Grow Your Impact - Invest in Nature
providing the resources and relationships for food and investment security
Building the trusted bridges and pathways that connect those who grow our food and build the fabric of our food system, to those who want to gain food system literacy and support the compounding benefits of a healthy food system. With the help of others, including global agricultural consultants, farmers, fisherman, scientists, artists, leaders in ecological credit and energy markets, project developers,
health leadership and climate and agri tech developers;
I can provide end to end understanding.
From investing in healthy soil, to how we approach healthy diets and secure our biodiverse surroundings.
It is past time to bring our attention to the generations that follow ours, and securing their future. Bridging the gap of support for both our farmers and ourselves, relies on trusted relationships and collaborative actions that support our collective health and the biodiversity of nature that provides this for us. My focus is on creating pathways of opportunity to support those that provide food, fiber, restore coastal and ocean systems, restore biodiverse regions, regenerate soil, and consistently innovate to avoid climate risks - they are key to nature, food, water and health security. These producers are historically qualified and situated to regenerate and grow the value of land, water and drive natural capital. For individuals, family offices, investors, I am looking forward to helping you understand and connect you to the ground, to the sustainable systems that drive your health, your community health - there is no better investment.
About Harriette Brainard
Harriette Brainard has been a pioneer of the relationship between planetary and human health, with over 45 years of personal and professional experience. She has developed an extensive global and trusted network that spans economies and sectors, policy makers, farmers, investors, business leaders, community leaders and ranchers. She is now focusing her energies to Invest Earth - supporting and promoting investment in farming, food systems, health and biodiversity.
She has developed trusted relationships across the food/health/natural capital sectors from years of work and her decades long literacy on food systems, climate, economic and environmental understanding, and the relationship between food and health.
Harriette has shifted her attention to bridge the gap connecting finance/ investment to food systems through her personal and professional experience and deep understanding of food systems, human health, planetary health, consumer literacy, climate, soil/water and the producers (farmers, ranchers and their networks).
Harriette is a consultant, often working with other colleagues and expertise to assist. Much of her work focuses on business development and investment as her extensive network is a key advantage. She is on the Board for Impakt IQ, a first of its kind platform/tool to advance the true valuation of companies intangible assets which is 70% to 90% of value, this includes risk and sustainable practices; and has joined the team at Suomi Partners, a Vancouver based group with strong credit experience focused on advancing global carbon/ nature credit markets. She is also director of sustainability at Grow United, a global decentralized blockchain finance system for Agriculture and health built as a primary blockchain based on real world assets. Grow has also built additional value through a nourish marketplace and transparency.
Harriette was most recently the Director of Communications, also operations and partnership/investor development, for a start up in the MRV space called Soil in Formation, (SIF) which developed groundbreaking applied biotech technology to the soil to assess soil health metrics in real time.
She is a member of the World Link/Nourish team in CA, collaborating across sectors for a better CA food/health system. She is on the Food and Innovation council for the Friedman School at Tufts. She has also joined the board of Food+Planet a group focused on the intersections of nutrition, food systems and health.
Harriette spent a great deal of her career as an educator, coach and innovator, she was co-founder of Youth Unite supporting global youth leadership. She is a certified sustainability consultant, educational consultant and studied ecological economics; a journalist, international speaker, and a serial entrepreneur, launching a farm to table restaurant- (Harriette’s), a regional outdoor magazine in VT, first head of development for Foundation Academies, and several nonprofit development programs. Harriette was a founding associate with North Star Transitions (UK), founding board member of C-Change Conversations (US), and a member of woman’s leadership group – Pleiades. She has advised multiple transformative initiatives both in the US and globally. She has a global trusted network that is the critical strength she brings to her work focused on nature restoration, food systems, human health and generational futures.
Harriette is a single mother of four children and six grandchildren.
Harriette is bringing her extensive personal and work experience, global and trusted relationships and networks of shared expertise, to assist her in developing this work - to share these understandings to the investment community. Stay tuned as she and colleagues look to launch learning journeys in 2026.
