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In this episode of GROUNDED Live, we share another unedited session recorded at GROUNDED Festival 2025, on farm in Bridgetown, Western Australia. There’s a lot of conversation in agriculture about carbon — carbon neutral, carbon negative, carbon stored in soils and plants. Farmers are doing extraordinary work managing landscapes to sequester carbon and restore ecological function. But as this sess...

In this episode of GROUNDED Live, we share another unedited presentation recorded at GROUNDED Festival 2025, on farm in Bridgetown, Western Australia. Across Australia, one issue comes up again and again for small and medium-sized producers: access to livestock processing. Without local abattoirs and flexible processing options, family farms face real limits on how they manage animals and land — a...

In this episode of GROUNDED Live, we share another unedited session recorded at GROUNDED Festival 2025, on farm in Bridgetown, Western Australia. This session is presented by Matthew Evans — GROUNDED founder and director, farmer, chef, author and host of the GROUNDED Live podcast. For a long time, soil was treated as little more than a growing medium — a place to hold plants upright while inputs d...

In this episode of GROUNDED Live, we share another unedited session recorded at GROUNDED Festival 2025, on farm in Bridgetown, Western Australia. One of the things we love most at GROUNDED is storytelling — especially when farmers are given space to share the real, lived journeys behind their farms. This session features Jeff Pow and Michelle McManus, who joined us fresh from a rare holiday and st...

In this episode of GROUNDED Live, we share another unedited session recorded at GROUNDED Festival 2025, on farm in Bridgetown, Western Australia. When we think about farms, we often picture family operations passed carefully from one generation to the next — knowledge, land and stories carried forward over decades. It’s a powerful idea. But it also raises one of the most complex and emotionally ch...

In this episode of GROUNDED Live, we share another unedited presentation recorded at GROUNDED Festival 2025, on farm in Bridgetown, Western Australia. When you’re managing land or running a farm, it can be easy to think your responsibility ends at the fence line. In many ways, that’s true — but when it comes to water, the story is much bigger. This session features Carolyn Hall, CEO of the Mulloon...

In this episode of GROUNDED Live, we share another unedited presentation recorded at GROUNDED Festival 2025, on farm in Bridgetown, Western Australia. This session features Dr Jill Clapperton, Principal Scientist and CEO of Rhizoterra Inc., and one of our international speakers joining us from North America. Jill has a rare gift: the ability to take deeply complex biological systems and explain th...

In this episode of GROUNDED Live, we share another unedited session recorded on site at GROUNDED Festival 2025, on farm in Bridgetown, Western Australia. This session features Joel Williams, a globally respected agronomist and educator known for his ability to take complex plant science and translate it into practical, farmer-focused insight. Joel has spoken at leading regenerative and agricultura...

In this episode of GROUNDED Live, we share another unedited session recorded at GROUNDED Festival 2025, on farm in Bridgetown, Western Australia. This conversation brings together two thoughtful, sharp and deeply engaged young voices in regenerative agriculture: Josh Gilbert and Blythe Calnan. Josh Gilbert is a Worimi man from New South Wales — a farmer, author and advocate working at the intersec...

 In this episode of GROUNDED Live, we share another unedited presentation recorded at GROUNDED Festival 2025, on farm in Bridgetown, Western Australia.  One of the great joys of GROUNDED is discovering speakers who make you fall in love with subjects you never expected to find interesting — or even knew existed. Professor David Watson is one of those people.  David is an ecologist, biodiversity ch...

In this episode of GROUNDED Live , we close out the GROUNDED Festival 2025 program with a very special, very free-wheeling session. If you’ve been to the last couple of GROUNDED festivals — in Tasmania or WA — you’ll already know Dan Kittredge . Dan pioneered the modern concept of nutrient density , asking the deceptively simple question: What’s actually in our food, and does it matter? His work h...

There’s a persistent belief in Australia — and around the world — that farming and nature sit on opposite sides of a divide. That ecological harmony belongs “out there” in national parks, while food production happens elsewhere. But the truth is far more interesting, and far more hopeful. In this session, we hear from Professor David Watson , an ecologist whose work spans birds, mistletoe, woodlan...

In this episode of GROUNDED Live, we bring you another unedited session recorded at GROUNDED Festival 2025 on farm in Bridgetown, Western Australia. Every now and then you meet someone and think, How have I not come across this person sooner? For many of us at GROUNDED, Mark Tupman was one of those people. A researcher, consultant and educator in biological production, Mark works across an extraor...

In this episode of GROUNDED Live , we continue sharing unedited sessions recorded at GROUNDED Festival 2025 on farm in Bridgetown, Western Australia. Across Australia, some of the deepest knowledge about landscapes is held by elders — farmers and First Nations people whose lived experience stretches across decades and across Country. Too often, that wisdom isn’t given a platform. So when we learne...

In this episode of GROUNDED Live, we share another unedited session from GROUNDED Festival 2025, recorded on farm in Bridgetown, Western Australia. A question that arises often in Australian agriculture is: How can farmers meaningfully engage with First Nations people — and what does genuine collaboration actually look like? For this session, we wanted to move beyond theory and bring together peop...

In this episode of GROUNDED Live , we return to the unedited sessions recorded at GROUNDED Festival 2025 on farm in Bridgetown, Western Australia. While putting together the program, one new release immediately stood out: Australia’s Agricultural Identity , a powerful and thought-provoking book by Josh Gilbert — a Worimi man, farmer, author and advocate from the Hunter Valley, NSW. His perspective...

In this episode of GROUNDED Live , we bring you another presentation from GROUNDED Festival 2025 , recorded at Galloway Springs in Bridgetown, Western Australia. This session features Will Bignell , a seventh-generation sheep farmer and cropper from Bothwell in Tasmania’s Central Highlands. Alongside running his family farm, Will is an agricultural scientist specialising in improving omega-3 fats...

In this episode of GROUNDED Live , we feature  David Pollock , a rangelands farmer from Western Australia - and one of the most refreshingly honest voices in Australian agriculture. The bio he sent us in the lead up to the event is worth repeating here:  “Despite his laziness and general lack of knowledge, David took over the degraded family station because it seemed like his best bet for making a...

One of the things we love at GROUNDED is shining a light on the writers, thinkers and storytellers who help shape the way we understand farming, food and community. Today’s presentation features  Jade Miles — a barefooted force of nature and one of Australia’s most vital voices in the food movement. Jade is a food advocate, educator, podcaster, author and CEO of Sustainable Table , based at Blackb...

In this episode of GROUNDED Live , we continue sharing the unedited presentations recorded at GROUNDED Festival 2025 on farm in Bridgetown, Western Australia. This session features Kylie Woodham , founder of Magnus Farm in County Tipperary — a pioneering regenerative farm supplying produce across Ireland. Since establishing the farm in 2017, Kylie has grown Magnus Farm into a celebrated producer w...

In this episode of GROUNDED Live , we bring you another unedited presentation recorded at GROUNDED Festival 2025 in Bridgetown, Western Australia. This session features Dan Kittredge , an American organic farmer with more than 30 years’ experience and the founder and executive director of the Bionutrient Food Association (BFA) — a nonprofit dedicated to improving food quality from the soil up. Wid...

Welcome to the very first episode of GROUNDED Live , hosted by farmer, author and festival co-founder Matthew Evans . This series shares the unedited presentations from GROUNDED Festival 2025 , recorded live from Galloway Springs in Bridgetown, Western Australia. In this first episode, we hear from Professor Lyn Abbott , Emeritus Professor at the University of Western Australia and one of the coun...