Abi Aspen
2022
Abi Aspen is a bioengineer, farmer and miller.
She began her career as the first cultivated meat technical researcher in the UK, before seeing holes in the technology and her food knowledge she swapped lab grown meat for fields of wheat.
She then spent time at Stone Barns and Blue Hill learning to be a farmer, then landed back in the UK with the beautiful family at Weston Park Farm. Her next stop was to Duchess Farms, where she held the position of head of grains, growing and milling non-commodity crops.
Knowing in the back of her mind she wanted to team good farming with sustainable biotech, in 2021 she co-founded and took the position of CTO at Food Squared, who upcycle food and drink manufacturing byproducts into new ingredients.
Alongside her partner in crime Sadhbh Moore she also co-founded The Sustainable Food Story’ a eco-inspired roving food experience. After appearing on ‘My Million Pound Menu’ and being shortlisted for a YBF award, they released their first book in April 2022 ‘Sustainable Kitchen’.
My Sessions
Rise of Real Bread
Henrietta Inman
Karen O’Donoghue
Safia Shakarchi
Abi Aspen
Wing Mon Cheung
Join us for an all female line-up of bakers and heritage grain-growers taking real bread to the masses, and getting more diversity into our bread and our guts. Hear how they’re using local, regeneratively grown grains to produce food that nourishes their community. As more bakers and food citizens get behind the new grains movement […]