GROUNDED Live

About GROUNDED Live

GROUNDED Festival is a cross between a farming conference and a food festival, held in a different farm location every year, so each festival is a unique, unmissable event celebrating local expertise and culture with an inspiring line up of speakers. With multiple stages running concurrently, it combines science and technology with ancient wisdom, provides a respectful place for lively discussion, an audience as interesting as the speakers and an excellent menu of local food, drinks and music, all on a beautiful, regeneratively-managed farm. Each year we record presentations and make them available, free for all, as a podcast called GROUNDED Live. We hope you enjoy the conversations.

Publisher

GROUNDED Festival

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

23 Nov 2025

Latest episode

19 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

5 of 72 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   19 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   GROUNDED Live - 2026: Rob Pekin - Food Hubs: The Messy Missing Middle

   Food systems pioneer Rob Pekin discusses the vital role of food hubs in building resilient and equitable food systems.

2. 

   19 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   GROUNDED Live - 2026: Clara Coleman & James McLennan - There's No Off-Season

   American farmer Clara Coleman and Australian farmer James McLennan discuss the year-round demands and strategies of regenerative agriculture in this interview.

3. 

   19 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   GROUNDED Live - 2026: Steven Chen & Felice Jacka - Food & Mood: You Are What You Eat

   Professor Felice Jacka and Dr. Steven Chen discuss the profound connection between food and mood, revealing how diet impacts our well-being in this interview.

Inside a recent episode

GROUNDED Live - 2026: Rob Pekin - Food Hubs: The Messy Missing Middle

Published 19 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] The one we're designing in Adelaide is going to have a big fresh fruit and food component. They can have a mixture of all of those sort of things. But that was probably a missing piece for us as we developed Food Connect is we were thinking fresh food when we first started in 2005, but eventually a whole bunch of makers came to us and said we're made an amazing ginger beer, can you sell it to us? Or can you sell it for us, be our first test to the market? So a low-processed, high-value product made locally and then sold locally. So the sourcing of it is really critical through that sourcing policy that I mentioned before, which is to the whole globe. […]

Who has been a guest on GROUNDED Live

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Rob Pekin
• Clara Coleman
• James McLennan
• Felice Jacka
• Steven Chen

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Books guests

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