{"id":23547,"date":"2025-03-12T06:32:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T19:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/midlandexpress.com.au\/?p=23547"},"modified":"2025-03-11T17:05:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T06:05:29","slug":"crowd-turns-out-for-grow-festival-of-regenerative-food-and-farming-at-kyneton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralvic.com\/midlandexpress.com.au\/latest-news\/2025\/03\/12\/crowd-turns-out-for-grow-festival-of-regenerative-food-and-farming-at-kyneton\/","title":{"rendered":"GROW festival exceeds expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A crowd of more than 560 people attended the GROW Festival of Regenerative Food and Farming at Kyneton Racecourse last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The inaugural one-day conference and field day was a community project by Macedon Ranges Regenerative Farmers, part of the not-for-profit Macedon Ranges Sustainability Group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The organisers aim was to bring people together to achieve a brighter, healthier, climate-adaptive and more profitable future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The keynote speaker was US documentary filmmaker Peter Byck of Carbon Cowboys. Byck spoke to festival goers about his new doco series <em>Roots So Deep<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Other speakers included Canadian soil scientist Joel Williams, social researcher in agriculture Professor Ruth Nettle, forester among farmers Rowan Reid, Nuffield scholar and carbon-neutral wool producer Colette Glazik, pasture agronomist Jade Killoran and many more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Mount Alexander Sustainability Group representative Deane Belfield was among those to attend and told the <em>Express<\/em> it exceeded expectations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>He was delighted to do a presentation about the Mt Alexander Regenerative Agriculture Group project. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>&#8220;MASG, MARAG and my small business Regenerative Australian Farmers also had a stall and we hosted a number soil test demonstrations and talks on various topics which were well received.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Deane is an advocate of including regenerative agriculture as a key strategy for any community seeking to achieve Zero Net Emissions through soil carbon sequestration. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>&#8220;MARAG was initiated in May 2019 and has grown from 20 landholders to more than 70, covering over 16,000 hectares.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/midlandexpress.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/cGrow110325-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/centralvic.com\/midlandexpress.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/cGrow110325-2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/centralvic.com\/midlandexpress.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/cGrow110325-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/centralvic.com\/midlandexpress.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/cGrow110325-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/centralvic.com\/midlandexpress.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/cGrow110325-2-696x522.jpg 696w, https:\/\/centralvic.com\/midlandexpress.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/cGrow110325-2-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/centralvic.com\/midlandexpress.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/cGrow110325-2-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>Australian Holistic Management Co-operative exhibitor Helen Lewis is pictured with Australian Regenerative Farmers representative Tom Nicholas and business partner and MASG and MARAG member Deane Belfield. 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