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: Mark Tupman - Developing High Performance Living Soils
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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 extraordinary range of landscapes — from market gardens to broadacre systems to holistic land management projects.
After sharing lunch with him a few years back and hearing the depth of his knowledge first-hand, we knew that when GROUNDED came to Western Australia, we had to bring him along.
In this session, Mark explores how to develop high-performance living soils — what drives soil function, how biology underpins productivity, and the practical principles he uses to help farmers build vibrant, resilient, nutrient-rich soils across different environments.
It’s clear, practical and deeply grounded in real-world experience from someone who spends his life working with soil and the people who steward it.
Settle in and enjoy Mark Tupman 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.