“You can only get healthy food off a healthy landscape” – Charlie Massy. Charles Massy, grazier and author, spoke this week in Bathurst about his new book Call of the Reed Warbler: A New Agriculture – A New Earth. Reflecting …
Australian Agriculture and its future
Anika Molesworth is a young 28 year old from Broken Hill who in 2015 was selected as the Australian Young Farmer of the Year. Anika is currently completing her PhD. Her pet interests concern equity for farmers in Australia and …
Ecological Farming is the answer
Ecological Farming is the answer according to a major report just released. The June 2016 report by the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems calls for a paradigm shift from Industrial Agriculture to diversified Agroecological Systems. The key …
Biodiversity in soils
Biodiversity is a key word in the following article which is from a USA based website called Dirt First – Food and Environment Reporting Network. The thoughts gel with the principles Vince Heffernan is referring to and with that which the EAAA …
10: Leading a movement with Lorraine Gordon
Today, on Ground Cover, Kerry is joined by Lorraine Gordon, a beef cattle trader from Ebor who is also Director of Strategic Projects a…
9: Stay tuned… this series of Ground Cover is not quite over yet.
Stay tuned… this series of Ground Cover is not quite over yet. We’ll be taking a short break for a couple of weeks, then we’ll be bac…
8: Regenerating soils and communities with Helen and Mike McCosker
Kerry talks with Helen and Mike McCosker about the important of regenerating not only soil, but also communities….
7: The five landscape functions in practice with livestock producer Tim Wright
Today on Ground Cover, our host Kerry Cochrane, explores the five landscape functions and how they play out on Tim Wright’s property….
6: Out of the ashes with multi species pasture cropping expert Col Seis
Today, Kerry chats with Colin Seis; a mixed farmer from the Gulgong area of New South Wales. Col has come from a traditional cropping a…
5: From little things big things grow with 6th generation farmer Michael Taylor
On Ground Cover today, Kerry is joined by Michael Taylor, a sixth generation wool producer from Kentucky, on the Northern Tablelands of…
4: It all starts with the soil with Derek Smith
Today, Kerry chats with Derek Smith, a mixed farmer from Guyra who has come along the journey from conventional to regenerative farmer….
3: From bare paddock to diverse landscape with Bruce Maynard: No Kill Cropping, Self Herding and grazing management
Today, Kerry Cochrane talks with Bruce Maynard, a mixed farmer from Narromine, NSW, who was a conventional farmer, direct drilling for …
1: An introduction to Ground Cover – a series exploring the trials and tribulation of the regenerative agriculture revolution
Welcome to the introductory episode of Ground Cover – a podcast for farmers by farmers.
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2: The regenerative agriculture revolution with Dr Charles Massy
Today, on Ground Cover, Kerry Cochrane speaks to renown author and regenerative farming revolutionary, Dr Charles Massy; a well known g…