“Women in Food and Farming” is a group of professional women in food, agriculture, and the land-based industries at all stages of their careers, who get together to discuss business issues, support each other via mentorship and advice, and help generate networks of contacts that might be useful to themselves and their businesses.

Founded in 2011 by Christine Tacon CBE, the group started back in 2011 with just five women and has now grown to over 500 members. Christine is known to many as the first Grocery Code Adjudicator and head of the Co-op’s farming business, she has just been appointed Chair of Assured Food Standards which operates the Red Tractor Assurance scheme amongst other roles.

Beanstalk is very proud to offer our extensive platforms to allow Women in Food and Farming to continue their conversation and debate and to encourage new members ongoing to join them, be that on a virtual Broadcast basis.

In the November broadcast, we welcome guest speaker Jan England of England Marketing. They are a leading market research agency, specialising in research in the food, agriculture and environment sectors. They are also Company Partners of the Market Research Society and run The Research Hub, a facility for their clients to research, explore, develop and learn. On site they undertake product evaluation, taste testing and immersive research. They are also developing capabilities in biometric testing with Anglia Ruskin University.