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CarbonSessions[FOCUS] Grazing Lightly Farming with Kate FieldEpisode Summary: This segment is from a longer episode featuring Kate Field, a regenerative farmer from Tasmania, Australia.In this episode, we explore sustainable farming practices focusing on low-input systems to avoid overgrazing and carbon leakage. Emphasizing the importance of resting pastures and maintaining continuous plant growth, we discuss methods like holistic grazing to enhance soil health and carbon sequestration. This approach not only nurtures soil microbiology but also optimizes pasture recovery and organic carbon content, illustrating a harmonious balance with nature's rhythm.To listen to the full episode go here.To find...
2024-02-0604 minCarbonSessions[FOCUS] Carbon Positive Farming with Kate FieldEpisode Summary: This segment is from a longer episode featuring Kate Field, a regenerative farmer from Tasmania, Australia.A fascinating common thread unites our guest Kate and hosts Brian and Katherine: beyond their shared dedication to environmental stewardship, they all engage in regenerative farming with a focus on goat breeding.To listen to the full episode go here.To find out about Kate’s farm, check out https://www.leapfarm.com.au/Resources mentioned in the episode:Let’s Have a Think: Regenerative FarmingJosh Spodek Website...
2023-12-1207 minCarbonSessionsCarbon Positive Farming with Kate FieldEpisode Summary: In this episode, Katherine and Brian discuss regenerative agriculture with Kate Field, a Climate Positive farmer from Tasmania, Australia10 years ago, Kate Field and her husband Ian bought a farm in Tasmania to raise goats. Their mission is to produce the highest quality food and improve the ecology of the landscape while ensuring the best health and happiness of their animals.In this wide-ranging conversation, Kate, Katherine, and Brian share their experience with goat breeding and share ideas and experiences with regenerative agriculture, limits of reforestation, carbon capture, ecological footprint, methane, labels and...
2022-11-181h 13
The Curious FarmerLearning from RANT with Safe to Fail ExperimentsMore information about the Regenerative Agriculture Network of Tasmania (RANT) can be found on their website or Facebook page. The AGM is being held on 18th September 2021, and a farm tour demonstrating what one farmer has achieved through the practice he has learnt with RANT on September 26th.The Tasmanian Landcare Action Grants Program can be found through the TFGA website.Kate would love it if you could rate or review this podcast, and if you like it, share with your curious colleagues, farmers and friends. If you want to see some pictures of Leap F...
2021-09-1012 minThe Curious FarmerA Positive Carbon StoryIain has a background in ecology, being award his PhD in 2005. He successfully completed 2 post-docs, and was most recently a lecturer ay Macquarie University, where he gave a birds eye view and whole of systems approach to landscape function, including agriculture to the students. He has taken this view and applied it to Leap Farm.After talking to A/Prof Matt Harrison in the last episode, he was inspired to complete a carbon audit of our farm, discovering that we sequester at least as much as 3 times more carbon than we emit. He did this through utilising t...
2021-06-1333 minThe Curious FarmerAngus's ArkAngus Stewart is a Horticulturalist with vision, experience and generosity. He shares his wisdom and knowledge freely with us on this episode, and discusses methods such as deep planting and how to create the right environment for tree planting and ongoing maintenance.You can discover more of Angus's knowledge, tips and tricks at his website Gardening With Angus, and follow him on Instagram where he provides regular nuggets of juicy info on worm farming, composting, Kangaroo Paw management and more.You can contact Kate with any questions or feedback on email at thecuriousfarmer@gmail.com...
2021-05-0553 minThe Curious FarmerQ&A with Kate - The Leap Farm goat dairy systemLeap Farm dairy system:Once a day milking (in the mornings)All kids kept with their mothers throughout the season (during the day)The mothers and kids are drafted apart in the evening, with all of them shedded at night on a composting hay floor (deep litter system) that provides heat (like an electric blanket)Kids are given a small amount of milk every morning (with a cuddle) for the first 6 weeks of lifeKids naturally wean from their mothers over the course of the seasonThe males and the females who lines aren't desirable for the milking herd are...
2021-03-2420 min
10X VisionKate Field [2 of 2]: ER Doctor's Actionable Insights on Business & Health Care SolutionsSide hustle is a popular term nowadays, but how exactly do you go to build one? How do you use your skills from your professional training to run your own side hustle or business? How to have a career & business on parallel tracks? What about the health care system we have learned to care about during the pandemic?On today's episode, Kate shares all that and more. In particular:How to use the 3rd base position for making business decisionsWhy she becomes emotional when facing her own mortalityDo doctors and frontline workers have mental health supportsWhy...
2020-04-2950 min
10X VisionKate Field [1 of 2]: ER Doctor & Farm Owner on Careers, Health Care & FoodKate Field is an emergency doctor in Tasmania, Australia. She also trains ER doctors while running a farm with her husband, Iain Field (a PhD himself). Kate's interview is released in two parts.In today's episode (part 1), Kate shares her inspiration in medicine, her choice in becoming an emergency doctor instead of a surgeon, and her decision to own and run a farm with her husband. Did her work and social circles think she's crazy to make such a move? She also shares how her early financial habits and decisions with her husband had allowed th...
2020-04-2234 min
Better Business FounderRunning a Farm to Get the Best Milk to Make the Best Cheese by Kate Field (part 2)https://www.leapfarm.com.au/Host: Leekei TangContact: hello (at) betterbusinessfounder.comMusic credits: Mister Sunny Face by Wayne Jones / Blue Skies by Silent Partner / Happy Ukulele by Scott Holmes
2020-03-0843 min
Better Business FounderRunning a Farm to Get the Best Milk to Make the Best Cheese by Kate Field (part 1)To connect with Kate https://www.leapfarm.com.au/Host: Leekei TangContact: hello (at) betterbusinessfounder.comMusic credits: Mister Sunny Face by Wayne Jones / Blue Skies by Silent Partner / Happy Ukulele by Scott Holmes
2020-02-2730 min