2021 Regenerate Speakers
Weaving Water, Land, and PeopleReginaldo Haslett-Marroquin
Find this speaker online
Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin began working on economic development projects with indigenous Guatemalan communities in 1988, served as a consultant for the United Nations Development Program’s Bureau for Latin America, and as an advisor to the World Council of Indigenous Peoples, and co-founded the Fair-Trade Federation in 1994 and founded Peace Coffee in 1995. Before coming to the U.S. in 1992, Regi worked with artisan communities across Guatemala and built fair trade networks in Europe, the U.S., and Canada.
Haslett-Marroquin was named one of the Twin Cities International Citizens of the Year in 1996. In 2008 he received both the Northfield and College City and Southern-MN District Service to Mankind awards. He has served on numerous non-profit boards, received one of the prestigious lifetime Ashoka Fellowships and recently joined the MOSES board of directors.
Haslett-Marroquin is an owner-founder of Regeneration Farms LLC, Founder, and President of the Regenerative Agriculture Alliance, a father of three, husband, and farmer in the Northfield, Minnesota area.
His current focus is the scaling up of the Tree-Range(R) regenerative poultry system. To this end, he is building an online training platform, hands-on learning on multiple farms, regional producer pools, and layered infrastructure to lay the foundation of the national infrastructure and support systems needed to achieve the RAA’s vision of “making regenerative poultry the norm.”
Workshop