In Episode 34 of the Biological Farming Roundtable, host Nakala Maddock and agroecologist David Hardwick from Soil Land Food speak with cropping farmer Brendan Pattison, from Marrer in NSW. Brendan discloses how he has managed transitional change in his farming system to reduce dependence on synthetics by activating and feeding soil biology while remaining profitable. Monitoring and observations are key tools for tweaking biostimulant and foliar applications as crop needs change.

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This month’s podcast takes the Biological Farming Roundtable podcast to Ingham QLD, for the Regenerative Cane Farmers Forum. Host Nakala Maddock is joined by agroecologist David Hardwick from Soil Land Food, they speak with cane farmer Ray Zamora from Tully about addressing soil compaction and declining soil health in the sugar cane industry. Ray shares his soil health learning journey, and how invention, biology and networking earnt him the right to farm with less Nitrogen, without compromising profits.

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In episode 32 of the Biological Farming Roundtable host Nakala Maddock is joined by Robin Tait an independent consultant in Tasmania, as they chat with Aiden and Sarah Coombes. Aiden manages Westmore a 3400 ha grazing property owned by Greenhams and is involved in implementing the Never Ever Beef Program, while Sarah manages properties owned by the Coombes. Located in the northwest of Tasmania the climate has a unique set of challenges, which the couple meets head-on and are thriving. The podcast explores how expanding knowledge, thinking outside the square and pushing boundaries, along with a team approach are aiding their journey to producing nutrient-dense food while staying profitable.

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In episode 31 of the Biological Farming Roundtable Podcast, host Nakala Maddock is joined by Jane Slattery co-founder of natural intelligence farming. Nakala and Jane speak with cattle grazier Dale Retschlag from Biloela in Queensland. Dale is the president of Central Queensland Landscape Alliance, a farmer led regenerative restoration group and explains his journey to being at peace with a non-negotiable synthetic free farming system. The podcast covers all things involved in the regenerative movement, including; steps to transition and how Dale felt, the light bulb moment (when he knew he was not going back), worm extracts, community, family, health and an open intuitive mind.

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Jacob Wolki is an entrepreneur from Albury Wodonga. Treating animals with respect, family and medicinal food drive his quest to build a community where farmers and consumers are connected by shared values. He raises animals, processes them, sells online, has a self-serve butchery, and runs farm tours. He is changing the system of how farmers share their produce, which is what we discuss in this episode.

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Robin Tait from Tasmania has a background in agronomy, after ten years in pyrethrum production. A Nuffield Scholarship in 2018 took her all over the world looking at different farming systems. This led to a career change for Robin who is now an independent consultant, specialising in regenerative agriculture and working with multispecies cover crops. Although in its early stages, Robin has recently added another string to her bow, being mentored and guided by Jane Slattery to begin integrating Natural Intelligence Farming into her consulting. Natural Intelligence Farming helps people with integrating true presence of self with decision-making to help people transition from management to stewardship of their land. Robin is also a key member of the NutriSoil HUB Care Team. Today Robin and I discuss her reasons for changing her career path to work more holistically with farming, food, diversity, and people. We also discuss the enormous barrier healthy food production systems are faced with, which is disadvantaging both farmers and consumers.

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In Episode 28 of the Biological Farming Roundtable podcast Nakala and David Hardwick speak with Western Australian farmer Rob Hetherington from Lake King. Rob’s grandparents first moved to the region in 1927 battling scrub and deep sodic soils and managed to carve a future for the family of farmers when many others walked off the land. We follow the Hetherington’s amazing journey and discuss the changes to management over nearly 100 years, which have resulted in Rob recently being awarded the Wheatbelt NRM Soil Health Champion for 2022.

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In episode 27 Nakala speaks to the experts on multispecies cropping and the role they play in improving soil, plant and animal health and reducing the synthetic inputs as costs continue to increase impacting farming profits.

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Nakala speaks to agroecologist David Hardwick Soil Land Food and Luke Harrington from Re-Gen Farming about the skyrocketing Phosphorus prices and how to unlock the phosphorous reserves in your soil to protect your profit margin.

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In episode 25 of the Biological Farming Roundtable Nakala explores the natural intelligence of the dung beetle, and how to establish a dung beetle corridor. She also speaks to regenerative farmer Rodney Bacon about how he used good old ingenuity to build his own compost extractor.

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