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: Jill Clapperton - Demystifying the Rhizosphere
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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 them in ways that are clear, practical and immediately useful.
In this talk, Jill demystifies the rhizosphere — the critically important zone around plant roots where soil biology, plant exudates and microbial life interact. It’s a place where chemistry, biology and ecology collide, and where many of the decisions that shape plant health, nutrient cycling and resilience are made.
Grounded in science but delivered with warmth and clarity, Jill’s session helps bridge the gap between what’s happening underground and what farmers see above it. While some of Jill’s field-based discussions couldn’t be captured in audio, this presentation offers a powerful foundation for understanding the plant–soil relationship at the heart of regenerative farming.
Settle in and enjoy this session with Jill Clapperton 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.