The Regenerative Journey with Charlie Arnott

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Tom Mulligan | Continuing t...

01.23.2023

Tom Mulligan is a member of the Highland Beef Pastoral Beef grazier group which fattens stock in partnership with Highland Beef. His skill in doing so is the result of growing up in the country, working on the farm, his ...

The Regenerative Journey with Charlie Arnott episodes:

01.23.2023 Tom Mulligan \| Continuing the legacy of holistic farm management, with a grass fed twist. Tom Mulligan is a member of the Highland Beef Pastoral Beef grazier group which fattens stock in partnership with Highland Beef. His skill in doing so is the result of growing up in the country, working on the farm, his ...
01.16.2023 Bianca Tarrant, Dave McGiveron and Our Cow \| From humble struggling farmers to creating a nationwide impact on the food system Dave and Bianca are a young powerhouse couple on a mission to provide Australia with clean regeneratively grown grass-fed meat, whilst supporting their supplier farmers with a nationwide opportunity to share their stories and nutritious produce. From humble beginnings, they ...
01.09.2023 Jason Cotter \| Reviving ancient grains in a modern Australian age Jason Cotter has had many and varied chapters to his life, known more recently for his foray into the world of heritage grains, plant breeding and bread making. Having almost fallen into his new farming career, Jason is now a ...
01.03.2023 Katherine Trebeck \| How a 'wellbeing' based economy can save the planet Katherine Trebeck presented at the RCS Convergence Conference last July and her compelling session there and this interview centres around the economies of the world, their often misguided methods of measurement and indicators of 'success', and introduces the principles of ...
12.19.2022 David Carter \| The good life of family, cattle, horses and herd management David Carter has been a man of the land all his life. As have his forebears at Scone in NSW. Just like so many people now on a regenerative journey a serious health scare made David look differently at his ...
12.12.2022 Dr Zach Bush \| The intelligent expression of Nature for a world hungry for Farmer’s Footprints Zach Bush has been physically absent from the Australian landscape for nearly 3 years, last in the country just days before the world shut down. Charlie's long-awaited in-person interview first lined up all those years ago with Zach was recorded ...
12.05.2022 Jacqueline McGlade \| Arctic endurance races, forest communication, frugal abundance and an African Masai King. Jacqueline McGlade is an enigma. If there was an award for squeezing in as many globally purposeful and individually challenging projects into one life Jacqueline would surely win! In this shorter-than-normal interview, Charlie catches glimpses of many aspects of Jacqueline's ...
11.28.2022 Blair Beattie \| Planting Farmers Footprints firmly in the health of soil and humanity Blair Beattie has done many things, studied horticulture, worked in hospitality, travelled the world, farmed and lost and found himself several times. His latest adventure may well be his most important and impactful, the bringing of Farmers Footprint to Australia ...
11.21.2022 Walter Jehne \| Pioneering soil microbiology, and blowing the lid off climate alarmists. Walter is a pioneer of microbiology in Australia, cutting his teeth at the CSIRO in Canberra. His science-based experiences and wisdom are unique given his ability to implement them in meaningful ways in landscapes around the world. A true master ...
11.14.2022 Cherie Gooding \| The road to recovery through a life of discovery. Cherie Gooding is an inspirational woman. From her own health challenges from an early age, through her veterinarian training and practice, and life-threatening tipping points, she has learned and adapted to whatever life has thrown her way. More recently she ...
11.07.2022 Dr Pran Yoganathan \| Exposing the intersection of farming, food, disease care and Big Pharma Charlie caught up with the prolific Dr Pran Yoganathan midway through an Introduction to Biodynamics workshop at Charlie's farm and could have spoken for 3 hours such is the depth of Pran’s knowledge of nutrition, human health, food as medicine ...
10.31.2022 Diana Rodgers \| How The Sacred Cow can save Planetary and Human Health. Nutritionist, author and advocate of real food production and consumption Diana Rodgers lead us through her journey of health challenges which gave her unique insight into the world of nutrition, environment, farming and ultimately health regeneration. Charlie and Diana also ...
10.24.2022 RCS Convergence Conference 2022 \|Special Episode Charlie took aside a number of speakers and attendees of the Resource Consulting Services Australia (RCS) in July 2022 to dig into their thoughts and observations of the long-awaited 10 yearly conference. Listen as David McLean, Diana Rodgers, Stuart Austin, ...
10.17.2022 Brock Hatton \| From Industrial Design to the Chief of Regeneratively Sourced Meat Protein Snacks Brock Hatton is a co-founder of Chief, a meat and collagen-based protein snack company founded on the mission of creating nutritious snack foods. Soon after his journey began he quickly realised there was much more to learn and advocate about ...
10.10.2022 Murray Richardson \| From Industrial Food Manufacturing to a Regenerative Food System Murray Richardson has spent his entire working life involved in the food industry, working with some of the largest and most well-known food manufacturing companies in Australia. More recently Murray founded a grass-fed beef supply chain business exporting to the ...
10.03.2022 Charlie and Angelica Arnott \| A View of the World as it Currently Stands. Charlie and his wife Angelica reflect on their lives between podcast seasons, a wet winter, overwhelm, baking cakes and who's lined up for Season 6 of the Regenerative Journey. Episode Links: Optiweigh - https://www.optiweigh.com.au/ Episode Credits: Thank you to all ...
06.06.2022 Bruce Pascoe \| Eons of Indigenous Wisdom for a Collaborative Future Charlie's guest for the final episode of Season 5 is Bruce Pascoe. This episode was recorded in late May in Sydney where Charlie was honored to interview Bruce 'live' as part of the Fairlight Butcher's series of events featuring renowned ...
05.30.2022 Jay Marinis \| Creating Nutritious Food, Community Hubs & Integrative Health Charlie's guest for the penultimate episode of Season 5 of TRJ is Jay Marinis. Jay is on a mission to recreate the essence and culture of a traditional 'Public House' in the Adelaide Hills - to bring together community into ...
05.23.2022 John & Kym Kalleske \| Ancient Vines, Biodynamic Wine & Seven Generations of Australian Farming Charlie's guests for this episode of TRJ are 6th & 7th generation farmers John & Kym Kalleske. John & Kym have successfully combined traditional farming family values, Biodynamic farming practices and innovative modern wine making on their farm in the ...
05.16.2022 Rose Kentish \| Bottling Landscape, Community, connection, Social Change & Fine Wine Charlie's guest for this episode of TRJ is Rose Kentish. Rose is an enigma - combining her love of making wine that captures the flavours and perfume of landscape and terroir, with social change, species preservation, regenerative farming and climate ...
05.09.2022 Arne Rubinstein \| Bringing Back Traditional Rites of Passage to the Youth of Today. Charlie's guest for this epsiode of TRJ is Arne Rubinstein. Arne Rubinstein started his professional life at the coal face of youth trauma and misadventure in several Emergency Rooms in regional NSW. Through his own research, observations and investigations, Arne ...
05.02.2022 Angelica Arnott \| Swapping show biz for Regenerative Livin' Charlie's guest for this episode is his beautiful wife Angelica. Charlie has had many and varied interesting discussions with his wife Angelica and decided it was about time to share them with the world. The episode delves into her own ...
04.25.2022 Bert Glover \| Leading the Charge of Leveraging Farm Natural Capital Charlie's guest for this episode of TRJ is Bert Glover. Through family challenges and plenty of on-farm experience, Bert Glover has created a business that allows farmers to leverage the Natural Capital of their farms, and attract capital investment into ...
04.18.2022 Bart Davidson \| The Myth, The Polymath, The Man Charlie's guest for this episode of TRJ is Bart Davidson. Bart has traversed a career in agriculture all his adult life and there are not many people Charlie knows who have such a broad skill set and experience in the ...
04.11.2022 Terry McCosker\|Part 2 \| The Godfather of Regenerative Australian Agriculture Part 2 of Charlie’s marathon interview with the Godfather of regenerative Australian agriculture focuses on Terry’s development of holistic farm management in an Australian context, the vision of RCS Australia, Natural Capital, and finally the convergence of agriculture, human and ...
04.04.2022 Terry McCosker \|Part 1 \| The Godfather of Regenerative Australian Agriculture Charlie's guest for this episode of TRJ is Terry McCosker. After a few false starts and nearly a 2 year wait, Charlie finally sat down with Terry in the Brisbane City Botanic Gardens for a marathon 3 hour conversation. In ...
03.28.2022 Glen Carlson \| Entrepreneur & Business Scale-up King Finds his Feet in Regenerative Farming Charlie caught up with Glen on his new farm to explore his regenerative journey. It's clear his 7 years at sea circumnavigating the globe with his parents as a boy set up attitudes and behaviours that have stood him in ...
03.21.2022 Nat Kelley \| Putting the Culture Back into Agriculture with Indigenous Wisdom and Grace Charlie's guest for this episode of TRJ is Nat Kelley. Nat Kelley is a Peruvian born Australian actress who has made a name for herself in Hollywood not just for her acting but also for her sincere and impassioned support ...
03.14.2022 Charlie Arnott \| A New Year of Opportunity Charlie opens TRJ Season 5 with some reflections on the period of time between podcast seasons, announcing some of his future guests, the exciting collaboration with regenerative farm training and advisory business RCS Australia and thoughts on the year ahead. ...
12.13.2021 Jon Farriss \| From a life of INXS to the natural abundance of a family farm Jon Farriss, drummer of world famous Australian band INXS, has always done his own thing, teaching himself drums at an early age, pioneering the use of computer modulated music software, and shifting his talents to regenerating a farm near Byron ...
12.06.2021 Adam Gibson \|Part 2 \| From gym junkie to regenerative farming facilitator via 'the edge' This is the second part of Charlie's interview with business development guru Adam Gibson. In Part 2, Charlie and Adam take a deep dive into Adam's involvement in regenerative agriculture and how this involvement has grown in recent years. From ...
11.29.2021 Adam Gibson \|Part 1 \| From gym junkie to regenerative farming facilitator, via 'the edge' Charlie's guest for this episode is business development guru Adam Gibson. Adam Gibson grew up on a small bush block in SE QLD, and over the next 35 years owned a gym, competed in body building competitions, mentored natural health ...
11.22.2021 Gabrielle Chan \| Why we should give a f*ck about farming The acclaimed author and journalist Gabrielle Chan is Charlie's guest for this episode. Gabrielle Chan's media and journalism background combined with her 'opposition defiance disorder' has seen her challenge political and rural issues with curiosity and persistence, resulting in a ...
11.15.2021 Andy Carbone \| From cattle stations to TV stations - Andy's journey is one of reflection and regeneration In this episode Charlie chats with Andy Carbone about his regenerative journey so far. Andy Carbone started his life on a Central Queensland cattle station before trying his hand at acting, screen writing and film directing. A career and life ...
11.08.2021 Nick Mace \| A young family's journey from conventional farming to regenerative living In this episode Charlie chats to Nick Mace. Nick and his young family are currently transitioning their mixed enterprise farm in Western NSW to more regenerative practices, primarily initiated by a health scare some years ago which has changed the ...
11.01.2021 Marcus Pearce\| From a smoking, binge-drinking sports journalist to identifying a blueprint for living an exceptional life. In this episode Charlie chats to his good friend Marcus Pearce. Marcus was not necessarily destined for a life of health and wellness. However, meeting his wife Sarah, a stint at veganism, a fascination with longevity & quality of life ...
10.25.2021 Amelia Nolan\| Bringing together new technologies with regenerative grape growing & natural wine making. Amelia Nolan represents a new breed of wine maker, one with no preconceived notion of 'the right way to make wine'. Amelia is willing to explore the artisanal craft of natural wine making, initiating regenerative farming practices in the vineyard ...
10.18.2021 Episode 44 \| Michael Taylor \| The biodiversity personified, agroforestry & regenerative wool producer all in one pioneering family business In this episode Charlie chats to Michael Taylor. Michael Taylor is from a multigenerational farming family in the New England region of NSW and is continuing his parents legacy of innovation, agroforestry and ethically produced fine merino wool production. Diversity ...
10.11.2021 Rebecca Sullivan \| From sports journalism to food activism & helping to put the culture back into agriculture along the way In this episode Charlie chats to Rebecca Sullivan. Rebecca Sullivan grew up in a family with a conventional attitude to food. A life changing incident at an Italian feast, rocked her appreciation and reverence for food culture and tradition, setting ...
10.04.2021 Melissa Brown \| Working with Nature and Improving the Soil as Cornerstones of Regenerative Grape Growing and Wine Making Charlie caught up with Melissa Brown during an 'Introduction to Biodynamics' workshop Charlie was facilitating at and Melissa was hosting at her Biodynamic vineyard in the McLaren Vale region of South Australia. Melissa's dedication to working in partnership with nature, ...
09.27.2021 Stuart Austin \| 'Ringer From the Top End' to Carbon Farming Guru Stuart Austin is fast becoming an expert and well respected advocate of building soil carbon, as well as a well known practitioner of regenerative farming on the collection of Wilmot Cattle Co properties. Charlie caught up with Stuart to delve ...
09.20.2021 Tammi Jonas \| From Vegan University Activist to Farm Based Meatsmith and Local Food Systems Advocate. From hunger strikes at university to becoming the president of the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance, Tammi Jonas has always fought for the rights of others. In this episode Charlie explores Tammi's colourful history of advocacy and food production. She is ...
09.13.2021 Maggie Beer \| An Australian Food, Farming & Community Phenomenon Maggie Beer is one of Australia's best-known cooks, fresh food advocates, rural community supporters, and on farm restauranteur icons. Charlie caught up with Maggie at her home in The Barossa Valley, surrounded by quince, citrus and medlar trees, to explore ...
09.06.2021 Charlie Arnott \| The Times...They Are Changing! In the first Episode of Season 4 our podcast host Charlie Arnott picks up the mic and provides a preview of what's in store for Season 4 including information about some of his illustrious guests that will be joining him ...
06.07.2021 Darren Doherty \| The Regenerative Integrationist Darren Doherty is a self confessed regenerative integrationist and the conversation he had with Charlie certainly supports that description of this multi-talented consultant, environmentalist and landscape manager. Charlie explores with Darren his career from growing up in Bendigo, Victoria, his ...
05.31.2021 Regionality's 'Farm2Plate Exchange' 2021 Conference Special \| Part 2 In part 2 of the short interviews Charlie recorded at the Regionality 'Farm 2 Plate Exchange recently he spoke with the author of 'Call of the Reed Warbler', Charlie Massy, one of Australia most celebrated chefs and 'keeping it local' ...
05.24.2021 Regionality's 'Farm2Plate Exchange' 2021 Conference Special \| Part 1 In this compilation episode, Charlie interviews a number of presenters at Regionality's 2021 'Farm2Plate Exchange' Conference. Part 1 features interviews with Rose Wright, Founder & MD of Regionality; legendary indigenous foods advocate, farmer & writer Bruce Pascoe; Dr Georgina Davis, ...
05.17.2021 Dave Westbrook \| The Farm Business Coach Giving Life Lessons to Help Farmers Achieve Their Goals Charlie caught up with Dave Westbrook at Hanaminno for this interview which tracks Dave's journey from cropping farm boy, through to owning his own grazing farm and business, family succession challenges, development of his farm management skills through the Farm ...
05.10.2021 Peter Andrews \| The Godfather of Landscape Rehydration & Natural Sequence Farming Peter Andrews is one of Australia's landscape geniuses, who has been battling to change the stats quo attitude of government, farmers and land managers to hydrology and restoring landscape function for 40 years. Charlie sat with Peter at his farm ...
05.03.2021 Stuart Andrews \| Natural Sequence Farming Royalty & Landscape Function Facilitator Charlie caught up with Stuart Andrews, the son of the founder of Natural Sequence Farming (NSF) Peters Andrews, the day after Stuart had completed a 4 day NSF training workshops at Charlie's farm Hanaminno. Stuart is an incredibly open and ...

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