Soils For Life
The Soils for Life podcast brings you the voices of farmers around Australia who are regenerating our precious soils and landscapes.
In each episode we share the stories of farmers who are discovering ways to farm with nature, and explore how we can all help more farmers to head in this direction, for healthier food, humans and planet.
These stories show how resilient, regenerated soils and landscapes can support profitable food-producing businesses, thriving and resilient people and regional communities, and abundant and nutritious food.
Produced by Grow Love Project and Soils for Life.
- Update frequency
- every 44 days
- Average duration
- 40 minutes
- Episodes
- 28
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Weeds are telling us something - are we listening?
The industrialisation of agriculture has created large paddocks of monoculture crops and increased the chemical burden on farmers and their environments. Global herbicide use has continued to increas…
Farmer led research – embracing complexity
Agricultural scientific research is really good at honing in on specific issues in the sector to investigate targeted solutions. But nature doesn’t always work that way. A fundamental principle of re…
Next Generation Farming Matters
Australian agriculture currently has a labour shortage of over 100,000 people. It’s not an easy gig for someone to start from scratch on a farm and many younger generation farmers are moving from far…
Working Together And Navigating Environmental Markets
The 8 families farmer group formed more than a decade ago after a holistic management course. Since then, the group has evolved and experienced transitions in all the businesses and families.
In this…
The Missing Middle: Farming Trees for Conservation and Profit
Farmer, forester or conservationist. It might seem like you need to choose one but more and more landholders are challenging this. With the right management, trees on farms can provide better farm pr…
Compost ain't compost
There are millions of hectares of degraded soils in Australia's agricultural landscapes. But there are a billion reasons why compost offers a solution to this problem, teeming with micro-organisms an…
The Great Soil Carbon Catalyst?
How could the emerging market for soil carbon support farmers to regenerate soils?
Soil carbon offers so many benefits both above and below the soil surface, from improving farm productivity to reven…
Soils For Life Trailer
This is Soils For Life. A podcast about connecting farmers, researchers and policy makers, to shed light on agricultural best practice and explore current policy barriers and mindsets that are gettin…