GROUNDED Live - 2025: Will Bignell - Getting 80% of the Result for 20% of the Effort

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 sheep — work that has significant implications for animal health, human nutrition and on-farm profitability.

Will also runs a drone and precision-ag business, using cutting-edge technology to monitor landscapes, understand soils and unlock smarter, more efficient ways of working with the land. At the heart of his approach is a clear belief: farming must increase yields while maintaining — or improving — the health of soil and country, and farmers must be able to make a decent living doing it.

Equal parts practical, scientific and forward-thinking, Will’s session offers a grounded look at how tradition and innovation can work hand-in-hand to shape the future of farming.

Settle in and enjoy Will Bignell on GROUNDED Live.

GROUNDED Festival is a cross between a food festival, a farming conference and a field day. It combines science and technology with ancient wisdom, provides a respectful place for lively discussion, an audience as interesting as the speakers and an excellent menu of local food, drinks and music, all on a beautiful, regeneratively-managed farm.

GROUNDED is also Australia's only annual, roaming food and farming festival, held in a different farm location every year, so each festival is a unique, unmissable event celebrating local expertise and culture with an inspiring line up of speakers.

In 2026, with the support of the local Upper Barwon and Central Otway Landcare Networks, following successful festivals in Tasmania and Western Australia, GROUNDED FESTIVAL will be held at leading regenerative farm, Yan Yan Gurt West, in the Victorian Otway Ranges, two hours from Melbourne in an area renowned for regenerative agroforestry, tourism, local hospitality and great food and wine.

Tickets are on sale now - head to the GROUNDED website for information on speakers, the location, and to secure your spot today.