National food awards, 10t/ha increases of soil carbon and nitrate levels now undetectable. These are results that’ll open your mind to what Coromandel drystock farmer Ewan Campbell has to say about his discoveries.National food awards, 10t/ha increases of soil carbon and nitrate levels now undetectable. These are results that’ll open your mind to what Northland drystock farmer Ewan Campbell has to say about his discoveries.Ewan’s journey started with helping his dad turn a peat swamp into a farm. Right across the railway from top-in-the-country dairy land that he wished he had.Moving to a drystock farm in Waihi with little in his pockets, Ewan started trialing alternatives. This included the un-tapped power of electromagnetism through the soil. This is definitely an episode that will charge your brain cells!🪴&nbsp;Quorum Sense website (www.quorumsense.org.nz)🤙 Quorum Sense Farming Network Facebook Group👣 The Quorum Sense Podcast🦋 Quorum Sense Facebook page🌸 Quorum Sense Instagram✨&nbsp; Quorum Sense NewsletterDisclaimer: The information, opinions and ideas presented in this content is for information purposes only and does not constitute professional advice. Any reliance on the content provided is done at your own risk (<a href="https://www.quorumsense.org.nz/disclaimer" rel="noopener...

Growing up in California, Phyllis Tichinin witnessed the abundance of local fruit orchards and their deep, rich soils begin to be concreted into what is now Silicon Valley.After meeting her Kiwi husband, Phyllis now resides in Hawke’s Bay and is well-known as an eco-nutritionist with a passion for regenerative farming practices that produce nutrient dense food.“If we get agriculture right, we get everything else right”.This is a conversation that you’ll find you can’t draw yourself away from as Phyllis stoutly highlights the links and parallels between human health and the health of our food systems.Enjoy the episode.“I am optimistic and I am humbled by what many farmers are willing to take on [despite] social pushback from neighbours and family…“…the risk that’s involved when you’re not doing the normal thing…so you can’t blame the weather or make excuses…and you become more responsible for your own results.”🪴&nbsp;Quorum Sense website (www.quorumsense.org.nz)🤙 Quorum Sense Farming Network Facebook Group👣 The Quorum Sense Podcast🦋 Quorum Sense Facebook page🌸 Quorum Sense Instagram✨&nbsp; Quorum Sense Newsletter2023 Quorum Sense

Infatuated by seeds turning into food as a young boy in his Poppa’s veggie garden, Brad Rudd has always had a desire to grow things. Despite growing up in the outskirts of Auckland.At first a senior shepherd on a ‘conventional’ farm in Hawke’s Bay, Brad then threw his hat over the wall and took on the role of manager of Motatapu Station – working for Nadia Lim’s Royalburn Station – in Central Otago.Brad’s experience and unique perspective has him understand and yet question the status quo. Breeding livestock resilience is his thing, and there’s nothing else he’d rather be doing!Enjoy the episode.“And I think either way I’m going to really get the value of that variety for the animals. So I’ll use the kale paddocks as the dry matter, the gut fill paddocks, and I’ll probably take them on and off the regen paddocks to almost like give them their vitamins, so to speak.”🪴&nbsp;Quorum Sense website (www.quorumsense.org.nz)🤙 Quorum Sense Farming Network Facebook Group👣 The Quorum Sense Podcast🦋 Quorum Sense Facebook page🌸 Quorum Sense Instagram✨&nbsp; Quorum Sense Newsletter2023 Quorum Sense

Australian farmer, podcaster and all-round regenerative advocate Charlie Arnott talks landscape healing, nutritionally dense food and the complexity and stresses of farm management. Whilst Charlie is grateful for the reference point his science background provided, it wasn’t helping integrate his personal values into farming. Not just bringing biodiversity and resilience to a sometimes challenging environment, but also engaging with people, having fun and being playful.He sees himself as a ‘grower of food’, is committed to living an authentic life and values stopping doing things as much as doing something different. And it all starts with the ‘paddock between your ears’!Enjoy the episode.The first place to change is the paddock between your ears. Getting gung-ho and buying equipment or applying tools big or small in the landscape at first is probably not what I’d suggest to do.Just to do the homework. Work out how adapting some different methods is going to fit with your budget, your resources, your temperament, your situation.Step into it lightly…and just align these potential practices with your values, and make sure they do align, and with your resources is really important.🪴&nbsp;Quorum Sense website (www.quorumsense.org.nz)🤙 Quorum Sense Farming Network Facebook Group👣 The Quorum Sense Podcast🦋 Quorum Sense Facebook page🌸 Quorum Sense Instagram✨&nbsp; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqa3dDSlJabUtBakNIR25TX29qLUVveWhlelREd3xBQ3Jtc0tudnRoVEpudGhISGVNMmtCMWs1QlNZSk9tdlh0emw1Wjd6b083SFdud2RFZ3N0aFp0TU9lRjE0a2ZfRUVEUFpEeHJVamM2YWVyUFZEdVE3WmdjMGFlaWd2enFTLS1zRjVLclVKUExRQVZqM0ttRGV6UQ&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.quorumsense.org.nz%2Fnewsletter&amp;v=m2vFi1Ba2nw" rel="noopener noreferrer"...

Cherryle Prew’s journey progressed from city office worker, to organic horticulture, to BioGro auditing. But her “aha!” moment and passion for soil biology was born at a talk by Elaine Ingham, founder of Soil Food Web worldwide.Boots and all, Cherryle set up NZ’s only Soil Food Web lab 20 years ago.From discussing compost teas, to the need for auditing and regulation being more educational and less ‘stick’, to commentary on past and present ways of growing food, this is a ‘grab a cup of tea, a biscuit, and tell a few stories’ kind of conversation.Enjoy the episode!🪴&nbsp;Quorum Sense website (www.quorumsense.org.nz)🤙 Quorum Sense Farming Network Facebook Group👣 The Quorum Sense Podcast🦋 Quorum Sense Facebook page🌸 Quorum Sense Instagram✨&nbsp; Quorum Sense Newsletter2023 Quorum Sense

The tables have turned for arable farmer Peter Legg, from initially learning off others’ knowledge and experience to now being someone others are learning from!

Father and daughter duo Shane Birchall and Meghan Schutt share their learnings and experiences in transitioning to a self-sufficient, low waste dairy and beef farm operation.

Canterbury farmer and Quorum Sense team member Sam Lang talks about the relationship between science and farmer experience, risk, and the importance of support networks.

New farm, new home, new partner, new baby! A whole lot has transformed for Jake Herron in the last two years. A real and refreshing story.

Winner at the 2022 New Zealand Sausage Awards, Canterbury sheep and beef farmer Adam Rivett talks about getting creative with farm enterprises to suit his context.