Great Listening July! … Regenerative Agriculture

Drawing on his own experience, and interviewing peers and a wide range of industry leaders and experts his listener numbers continue to grow.



LISTEN NOW: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/farms-advice-agribusiness-podcast/id1517590016

My favourite episode so far is "3 Challenges for Australian Grain Producers"; it gave me a better understanding of the current situation of the grains industry. He teams up with Michael Madden with 37 years farming experience as well as active advocacy roles with bodies such as Grain Producers Australia and NSWFA Biosecurity Committee. Michael talks about his own background in farming and how after a serious farm injury he became more involved with the agribusiness side of farming and industry bodies. He and Jack discuss what he considers the 3 main challenges:

• Supply chain issues
• Biosecurity
• Labour issues

I encourage you to listen to Jack's podcast and let me know if you enjoy it or learn something new! 

https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/farms-advice-agribusiness-podcast/id1517590016

Great Listening June! … Farm Life & Regenerative Agriculture

Being an avid listener of ABC Western Qld, it’s important to me to know the issues facing our region, but more importantly to hear new opinions and science emerging across South-West Queensland. Now that I have introduced myself to podcasts, I can add this to my repertoire and have something new to do while driving around our patch! I reckon podcasts are like news on steroids - podcasts can take you on that extra journey and help you understand the often complicated subjects of landcare, farm life and regenerative agriculture. 

The podcast I chose is by SBS Radio called The Uluru Statement from The Heart. It’s a topic set to gain further momentum following newly elected Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's recent pledge to honour The Uluru Statement. The Uluru Statement from the Heart calls for a referendum to provide constitutional recognition for a representative body that gives First Nations peoples a voice to the Commonwealth Parliament.

LISTEN NOW: https://www.sbs.com.au/language/english/audio/english-the-uluru-statement-from-the-heart 



Indigenous and non-Indigenous people would agree that there is something special about living on the land, being connected to place and Country - the land is in our blood, regardless of our heritage.

The past few years have been very challenging for us all, drought, flood, and fire. Climate Change is what future generations of Australians will grapple with, a true test of resilience and adaptation. 

The Uluru Statement from The Heart will be historic for all Australians to reimagine our nation. The door is open to explore and combine Western Scientific Knowledge with First Nations Knowledge and set a true course to healing our nation, its citizens and it will bring together our two worlds with 60,000 years of culture as a gift for all future generations.

LISTEN NOW: https://www.sbs.com.au/language/english/audio/english-the-uluru-statement-from-the-heart 

LISTEN IN LANGUAGE: https://www.sbs.com.au/language/ulurustatement 

I encourage you to share your favourite regenerative agriculture or farm life podcasts with us by emailing me at jackson.shillingsworth@sqlandscapes.org.au. 

Great Listening May! … Farm Life & Regenerative Agriculture

Dr Ron Ehrlich has been running Unstress with Dr John Ehrlich for some time now. In this podcast, he talks about the relationship between stress and health. 

At all ages, our health is the key to everything we do. I don’t ‘have time to be sick’. The topics that Ron covers are varied, backed by scientific research. Stress is a killer - so it's important to do everything we can to reduce it in our lives!

One of the big questions posed in this episode is - what activities do we do for ourselves that helps us de-stress?  ‘Walking – Make it the habit of a lifetime’, talks about the pace of walking, the speed of walking and what walking indicates about our health. Walking is a slow and time consuming activity for us to chat to our partner or loved one. Life is so busy, so slowing things down enables us to think, to get oxygen streaming through our bodies, enabling our bodily systems to clean themselves through a good old-fashioned sweat! It’s also good to look, listen, smell and feel something different, feel the rain on our face as we are engulfed by nature!

LISTEN NOW: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/healthy-bite-walking-make-it-the-habit-of-a-lifetime/id1333795919?i=1000540688331

I love walking – whether it be along the beach, in the rainforest, or just walking to the shops for a few groceries. I have a 9 kilometre beach walk that I do each morning when I can, and I’ve always enjoyed walking in the salt air. There are so many amazing things, funny things, beautiful things to see, smell, touch, and be immersed within when you are walking. Walking can slow you down, change your attitude, allow you to be grateful for the day you are living – because it is the only one you have at the time … waves crashing, kids giggling, dogs running in circles, smiles on faces, older people enjoying the outdoors at their own pace, the colours and textures of the bush, cymbidium orchid flowers hanging out of the fork in the tree, the musty smell of wet leaves, crisp winter mornings where you have to get moving or get cold.

What are your favourite walks? Do you walk regularly and with who? Is walking your ‘me time’?

I encourage you to share your favorite regenerative agriculture or farm life podcasts with us by emailing me at keith.walker@sqlandscapes.org.au

Great Listening April! … Regenerative Agriculture

Ground Cover is a series of nine podcasts exploring real life stories of Australian farmers who have chosen to move from conventional farming to regenerative agriculture. Click on the image or link below to listen now!

LISTEN NOW: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/ground-cover/id1479675823

My favourite is Episode 1 of Ground Cover. This one features Charles Massy, a well-known author and academic, who discusses life on-farm during a long drought in the 1980s. Charles says that he began to think about how a major shift in thinking was needed to repair the land and to enable agriculture to be regenerative rather than destructive. 

Charles also wrote ‘Call of the Reed Warbler’ as a way of helping others to understand the need for regenerative practices by showcasing other innovative farmers, so this episode of Ground Cover with Charles Massy goes down as my favorite in the series!

I encourage you to share your favorite regenerative agriculture podcasts with us by emailing me at anita.erba@sqlandscapes.org.au.