Clare Buchanan

Hello!

I am a Canadian born Kiwi who holds a B. Sci in Environmental Science, with a focus on Biodiversity and Conservation, from McGill University. I moved to New Zealand in 2014 to help my family’s farming business, Align Farms, meet the environmental compliance imposed by Canterbury’s Land and Water Regional Plan. After that was complete, I worked as a Farm Environmental Consultant for 5 years, as well as being the Demonstration Manager at Lincoln University Dairy Farm for 1.5 years before coming back to work for Align to lead a regenerative agriculture trial in August 2020. I am passionate about providing solutions to farmers to meet their environmental goals and this is part of why we make all our regenerative trial data and learnings publicly available on our website.

 One policy change I’d like to see: I would like the government to remove all licensing and barriers for growing and selling industrial hemp and its by-products.

If I could choose one superpower: to make everyone intrinsically prioritise the planet over profits