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 & Blythe Calnan - Who’s Minding the Farm?
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In this episode of GROUNDED Live, we share another unedited session recorded at GROUNDED Festival 2025, on farm in Bridgetown, Western Australia.
This conversation brings together two thoughtful, sharp and deeply engaged young voices in regenerative agriculture: Josh Gilbert and Blythe Calnan.
Josh Gilbert is a Worimi man from New South Wales — a farmer, author and advocate working at the intersection of Indigenous knowledge, culture and contemporary agriculture. His work asks big questions about identity, stewardship and what it means to care for land in Australia today.
Blythe Calnan may be familiar to some through Muster Dogs and her dog Banksi, but beneath that is a deeply curious thinker engaged with soil health, ecological integrity and regenerative farming systems. Blythe brings insight, honesty and a willingness to sit with complexity.
This session took place at the end of Day One at GROUNDED 2025, when minds were full and energy was high. Rather than close with a tidy answer, we invited Josh and Blythe to throw a few big ideas into the air and see where they landed — asking one central question: Who’s minding the farm?
The result is an open, reflective and sometimes challenging conversation about responsibility, succession, culture, care and the future of farming — told through the lens of the next generation.
Settle in and enjoy this session with Josh Gilbert and Blythe Calnan 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.