurer, podcaster, a wanna be regenerative farmer and an advocate for living more slowly and sustainably.
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Board Member
Philippa Hodson is a motivated and passionate foodie, mother and global citizen. She learned about Sustainable Table after buying our first cookbook way back when (which still commands pride of place on her shelf! Onya Pip) and has since become indispensable to our organisation.
Pip’s professional experience spans corporate remediation solutions, organic food manufacturing, fine dining, impact investing and grant making. She’s Executive Director and Chairman of the Board for The Garry White Foundation; was involved in our 2018 Victorian Community Grants program as a funder; and we’re thrilled that her skills and talents are now formally embedded within ST as a member of the Board.
As well as advocating for healthy and inclusive food systems, Pip advocates for daily horse rides (she’s a keen showjumper), weekend farmers’ market forays and crafting the most incredible wholefood recipes from scratch.
Philippa Hodson is a motivated and passionate foodie, mother and global citizen. She learned about Sustainable Table after buying our first cookbook way back when (which still commands pride of place on her shelf! Onya Pip) and has since become indispensable to our organisation.
Pip’s professional experience spans corporate remediation solutions, organic food manufacturing, fine dining, impact investing and grant making. She’s Executive Director and Chairman of the Board for The Garry White Foundation; was involved in our 2018 Victorian Community Grants program as a funder; and we’re thrilled that her skills and talents are now formally embedded within ST as a member of the Board.
As well as advocating for healthy and inclusive food systems, Pip advocates for daily horse rides (she’s a keen showjumper), weekend farmers’ market forays and crafting the most incredible wholefood recipes from scratch.
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Board Member
Rebecca is an ecological farmer using the principles of Holistic Management to improve the biodiversity and well-being of her family’s farm in southern NSW. She is a former award-winning journalist working as a foreign Correspondent and across a range of ABC Radio and TV programs. In her philanthropic work, she seeks to help improve the way we manage our land, grow our food and share it.
Rebecca is an ecological farmer using the principles of Holistic Management to improve the biodiversity and well-being of her family’s farm in southern NSW. She is a former award-winning journalist working as a foreign Correspondent and across a range of ABC Radio and TV programs. In her philanthropic work, she seeks to help improve the way we manage our land, grow our food and share it.
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Board Member
Born into agriculture in the Upper Hunter Valley, NSW and having worked and travelled much of Australia and the globe, Justin now calls Western Australia home with his wife and teenage daughter. Justin brings decades of experience to focus on the necessary changes to our food and land use systems by managing the interface between Conservation, First Nations, and commercial agriculture. He co-founded and established RegenWA to provide support for practitioners of, and those interested in, regenerative agriculture, and has close ties with the farming community so he can effectively communicate their needs to different stakeholders.
Justin works with multiple NFPs, family offices, corporations and conservation organisations tackling wicked problems with blue ocean thinking and seeking solutions from well outside the box.Justin is one of Commonland’s West Australian partners (a Dutch-based global landscape restoration project enabler) to engage with the community and share the learnings and opportunities that regenerative agriculture offers. He is the Regenerative Ag advisor and Director of Impact Seed Partnerships (Impact Seed is WA’s peak capacity builder for impact investment and social enterprise development) working towards systems-change finance and entrepreneurship.
Completing his MBA in 2017, Justin sought to gain insight to the business world that he didn’t get exposure to from a life in agriculture. He observed there needs to be greater prosperity beyond the unsustainable perpetual growth mindset, and that many solutions lie in the unobserved or unrecognised spaces of community. His aim is to demonstrate that traditional owners already have the solutions to our structural and social problems and supports the Uluru Statement from the Heart and a First Nations voice to parliament.
Born into agriculture in the Upper Hunter Valley, NSW and having worked and travelled much of Australia and the globe, Justin now calls Western Australia home with his wife and teenage daughter. Justin brings decades of experience to focus on the necessary changes to our food and land use systems by managing the interface between Conservation, First Nations, and commercial agriculture. He co-founded and established RegenWA to provide support for practitioners of, and those interested in, regenerative agriculture, and has close ties with the farming community so he can effectively communicate their needs to different stakeholders.
Justin works with multiple NFPs, family offices, corporations and conservation organisations tackling wicked problems with blue ocean thinking and seeking solutions from well outside the box.Justin is one of Commonland’s West Australian partners (a Dutch-based global landscape restoration project enabler) to engage with the community and share the learnings and opportunities that regenerative agriculture offers. He is the Regenerative Ag advisor and Director of Impact Seed Partnerships (Impact Seed is WA’s peak capacity builder for impact investment and social enterprise development) working towards systems-change finance and entrepreneurship.
Completing his MBA in 2017, Justin sought to gain insight to the business world that he didn’t get exposure to from a life in agriculture. He observed there needs to be greater prosperity beyond the unsustainable perpetual growth mindset, and that many solutions lie in the unobserved or unrecognised spaces of community. His aim is to demonstrate that traditional owners already have the solutions to our structural and social problems and supports the Uluru Statement from the Heart and a First Nations voice to parliament.
Board Member
Board Member
Joshua is an accomplished Senior Policy Officer in Local Government, a dedicated Director at Black Duck Foods, and an influential Board Member of Reconciliation NSW. With immense pride in his Wiradjuri heritage, Joshua is a devoted father residing on Darkinjung Country in the picturesque central coast of New South Wales.
Joshua goes above and beyond his professional duties, investing considerable time and effort into mentoring Aboriginal youth. He believes in providing invaluable on country experiences, facilitating opportunities for growth, and supporting elders in land management and bush regeneration projects. As a firm advocate for shared decision-making, co-design, and Aboriginal Economic Development, Joshua consistently strives to create a more inclusive and sustainable future.
A RegenAg and First Nations enterprises patron, Joshua is eagerly anticipating the launch of an innovative First Nations ReganAg project in the lower Hunter Valley in 2024. His vision for Gastronomic Conciliation, sustainable farming practices and commitment to empowering First Nations communities have positioned him as a driving force in this pioneering endeavour.
Joshua is an accomplished Senior Policy Officer in Local Government, a dedicated Director at Black Duck Foods, and an influential Board Member of Reconciliation NSW. With immense pride in his Wiradjuri heritage, Joshua is a devoted father residing on Darkinjung Country in the picturesque central coast of New South Wales.
Joshua goes above and beyond his professional duties, investing considerable time and effort into mentoring Aboriginal youth. He believes in providing invaluable on country experiences, facilitating opportunities for growth, and supporting elders in land management and bush regeneration projects. As a firm advocate for shared decision-making, co-design, and Aboriginal Economic Development, Joshua consistently strives to create a more inclusive and sustainable future.
A RegenAg and First Nations enterprises patron, Joshua is eagerly anticipating the launch of an innovative First Nations ReganAg project in the lower Hunter Valley in 2024. His vision for Gastronomic Conciliation, sustainable farming practices and commitment to empowering First Nations communities have positioned him as a driving force in this pioneering endeavour.
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