Shane Joyce
In 2014 Shane Joyce bought his new farm at Kilkivan keeping in mind the importance of permanent water, good soil, proximity to market and an…
Shane Joyce
BONUS ARTICLE: FARM LAND “I have been lucky, I have learned to have the courage to make mistakes and re-label them as learning opportunities. I…
Andre Leu – Regenerative Agriculture – Building Resilience In A Changing Climate
Andre Leu is an Australian organic farmer, an internationally recognised speaker, the author of ‘The Myths of Safe Pesticides’ and “Poisoning Our Children”. He was…
Andre Leu – Farming Without Chemicals
Andre Leu is an Australian organic farmer, an internationally recognised speaker, the author of ‘The Myths of Safe Pesticides’ and “Poisoning Our Children”. He was…
Liz Clay
Liz Clay is an organic vegetable grower at BawBaw Organics, Noojee, Victoria.. She has decades of involvement in organic farming movements. She has been involved…
Kevin Hughes & Dr. Maarten Stapper
This is the story about a block that we visited with Dr. Maarten Stapper and Kevin Hughes just after Kevin bought it in 2008. When…
Healthy Soils/Nutrition Farming
Graeme Sait is founder and director of Nutri-Tech Solutions, a company established in 1994 with the goal of improving nutrition from the soil up. Passionately…
Combining Perennial Native Grasslands, Multi Species Cover Cropping & Planned Grazing – Part 3
Gabe says that he succeeded without any added microbial, foliars, anything other than seed and a little bit of livestock mineral. That’s all. He claims…
Combining Perennial Native Grasslands, Multi Species Cover Cropping & Planned Grazing – Part 2
When Gabe started down the path of cover cropping his organic matter levels were 1.7-1.9% so he could hold approximately 35-40,000 gallons of water per…
Combining Perennial Native Grasslands, Multi Species Cover Cropping & Planned Grazing – Part 1
This is the 1st session of Gabe Brown’s presentation at the Stipa conference. Gabe Brown is one of the pioneers of the current soil health…
Indigenous Agriculture Prior to European Settlement
In his book Dark Emu, Bruce Pascoe argues for a reconsideration of the ‘hunter-gatherer’ tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians and attempts to rebut the colonial…
Local Solutions with Global Implications
Rachelle Armstrong opens the Nutrisoil Annual event: Local Solutions with Global Implications following with an update of the latest research findings with their Nutrisoil product.…
Healthy Soils, Healthy People
This “Walk the Talk” is of a live demonstration by Gerhard at the Healthy Soils, Healthy People workshop held by Narracan Landcare group at Annie…
Cover Cropping
Steve Groff, farmer and founder of Tillage Radish was invited to Schreurs & Sons farm to talk about cover cropping. We thank Steve Groff for…
Resilience through Diversity
Steve Davie and his family live on their farm, Bimbadeen. For over 60 years Bob Davie and his wife had run the farm and the…
Resilience through Diversity
This workshop with Rob Fenton from the National Environmental Centre (NEC) a specialist campus of the Riverina Institute of TAFE, takes you through the process…
Follow Up Consult for MultiSpecies Cover Cropping
Fraser was ready with many questions about diversification and how best to establish ongoing cover crops. The growth that we inspected was impressive and at…
The Advantages Of Practices That Give Long-term Profitability and Resilience For Farmers
Short term popular practices that lead to lowering soil structure and fertility, although expedient and relatively cheap – like using weedicides,have been proven to create…
Watch & Act Now Free Fertiliser (& A Lucrative Business)
Every farmer can greatly profit from managing the skills of setting up and managing a worm farm – large or small and turn farm waste…
Regenerative Agriculture
Shows you how to build your asset by building your soils Paul Hepperly brings to this presentation convincing results of the advantages gained from biological…
How to Make Biodynamic Compost
This “Walk the Talk” is the first part of the afternoon with Hamish Mackay and John Priestley at Krinklewood Vineyard, Broke This DVD is all…
Soil Biology & Botritis Forum – Part 2
Brainstorm on Biological farming for: Awareness, Knowledge, Understanding, Motivation, Action to Outcome Hear the value of like-minded highly motivated farmers when they take the time…
Soil Biology & Botritis Forum – Part 1
Brainstorm on Biological farming for: Awareness, Knowledge, Understanding, Motivation, Action to Outcome Hear the value of like-minded highly motivated farmers when they take the time…
Living Soils
Brainstorm on Biological farming for: Awareness, Knowledge, Understanding, Motivation, Action to Outcome Hear the value of like-minded highly motivated farmers when they take the time…
Mastermind of National Environmental Centre
Rob Fenton is based at the National Environment Centre (N EC), a specialist campus of the Riverina Institute of TAFE, Albury where he is the…
Compost Worm Secrets Revealed for Easy and Profitable Farming
The Problem: Compacted soils, lack of rain and lack of money as a result of overstocking and lack of money for inputs. What Did David Do?:…
Pasture Cropping Expert Farmer Reveals How To Consistently Increase Productivity And Reduce Cost
The Problem: Concerns about declining profitability, poor soil structure, dry land salinity, soil acidification and increasing numbers of herbicide resistance weeds prompted Colin Seis to…
Cropping Farmers Reveal How To Return Good Profits From Marginal Soil And Low Rainfall
Ian & Dianne Haggerty buy farms with marginal soils and erratic rainfalls but consistently improve the and out perform the district yields. Using comm…
Composting With Worms Made Easy
David Davidson is President of the Australian Worm Growers Association Vermculture lnc. and is passionate about all things to do with worms! This means that…
Restoring the Balance to Soil, Plant, Animal and Man
Ron and Bev Smith are dairy farmers at “Orana” , Fish Creek in Gippsland, Victoria. For the last 30 years and more they have worked…
Organic Farmer Reveals the Reward of Intensive & Biodiverse System
Brendon Eisner and Kate Ulman have been farming organically in Muskvale (just outside Daylesford) in Victoria since moving there in the winter of 2000. “MuskValley…
Dairy Farmers Discover The Unexpected Profits & Extra Benefits From Composting Dairy Effluent
This “Walk the Talk” is all about compost and the results from getting the soil biology going. Can farming really be as simple as this?…
Amazing Results From Composting With Worms
This “Walk the Talk” is all about worms! Bruce Davison and David Davidson reveal how they grow worms, feed worms, harvest worms and finally apply…
How to Make Compost Tea and See the Results
This “Walk the Talk” is of a live demonstration by Gerhard at the Seymour Alternative Field Day On Day 1 Gerhard demonstrated how to make…
Biodynamics; Regenerative Farm & Environment Practices Growing Soils for the Future – Food For Today
This “Walk the Talk” is the first morning with Hamish Mackay and John Priestley at Krinklewood Vineyard, Broke You will learn how biodynamic preparations contribute…
Remaking the Landscape
Martin has drought proofed his farm by following several principles which are key to remaking the landscape. The 1st major change was adopting holistic management…
SFI Growers Programme
The first two growers, Paul and Rob have been participating in the SFI Growers programme and Elaine visits to see how they are going. The…
Macadamia Production for a Changing Climate (incorporating biological farming principles)
Alan Coates is an experienced agricultural advisor who specialises in macadamia production in the Northern Rivers area of New South Wales, Australia. Apart from on…
Pasture Cropping & No Kill Cropping
The Problem: Compacted soils and run-off as a result of high intensive grazing and allocation of small paddocks. The soil structure had gone. What Did Maurice…
Putting Compost Tea Under The Microscope
In this walk we revisit the farms of David Davidson, Yonke & Don Cane and John Bedwell to look more closely at how compost teas…
An Introduction to Biodynamic Farming
Hamish Mackay, biodynamics educator, recently was asked to gave a brief insight into the wonders of biodynamics and its practical contribution to farming. During this…
Better Use or Fertiliser & Effluent
This Walk the Talk whilst filmed on a daily farm is nevertheless a good discussion about compost, compost making use of waste material and finally…
Simple & Practical Observations for Healthy Farming
This Walk the Talk: is a simple look at some basic observations to use to find out if your farm is healthy. It is a…
True Organic Co-op
Ron Smith founder of True Organic Co-op. has chosen to sell his dairy farm and open up a centre for learning. This “Walk the Talk“…
The Imperative For Change – Food, Fuel and Finance
Garry McDouall lives and works from his family property near Tamworth in New South Wales. He is a graduate of the Rural Profit System and…
Running the Farm Up
Bruce and Heidi Davison live at Candelo in Southeast NSW and were recent winners of the prestigious GAIA award 2012. So after the award night…
Healthy Soil Healthy Food
Maarten‘s focus is to help farmers improve profitability by harnessing the power of natural soil processes through biological farming to produce hea…
A Closer Look At Compost
Appearing on this video: Dr. Elaine Ingham (SFI & Rodale institute) Ron Smith, David Davidson, Graeme Hand, John Bedwell, Gerhard Grasser, Alistair and Robert Jones, Bruce…
Increasing Carbon & Surviving in Drought
Hugo interviews Bruce to find out the history of the farm. Bruce and his wife, Heidi arrived at the farm with a clear plan to…
Healthy Soil, Healthy Food
Morning session: Managing soil health & soil fertility through soil biology & carbon, and links to food quality and connections with human health and food security…
