How a DJ Became an Unlikely Champion for Green Farming Push

Grammy-award-nominated musician and award-winning farmer are careers that aren’t typically synonymous.

But Andy Cato straddles that line. He does around 40 gigs a year as half of DJ duo Groove Armada, but he’s also a farmer who was knighted in France and is one of the UK’s most prominent voices calling for an overhaul of how the world produces its food.

Over the past six years, he built a network of more than 100 farmers in the UK and France to grow wheat using regenerative farming methods. He’s also convinced some of the UK’s biggest retailers and restaurant chains to ...