Nourishing Australia presents: How Soil Health Affects the Climate & Human Health
Saturday, November 1, 2025
Guthrie Theatre, UTS Ultimo, Sydney
CONCERNED ABOUT HEALTH? & CLIMATE CHANGE?
Nourishing Australia's day of ground-breaking talks and panels will explore how nature and regenerative farming - including grazing livestock - may hold the key!
Join leading scientists, regenerative farmers, and changemakers for a powerful one-day journey into nature and the hidden forces shaping the climate, your food, your health, and the future - and the role of corporate interests in dictating our choices
We will highlight the importance of going back to nature including the magic of the sun and the small water cycle - created when healthy soil absorbs the rain where it falls, stores the water, hydrates and cools the land and releases it via plants to form clouds and normal rain. Bare ground creates unhealthy soil and can lead to droughts, floods, fires and erosion and the need for chemicals to grow food which of course affects our health.
Join us to learn:
Why so many people – especially our children - are sick with asthma, allergies, autoimmune diseases and more
How nearly all food in supermarkets is grown with toxic chemicals
How farm chemicals affect your gut, brain, fertility & more
How regenerative farming can create healthy soil & produce nutrient dense food without herbicides & pesticides
How healthy soil & plants create the small water cycle which hydrates & cools the landscape - mitigating climate change, droughts, floods, fires & erosion
How small farms are disappearing, methane from cows is not the problem & how cows can be part of the solution
About ancestral nutrition, how corporate interests have driven food guidelines & how nature & sunlight can be powerful medicine
What you can do for your health & for climate solutions
WE ARE HONOURED TO HAVE AN EXCELLENT LINEUP OF SPEAKERS INCLUDING:
Cameos by Allan Savory - father of Holistic Management (using livestock to regenerate the land) and Costa Georgiadis from Gardening Australia
Walter Jehne - Internationally recognized soil microbiologist and climate scientist. He has immense field and research experience in soils, grasslands, agriculture and forests at local, national (CSIRO and Science Adviser to Australia’s National Soil Advocate), and international (UN) level. His brilliant blackboard/flip-chart presentations on soil, water, climate and methane and cows are legendary around the world.
Philip Mulvey -Specialist in soil and water chemistry, author of ‘Ground Breaking - Soil security and Climate Change’ which points out that whilst anthropogenic climate change is happening in parts of the world, we are addressing the wrong problem which, he says, is not just about Co2 emissions but water in the landscape – ie the small water cycle which has been destroyed by industrial agriculture.
Stuart Andrews -Stuart Andrews is a passionate regenerative farming educator and the son of the legendary Peter Andrews, the visionary behind Natural Sequence Farming (NSF). Carrying his father’s legacy forward, Stuart has evolved the system through hands-on teaching at Tarwyn Park Training. At Forage Farms, he demonstrates how healthy soil creates nourishing food, restoring the land, supporting animals, and feeding future generations.
Glenn Morris -Regenerative farmer who rode his horse across the Harbour Bridge to raise awareness of the ecological damage caused by land clearing because “vegetation is needed on farms to protect soils and rivers yet governments allow important native vegetation to be cleared more easily instead of supporting investment in the health of our country,”
Martin Royds - Regenerative farmer who has put into practice Natural Sequence farming and holistic management.. He has focused on trialing and implementing practices to improve the water cycles, fertility and biodiversity in the landscape.
Belinda Fettke - Belinda has done amazing research into the shocking story of the origin of our food guidelines which are driven by corporate interests and the real story about The Blue Zones. She is also a passionate supporter of ancestral nutrition and Regen Ag.
Dr Max Gulhane - a practicing Australian Health-Optimizing Physician and health educator. Dr Max’s current focus of work include metabolic disease reversal, circadian biology driven by the sun, low carbohydrate & carnivore nutrition, fertility & pregnancy optimization, endocrine disrupting chemicals, food system decentralization and regenerative farming with an emphasis on Nguni cattle.
Dr Ron Ehrlich -A leading holistic health advocate, holistic dentist, health coach and a director of Nourishing Australia and The Ancestral Nutrition Foundation, author of book “A Life Less Stressed” and podcaster. He is passionate about regenerative farming, having interviewed many greats including Allan Savory, Joel Salatin, Charlie Massey, Charlie Arnott, Fred Provenza and more.
Dr Matt Landos - A veterinary scientist, researcher, and passionate advocate for environmental health. With decades of experience in aquatic animal medicine and toxicology, he has uncovered alarming links between agricultural chemicals and ecosystem collapse and is now sounding the alarm for human health.
Sam Betteridge is an Urban Agro-ecologist and Regenerative Educator. His role as Education & Community Manager at Pocket City Farms, in the densely populated City of Sydney, is to teach people the importance and achievability of Urban Agricultural practices
REGISTER NOW - limited seats at venue - or if you are far-flung from Sydney you can book for online access. The talks will be filmed and available after the event.
Nourishing Australia is a Non-profit organization.
We are a small, registered charity. We raise awareness about the need to nourish our soils, water, plants, animals, people, and ultimately our planet. We educate about how Regenerative Farming, including livestock, can create healthy soil, mitigate climate change, and produce healthy nutrient-dense food. Over the years we have run events and supported groups and causes which align with our philosophy and aims including funds for Hope for Health in Arnhem Land, an ACNEM scholarship for a rural doctor, Farmers Footprint and more. If you are interested in supporting us with a tax-deductible donation or being a sponsor to help us with our work please contact us - we would be very grateful.
