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The Soils for Life podcast brings you the voices of farmers around Australia who are regenerating our precious soils and landscapes.
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The network underpinning it all: Fungi with Dr Sapphire McMullan-Fisher and Julie Fielder (opens the original)
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World Fungus Day is in October and to mark the occasion we spoke with two mycologists - fungi experts - Dr Sapphire McMullan-Fisher and Julie Fielder about this amazing and mostly hidden lifeform. Sapphire is a lecturer in plant and fungal Ecology at the University of New England and Julie runs consultancy Phytos Environmental in WA, and both are involved with Fungimap, one of Australia’s longest running citizen science organisations. They’ve both also been involved in the recently published boo
From feeding animals to feeding biology: Learning to graze differently with David and Ruth Read (opens the original)
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About the podcast David and Ruth Read own and manage Woodcote, a 470 hectare beef cattle trading farm located in East Gippsland, Victoria. In this episode, we talk about: How the Millennium Drought sounded a wake-up call for their farm The changes they have made since that time including moving towards higher density grazing, establishment of fencing and water infrastructure to support that Shifting to a primarily trading enterprise and refocusing from feeding animals to feeding biology. Ruth an
Feeding the soil first: Hugh and Katie Finlay on diversity at every level (opens the original)
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Hugh and Katie Finlay manage a 30 hectare farm in Central Victoria, including a commercial stone fruit orchard and fruit tree nursery. The farm also includes a range of small enterprises run by others under the banner of the Harcourt Farming Co-op, including a dairy, market garden, and bush foods plot. Since 2013, Hugh and Katie also have been educating others in how to grow organic and regenerative fruit through their business, Grow Great Fruit. Perennial horticulture is a fairly new area for m
Creating diversity above and below the ground: Murray Gomm on cover crops in orchards and vineyards (opens the original)
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Murray Gomm is a regenerative farmer and winemaker based near Albany in Western Australia. With his partner Pamela Lincoln, he runs Oranje Tractor Farm, a small organic vineyard and orchard that’s become known for its focus on soil health, biodiversity and carbon-positive farming. Since the late 1990s, Murray has transformed a degraded property into a thriving, diverse landscape producing wine, fruit, and olive oil. The farm integrates cover crops, composting, mulching, and biological soil manag
The power of pasture analysis, with Emily House (opens the original)
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Emily House began her career as a geologist before an unlikely path led her into ruminant nutrition. After moving to New Zealand, she started working with two vets who wanted to shift from treating livestock disease reactively to preventing it, which meant looking closely at pasture as the major component of the diet. Emily brings a background in earth science to her work interpreting pasture and soil analysis for animal health and performance. She was part of the team that developed the DietDec
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