GROUNDED Live - 2025: Carolyn Hall - Water in Landscapes: It Doesn't Stop At The Fenceline

In this episode of GROUNDED Live, we share another unedited presentation recorded at GROUNDED Festival 2025, on farm in Bridgetown, Western Australia.

When you’re managing land or running a farm, it can be easy to think your responsibility ends at the fence line. In many ways, that’s true — but when it comes to water, the story is much bigger.

This session features Carolyn Hall, CEO of the Mulloon Institute, an organisation at the forefront of landscape-scale water restoration in Australia. Based near Bungendore, just outside Canberra, the Mulloon Institute has led nationally recognised work demonstrating how repairing natural water cycles can restore creeks, recharge groundwater, reduce erosion and improve both farm productivity and ecosystem health.

In this talk, Carolyn explores the idea that water doesn’t stop at the fence line. She shares how catchments function as connected systems, why collaboration across properties matters, and what’s possible when landholders work together to slow, spread and sink water back into the landscape.

It’s a compelling reminder that healthy farms depend on healthy catchments — and that caring for water is one of the most powerful things we can do for the future of land, agriculture and communities.

Settle in and enjoy this session with Carolyn Hall 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.