GROUNDED Live
GROUNDED Festival brings together international and local voices shaping the future of farming, food systems and rural resilience. GROUNDED Live is the next best thing to being there. Each episode brings powerful conversations from the paddock to you, challenging, inspiring and grounded in hope.
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Episodes
24 episodes
GROUNDED Live - 2025: Michelle McManus & Terry McCosker - Fixing Farmland
In this final episode recorded at GROUNDED Festival 2025, we share an unedited session captured at the close of two full days of talks, workshops and on-farm learning in Bridgetown, Western Australia.As the festival drew to a close, we w...
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Season 1
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Episode 21
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48:00
GROUNDED Live - 2025: Mitchell East & Will Grothum - There Is No Away: Waste Not Want Not
In this episode of GROUNDED Live, we share another unedited session recorded at GROUNDED Festival 2025, on farm in Bridgetown, Western Australia.When we talk about waste, it’s often framed as inefficiency — a waste of time or resources. ...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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50:44
GROUNDED Live - 2025: Jeff Pow & Michelle McManus - Hope, Grit & Joy; Realities of Small Scale Farming
In this episode of GROUNDED Live, we share another unedited session recorded at GROUNDED Festival 2025, on farm in Bridgetown, Western Australia.One of the things we love most at GROUNDED is storytelling — especially when farmers are giv...
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1:00:13
GROUNDED Live - 2025: Matthew Evans - What Your Food Ate. Milk and Meat & Why Farming Systems Matter
In this episode of GROUNDED Live, we share another unedited session recorded at GROUNDED Festival 2025, on farm in Bridgetown, Western Australia.This session is presented by Matthew Evans — GROUNDED founder and director, farmer, chef, au...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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1:00:33
GROUNDED Live - 2025: Patrick O'Neill - Meat Doesn't Grow in Supermarkets; Local Meat, Local Infrastructure
In this episode of GROUNDED Live, we share another unedited presentation recorded at GROUNDED Festival 2025, on farm in Bridgetown, Western Australia.Across Australia, one issue comes up again and again for small and medium-sized produce...
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50:34
GROUNDED Live - 2025: Matt Fox & Eloise Jarvis - Sustainable, Carbon Neutral Drinks. What does the reality look like?
In this episode of GROUNDED Live, we share another unedited session recorded at GROUNDED Festival 2025, on farm in Bridgetown, Western Australia.There’s a lot of conversation in agriculture about carbon — carbon neutral, carbon negative,...
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50:59
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 responsibilit...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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50:30
GROUNDED Live - 2025: David Pollock & Will Bignell - Farm Succession from Two Angles
In this episode of GROUNDED Live, we share another unedited session recorded at GROUNDED Festival 2025, on farm in Bridgetown, Western Australia.When we think about farms, we often picture family operations passed carefully from one gene...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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55:17
GROUNDED Live - 2025: Joshua Gilbert & Blythe Calnan - Who’s Minding the Farm?
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 r...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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53:24
GROUNDED Live - 2025: Joel Williams - Plants As Superheroes
In this episode of GROUNDED Live, we share another unedited session recorded on site at GROUNDED Festival 2025, on farm in Bridgetown, Western Australia.This session features Joel Williams, a globally respected agronomist and educator kn...
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52:03
GROUNDED Live - 2025: Jill Clapperton - Demystifying the Rhizosphere
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...
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57:20
GROUNDED Live - 2025: David Watson - Mistletoe Magic - Are We Getting Mistletoe All Wrong?
In this episode of GROUNDED Live, we share another unedited presentation recorded at GROUNDED Festival 2025, on farm in Bridgetown, Western Australia. One of the great joys of GROUNDED is discovering speakers who make you fall...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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58:17
GROUNDED Live - 2025: Dan Kittredge & Matthew Evans - The Nutrient Density Conundrum
In this episode of GROUNDED Live, we close out the GROUNDED Festival 2025 program with a very special, very free-wheeling session.If you’ve been to the last couple of GROUNDED festivals — in Tasmania or WA — you’ll already know
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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56:05
GROUNDED Live - 2025: Ian & Di Haggerty - What’s it Like being Western Australians of the Year, & Farmers?
In this episode of GROUNDED Live, we continue sharing unedited sessions recorded at GROUNDED Festival 2025 on farm in Bridgetown, Western Australia.Across Australia, some of the deepest knowledge about landscapes is held by...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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1:00:00
GROUNDED Live - 2025: Mark Tupman - Developing High Performance Living Soils
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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59:51
GROUNDED Live - 2025: David Watson - Why Farm Landscapes are Critical for Safeguarding Wildlife
There’s a persistent belief in Australia — and around the world — that farming and nature sit on opposite sides of a divide. That ecological harmony belongs “out there” in national parks, while food production happens elsewhere. But the truth i...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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41:57
GROUNDED Live - 2025: Heidi Mippy, Di & Ian Haggerty - First Nations Integration into the Food System
In this episode of GROUNDED Live, we share another unedited session from GROUNDED Festival 2025, recorded on farm in Bridgetown, Western Australia.A question that arises often in Australian agriculture is: How can farmers meaningfully en...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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1:01:31
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:
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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59:51
GROUNDED Live - 2025: Jade Miles - Huddle Book Launch
One of the things we love at GROUNDED is shining a light on the writers, thinkers and storytellers who help shape the way we understand farming, food and community. Today’s presentation features Jade Miles — a barefooted force of na...
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58:54
GROUNDED Live - 2025: David Pollock - Farming On The Edge
In this episode of GROUNDED Live, we feature David Pollock, a rangelands farmer from Western Australia - and one of the most refreshingly honest voices in Australian agriculture. The bio he sent us in the lead up to the event...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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55:46
GROUNDED Live - 2025: Will Bignell - Getting 80% of the Result for 20% of the Effort
In this episode of GROUNDED Live, we bring you another presentation from GROUNDED Festival 2025, recorded at Galloway Springs in Bridgetown, Western Australia.This session features Will Bignell, a seventh-generation ...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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58:12
GROUNDED Live - 2025: Dan Kittredge - From Organic Gardener to Global Nutrient Density Activist
In this episode of GROUNDED Live, we bring you another unedited presentation recorded at GROUNDED Festival 2025 in Bridgetown, Western Australia.This session features Dan Kittredge, an American organic farmer with mo...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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1:01:46
GROUNDED Live - 2025: Kylie Woodham - Building a Farm Business from Zero & Stacking Enterprises
In this episode of GROUNDED Live, we continue sharing the unedited presentations recorded at GROUNDED Festival 2025 on farm in Bridgetown, Western Australia.This session features Kylie Woodham, founder of Magnus ...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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52:14
GROUNDED Live - 2025: Professor Lyn Abbott - What’s New & Vital in Soil Health?
Welcome to the very first episode of GROUNDED Live, hosted by farmer, author and festival co-founder Matthew Evans. This series shares the unedited presentations from GROUNDED Festival 2025, recorded live from Gall...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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