Jamie Loveday is Food Lab Sydney’s Program Manager. 

He manages its operations, facilitates the programs, and supports the growth and future direction of the incubator in collaboration with the rest of the team since 2019.

Jamie started his career as a farmhand for permaculture and regenerative farmers across rural Cambodia while gathering information for his research thesis on food entrepreneurship and sustainable development after completing a Bachelor of Commerce (Hns Class I) at the University of Sydney.

FoodLab Sydney is a not-for-profit food business incubator inspired by the original FoodLab model in Detroit, “a globally recognised intervention in addressing food security, social justice, food justice, and grassroots food entrepreneurship.”

Foodlab’s goal is to empower food entrepreneurs and community-shakers with the tools to create a fairer, more sustainable food system in Sydney and beyond.

And from our conversation with Jamie, they are certainly on the right track! 

We thoroughly enjoyed learning about Jamie growing up in rural Australia and the shock that represented coming to Sydney where he no longer was able to grow his own food as he was accustomed to doing back home. 

We also talked about:

• The issues/pain points with the existing food system in Sydney that FoodLab wanted to address?
• The need for budding food entrepreneurs to have the support and know-how of an incubator like Foodlab…
•  The unique and distinctive focus on equity, diversity, and multiculturalism of Foodlab Sydney. 
•  What are food systems? 
• What is food justice and what are some ways everyone can start thinking about helping to fight food inequality?
•  Foodlab’s success stories
•  What does a resilient and nourishing food future look like for Jamie Loveday? 
• Foodlab’s support to hospitality business through the pandemic
• What individual choices can we all make to be more sustainable at a micro level? 
• Foraging, spearfishing and a lot more! 

Find out more details and resources on our website!