In this week’s episode, we catch up with Sonja Vreugdenhil - A Farm Systems Technician at Leaft Foods. 

Sonja grew up about an hour south of Dunedin and originally headed to university to study PE. After a couple of years, she decided this wasn't the exact direction she wanted to go in and changed her direction to study agriculture at Lincoln University. 

After university, Sonja joined the Foundation of Arable Research in their graduate programme where she was involved in numerous small seed and cereal trials. Last year she joined the Leaft Foods team and she hasn’t looked back. 

Leaft Foods have recognised that hidden in the leaves of lucerne is an abundant source of high quality natural protein. Extracting protein from lucerne leaves using their paddock to product process will be low impact and efficient, making it a great option for protecting our environment. 

It’s a real watch this space story, and I hope you are as captivated by it as I am. Sonja is an incredibly passionate individual in both her career and life outside of work. She is one of those people who gives everything their absolute all! 

I hope you enjoying to such an enthusiastic young women in our agricultural industry!

If you would like to chat to Sonja about anything we talk about on todays episode, you can find her on Instagram @sonja_renee_v or flick her an email at sonja.vreugdenhil@leaftfoods.com.

Enjoy!
Mel x