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Notes from the field and from the team.

Raw materials and the regions they grow in, how we work, the technology behind Finches, and the people building it.

Also from Finches The First Mile Webcast Interviews on sourcing decisions under uncertainty. Watch the series

Catharina van Delden 10/13/26 Catharina van Delden 10/13/26

Water always moves from wet to dry: crunchy snacks and nut sourcing

Mondelez built its Dairy Milk Biscoff bar to keep water away from the biscuit. The almonds in a snack took on their water earlier, on the orchard floor in August, and a moisture certificate can’t tell you where that water has been.

Catharina van Delden 9/11/26 Catharina van Delden 9/11/26

You can’t put flowers back on a tree

Peru’s mango harvest starts in the first week of October, and how much comes off the trees was settled in July by night temperatures over the Pacific. What the flowering counts actually say, why the two men reporting them do not agree, and what happened the last time this ocean ran warm.