Ground Cover
11 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWelcome to Ground Cover. A podcast created for farmers, by farmers. Ground Cover is a uniquely Australian podcast series exploring real life stories of land managers who have undertaken the transition from conventional farming to regenerative agriculture.
In this series, we share unique and honest conversations about the challenges and opportunities of regenerative agriculture, so you can make informed decisions about how to best manage your land.
Proudly brought to you by The Regenerative Agriculture Alliance and Southern Cross University.
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Protecting our waterways and health from pesticides with Prof. Kirsten BenkendorffProfessor Kirsten Benkendorff is the Director of Southern Cross University’s National Marine Science Centre and the Deputy Director of the Marine Ecology Research Centre. Her research looks at the impacts of ocean climate change and environmental contaminants on the immune health and nutritional quality of seafood species. She is also investigating the use of marine molluscs for human medicine. Professor Benkendorff has published more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and also teaches into the Bachelor of Environmental Science, and Marine Science and Management programs at Southern Cross University. As a lead researcher for one of the projects in the Regenerative Agriculture Alliance’s Soil Extension Program, funded by the Australian Government’s National Landcare Program, Kirsten spent three years looking at the effectiveness of bioreactors in managing pesticide run-off in intensive horticulture. She was also able to set up a second project which compared the soil health in conventional and regenerative blueberry farms.
March 19, 2024 18:00 - 38 minutes - 52.5 MBProfessor Kirsten Benkendorff is the Director of Southern Cross University’s National Marine Science Centre and the Deputy Director of the Marine Ecology Research Centre. Her research looks at the impacts of ocean climate change and environmental contaminants on the immune health and nutritional quality of seafood species. She is also investigating the use of marine molluscs for human medicine. Professor Benkendorff has published more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and also teaches int...
Leading a movement with Lorraine Gordon
December 05, 2019 08:00 - 29 minutes - 27.3 MBToday, on Ground Cover, Kerry is joined by Lorraine Gordon, a beef cattle trader from Ebor who is also Director of Strategic Projects at Southern Cross University, founder of the National Regenerative Agriculture Alliance based out of Southern Cross University and currently working on her PHD in Regen Ag. In this conversation we explore what drives in this incredible woman to take on so many challenging projects and we announce a world first University degree in the Regenerative Agriculture...
Stay tuned... this series of Ground Cover is not quite over yet.
November 05, 2019 08:00 - 1 minute - 1.5 MBStay tuned... this series of Ground Cover is not quite over yet. We'll be taking a short break for a couple of weeks, then we'll be back with a big announcement that you won't want to miss. In the meantime, join the conversation on social media via our facebook page, and you can join our email list by emailing [email protected]
Regenerating soils and communities with Helen and Mike McCosker
October 29, 2019 08:00 - 35 minutes - 33 MBKerry talks with Helen and Mike McCosker about the important of regenerating not only soil, but also communities. The McCosker family run Angus on a 3000 acre mixed farming enterprise at Wallangra, north of Inverell. Helen is a CPA with senior management experience working in the large corporate space. A passion for the arts and music. Mike is a fourth generation farmer with extensive experience in carbon farming and teaching farmers about soil health and regenerative agriculture. He was on...
The five landscape functions in practice with livestock producer Tim Wright
October 22, 2019 08:00 - 33 minutes - 31.3 MBToday on Ground Cover, our host Kerry Cochrane, explores the five landscape functions and how they play out on Tim Wright's property. Tim is a livestock producer, and holistic management farmer, from Armidale on the Northern Tablelands of NSW. The Wrights are a pioneering family of the New England, Tim bucked the traditional farming approach of his ancestors to go where many were not brave enough to go. A holistic farmer in the true sense, who questioned traditional practices, and ventured ...
Out of the ashes with multi species pasture cropping expert Col Seis
October 15, 2019 08:00 - 24 minutes - 22.9 MBToday, Kerry chats with Colin Seis; a mixed farmer from the Gulgong area of New South Wales. Col has come from a traditional cropping and grazing family and experienced an ecological crash back in the 1970s. This set them up to be quite vulnerable to the bushfires that came afterwards. In those fires, Col lost everything and was badly burned. He had rebuild everything from the ground up. And he started to think about the future survival of himself, his family and his farm. So his focus qui...
From little things big things grow with 6th generation farmer Michael Taylor
October 08, 2019 08:00 - 29 minutes - 27.2 MBOn Ground Cover today, Kerry is joined by Michael Taylor, a sixth generation wool producer from Kentucky, on the Northern Tablelands of NSW. Michael's family were one of the original settlers of the New England region. His parents, John and Vicky Taylor, discovered the real causes of the New England die back problem. The family tradition of experimentation and continuous learning is certainly instilled in Michael's approach to farming. Michael is our Agroforestry champion; diversifying his ...
It all starts with the soil with Derek Smith
October 01, 2019 09:00 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MBToday, Kerry chats with Derek Smith, a mixed farmer from Guyra who has come along the journey from conventional to regenerative farmer. Derek started his days at the Orange Ag college and over the years experienced a number of problems on his property from crop health issues, animal health issues, weeds, fungal diseases, and insects and pests. Derek was always on the look out for a silver bullet that just wasn't there. So, Derek found himself asking some pretty critical questions of himself...
From bare paddock to diverse landscape with Bruce Maynard: No Kill Cropping, Self Herding and grazing management
September 24, 2019 09:00 - 36 minutes - 33.6 MBToday, Kerry Cochrane talks with Bruce Maynard, a mixed farmer from Narromine, NSW, who was a conventional farmer, direct drilling for a decade or so, before making the switch to regenerative practices. From bare paddocks to diversity, from nature to nurture, this is a conversation exploring the journey that has seen Bruce affectionately known as 'the King of no kill cropping'. This the story of a man who was not happy with the notion of taking everything, other than what you were trying t...
The regenerative agriculture revolution with Dr Charles Massy
September 17, 2019 09:00 - 35 minutes - 32.8 MBToday, on Ground Cover, Kerry Cochrane speaks to renown author and regenerative farming revolutionary, Dr Charles Massy; a well known grazier from Cooma in the southern Snowies of NSW. A man, who through a paradigm shift in a very tough drought, realised his ignorance as a conventional and industrial farmer, to go on and become a famous author and academic. In this episode Charlie talks about: the time for change being ripe and farmers being intimate with their own landscape and environmen...
An introduction to Ground Cover - a series exploring the trials and tribulation of the regenerative agriculture revolution
September 17, 2019 09:00 - 4 minutes - 4.71 MBWelcome to the introductory episode of Ground Cover – a podcast for farmers by farmers. This podcast is brought you by the Regenerative Agriculture Alliance, in partnership with Southern Cross University. Ground Cover is a uniquely Australian series exploring real-life stories of land managers who have undertaken the transition from conventional farming to regenerative agriculture. Each week the Regenerative Agriculture Alliance will bring you a unique and honest conversation about the ch...