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Australian farmer, podcaster and all-round regenerative advocate Charlie Arnott talks landscape healing, nutritionally dense food and the complexity and stresses of farm management. Whilst Charlie is grateful for the reference point his science background provided, it wasn’t helping integrate his personal values into farming. Not just bringing biodiversity and resilience to a sometimes challenging environment, but also engaging with people, having fun and being playful. He sees himself as a ‘grower of food’, is committed to living an authentic life and values stopping doing things as much as doing something different. And it all starts with the ‘paddock between your ears’! Enjoy the episode. The first place to change is the paddock between your ears. Getting gung-ho and buying equipment or applying tools big or small in the landscape at first is probably not what I’d suggest to do.Just to do the homework. Work out how adapting some different methods is going to fit with your budget, your resources, your temperament, your situation.Step into it lightly…and just align these potential practices with your values, and make sure they do align, and with your resources is really important.🪴 Quorum Sense website (www.quorumsense.org.nz) 🤙 Quorum Sense Farming Network Facebook Group 👣 The Quorum Sense Podcast 🦋 Quorum Sense Facebook page 🌸 Quorum Sense Instagram ✨ Quorum Sense Newsletter 2023 Quorum Sense
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