GROUNDED Live
GROUNDED Festival is a cross between a farming conference and a food 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.
With multiple stages running concurrently, 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.
Each year we record presentations and make them available, free for all, as a podcast called GROUNDED Live. We hope you enjoy the conversations.
GROUNDED Live
GROUNDED Live - 2025: Joshua Gilbert - Unpacking Australia’s Agricultural Identity
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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 on agriculture, identity, culture and the future of farming felt too important to miss. So we brought him across to Western Australia and invited him to open Day Two of the festival with a special in-conversation session.
To deepen the discussion, we paired Josh with Laura Bailey, farmer and founder of Margaret River Organic Farmer. Together, they explore the intersections of Indigenous knowledge, regenerative agriculture, finance, climate, culture and the shifting story of who we are as land stewards in Australia.
It’s insightful, generous and wide-ranging — a conversation that bridges ideas, lived experience and the future we’re all growing toward.
Settle in and enjoy this special session with Josh Gilbert and Laura Bailey on GROUNDED Live.
GROUNDED Festival is a cross between a farming conference and a food festival, held on a different farm each year. Every festival is unique, celebrating the people, landscapes and food of its host region through an inspiring line-up of speakers, local producers and hands-on learning.
With multiple stages running concurrently, GROUNDED brings together science and technology, ancient wisdom and fresh thinking. It 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.
Each year, we record many of the presentations and make them freely available as the GROUNDED Live podcast. We hope you enjoy the conversations.
Thanks for listening, and if you enjoy this episode, we'd love to welcome you to a future GROUNDED Festival.