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How Soil Health Affects the Climate & Human Health
Healthy soil is far more than a farming issue—it sits at the heart of climate stability, food quality, water cycles, and human health.
Nourishing Australia, a not-for-profit Australian organisation founded by Vicki and Tim Poulter and ANF board member Dr Ron Ehrlich, has brought together an extraordinary lineup of leading scientists, regenerative farmers, and health
professionals to explore how soil health connects directly to the wellbeing of people and the planet.
Based on the full conference program, this in-depth course guides you through the critical relationships between soil, water, climate systems, agriculture, and health. You’ll gain a clearer understanding of how modern farming practices have contributed to environmental and health challenges—and, more importantly, what nature-based regenerative farming can do to restore balance.
Across a series of structured sessions, expert speakers share practical insights, scientific evidence, and real-world experience in regenerative agriculture, restoring the small water cycle including natural sequence farming, methane cycles, food systems, agricultural toxins and personal action steps you can take today.
This course is designed for anyone interested in the climate, landscape health, sustainable food systems, preventative health, and solutions that work with nature rather than against it.
The story you’ll explore:
- Why so many people – especially our children – are sick with asthma, allergies, autoimmune illnesses and more
- The role of healthy soil in regulating water, carbon, and climate systems
- How regenerative agriculture – including livestock – can create healthy soil
- How healthy soil and plants create the small water cycle which hydrates and cools the landscape, mitigating climate change, droughts, floods and fires
- Methane, livestock, and climate – separating facts from fear – cows can be part of the solution
- How healthy soil health produces nutrient-dense food without toxic chemicals.
- How farm chemicals affect the gut, brain and fertility
- Ancestral nutrition and how corporate interests have influenced the food guidelines
- The importance of nature in supporting health
- Practical actions individuals, communities, and farmers can take
Whether you’re a health practitioner, farmer, environmental advocate, or simply curious about the deeper connections between soil, climate, and health, this course offers a clear, evidence-based framework for understanding one of the most important conversations of our time.
Nourishing Australia is dedicated to educating people about the importance of nourishing our soils, water, plants, animals, communities and the planet. It is closely aligned with everything that the Price Pottenger ancestral foundation stands for.
CONFERENCE SPEAKERS & BIOs
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 and international (UN) level. “Stop just talking about emissions and focus on the water cycle!” His brilliant whiteboard presentations on soil, water, climate and the methane and cows myths 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 – i.e. the small water cycle which has been largely destroyed by industrial agriculture.
Stuart Andrews – 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, showing how healthy soil creates nourishing food, restores the land, supports animals, and feeds 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 trialling and implementing practices to improve the water cycles, fertility, and biodiversity in the landscape.
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 the 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.
Belinda Fettke describes herself as a health disruptor and change-agent challenging the health benefit claims of the last 50 years of low-fat, high-carb messaging and has done amazing research into the vested interests and religious ideology shaping our ‘plant-biased’ dietary and health guidelines.
Dr Max Gulhane – a practicing Australian Health-Optimizing Physician and health educator. Dr Max’s current focus of work includes metabolic disease reversal, circadian biology driven by the sun, low-carbohydrate and carnivore nutrition, fertility and pregnancy optimization, endocrine-disrupting chemicals, food system decentralization, and regenerative farming with an emphasis on Nguni cattle. (Recording)
Dr Matt Landos is 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. Sam is Education & Community Gardens Manager for WaterUps, a company transforming water-saving through wicking technology. Following his passion for teaching and the environment, he’s brought sustainability into classrooms, communities, and farms.
Cameos
Allan Savory
Costa Georgiadis
