GROUNDED Live - 2025: Joshua Gilbert - Unpacking Australia’s Agricultural Identity

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 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.