The Naked Farmers Podcast
By Sophie Love
We all need to eat. Every day. Whether you are omnivore, vegetarian, vegan, paleo, the human body still needs food. Which means that farmers are essential to our lives. But who are the people who grow and raise food & fibre in Australia? How is it grown? What are the misconceptions, controversies, points of contention between eaters and growers? We ask all these questions and more as we endeavour to build a bridge from the country to the city and help people who like to eat understand the processes and people involved in the food on their plate and the clothes on their back. We don't shy away from the hard or controversial and we paint a picture of life on the land with every guest farmer, exploring all the different ways of farming in this wide brown land, the challenges of climate change & drought and the changing faces of both eating and farming. Come along for the ride!
Latest episode
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PATRICE NEWELL, BIODYNAMICS IN A CLIMATE EMERGENCY
What is Biodynamic Farming? Is it woo woo? And how did a city slicker TV presenter become farmer of 10,000 acres in the heart of t... -
WHY YOU SHOULD GIVE A FUCK ABOUT FARMING with Gabrielle Chan
Gabrielle Chan has been a journalist for over 30 years, and a farmer's wife for almost that long too. Ex Politics Live Blogger a... -
BRAD MILLSTEED - Western Australian wheat, sheep and the #6Bs - tackling male mental health one BBQ at a time
Brad is a down to earth farmer, an 'average bloke', who explains cropping in dry WA country, merino sheep and the joy of a good... -
Another Climate Catastrophe - NSW FLOODS
It never rains, but it pours! Sophie relays her experience of the NSW Floods of March 2021 and shares an interview with BBC 5 Live wit... -
ALL ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH - An in depth discovery with Psychotherapist & Counsellor Guy Vicars
What is good Mental Health? How do we achieve it? And what should we do if we are struggling? This is a deep dive into the basic tenets... -
DROUGHT & FIRE, one woman's heartrending story of 2019
Host Sophie Love opens a vein and shares, in heartbreaking detail, her family's losses in the Drought of 2019. Then, when they wer... -
JON ELDER - Cotton Farming & Australia's first & largest solar hybrid irrigation pump
What happens when a globe trotting ex Rio Tinto mining executive brings his new bride back to the family farm? We learn all about... -
ANGUS WHYTE - Getting the balance right.
Gus is a man who knows himself, admits his failings & lessons learnt. A gentle soul who tries to get the balance right between farm... -
JAMES STACEY - 2018 Nuffield Scholar - Deep thinking on food & water security in Oz
James was a dairy farmer until $1 a litre milk, now he makes hay while the sun shines on his peri urban farm on the outskirts of Adelai... -
NYSSA CURRIN - a 5th generation farmer on a 38,000 acre Station in Julia Creek, Queensland
Nyssa describes her landscape and love of country, the devastating floods of 2019 and her family history since early settlement. After...