Farm change is a documentary style interview series sitting down with the people who left the old world behind and built something real on the land. Every episode is an honest conversation with a working regenerative farmer – what it actually took, what it costs, and what it's worth. If you've ever thought about stepping off the treadmill and building a life around land and food, these are the people who already did it.
From Hailstorm to $1M Bottling Line: The Business Story Behind a 70-Year Apple Orchard
Nick Russo is the third generation of his family to run Bellevue Orchard, a 40-hectare apple and cider operation 45 kilometres from Melbourne's CBD that his grandfather Angelo started in 1953. In this conversation with Romey, Nick shares the full business story behind one of Australia's most interesting urban fringe farms. From the 1998 hailstorm that forced the family to choose between selling the property or installing an apple juicing plant, to a million-dollar bottling line, five revenue ...
10 May 2026
From Lawyer and Podcaster to Regenerative Farmer: Matt Wong's Unplanned Journey
Matt Wong did not plan to be a farmer. He planned to hire one. Three years later, he is the one fixing pumps in 40-degree heat, moving cattle, and running a 150-acre regenerative property outside Melbourne with a co-ownership model he built from scratch. In this conversation with Romey, Matt shares the full arc of how a successful lawyer, business owner, and host of the Discernible podcast ended up with mud on his boots and a water problem he cannot stop thinking about. COVID was the catalys...
22 Apr 2026
How One Farmer Rebuilt Soil Health and Tripled Lamb Revenue in Victoria
What happens when a sixth-generation farmer inherits degraded land with a soil pH of 4.5 - and decides to fix it without a single bag of synthetic fertiliser? John Stewart of Macedon Ranges Lamb shares the full story: from a superphosphate addiction that was slowly bankrupting the land, to a thriving regenerative lamb business selling 900 animals a year at three times commodity value, direct to consumers at farmers markets across Victoria. In this conversation, John unpacks the science behin...
19 Apr 2026
From Food Company CEO to Regenerative Farmer: Stuart Granger's Story
Stuart Granger spent 35 years at the top of the food industry - including as CEO of George Weston Foods, one of Australasia's largest food manufacturers. Then he walked away to move cattle three to five times a day on a regenerative property in Victoria's Macedon Ranges. This is why he did it, and what he's learned. In this episode, we sit down with Stuart at Lemah Park, a 150-acre regenerative farm nestled between the Macedon and Cobaw Ranges, about an hour northeast of Melbourne. Stuart ru...
12 Apr 2026
From Brunswick Painter to Permaculture Farmer - Matt Daniele's 30-Year Journey to Peace Farm
How does a working-class kid from Brunswick become a permaculture farmer in the Yarra Valley, with no farming background, no land, and no plan? Matt Daniele's answer spans 30 years, a shiatsu vision in Melbourne, solo hiking in Tasmania, WWOOFing on organic farms across England and Costa Rica, and co-founding Australia's first certified organic heirloom seedling nursery at CERES. This is one of the most honest, grounded conversations we've had on Farm Change. Matt doesn't romanticise the jou...
5 Apr 2026
From Chicken Factory to Community Hub: Regenerative Living in the Yarra Valley
Chelsea has been running ECOSS, a 17-acre community environment hub in Wesburn, Victoria, for over a decade. She also lives at Moora Moora Co-operative Community, one of Australia's oldest intentional communities. In this conversation, she shares what it actually takes to build regenerative community infrastructure: the failures, the grants, the asbestos, and the $50,000 nursery order that never got paid. This is one of the most honest conversations we've had about the business side of not-f...
30 Mar 2026
Micro Abattoirs - Ethical Meat, Pastured Pigs | Tammi Jonas
Micro abattoirs are a missing link in the global push for ethical meat, animal welfare, and resilient local food systems. In this long-form interview, Tammi Jonas of Jonai Farm (near Daylesford, Victoria, Australia) explains why access to slaughter and processing is the real bottleneck - and how farmer-led models like “community-supported slaughter” can change the game. This episode connects the dots between: Micro abattoirs, mobile slaughter units, and on-farm slaughter (what they are and w...
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