2025
 12 - 16 February
Wed 12th - Bus Tour 
Thu 13th - Main Event
Fri 14th - Nicole Masters Workshop
Sat, Sun 15-16th - Jim Elizondo Course
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BOOTS ON THE GROUND, HANDS IN THE SOIL EVENT

GRASSROOTS FESTIVAL

Grassroots Festival is an immersive Tasmanian Sustainable Farming Festival hosted by Gunningham Family Farms in North West Tasmania. With diverse workshops, interactive demonstrations and expert led sessions.

The first Grassroots Festival in February 2024 was a great success. We are super excited to announce to be back with another Grassroots festival in 2025! Once again the two day event will be covering a range of topics including, soil health, alternative and diverse pasture species, livestock health, farm forestry, financial health, farmers stories, carbon and renewable energy.
grassroots festival participants engaged in an immersive on field experience
12 - 16 February 2025
Including various demonstration sites hosted by experts to provide interpretation.
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Our speakers

NICOLE
MASTERS

Since 1999 Nicole has been involved in regenerative food systems. Throughout her 20+ years as an educator, nothing excites Nicole more than passing on her passion for regenerative soil stewardship.
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JIM ELIZONDO

Jim is an Agronomist Engineer with financial knowledge specializing on beef and dairy cattle. In 1990, after buying his first irrigated farm he soon learned that it wasn’t going to make money following what he had learned in college...

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SAM 
BYE

Independent Agribusiness consultant, specialising in carbon farming strategy and implementation. Sam has worked across the agricultural input supply chain in sales, marketing, research agronomy and key account management. 
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NATALIE E WEST

Natalie E. West is an Integrative Psychotherapist and International Speaker with over 25 years of experience in transforming mental and metabolic health. 

Specializing in the mind-gut connection, her unique protocols address the root causes of poor self-image, anxiety, depression, addiction, food behaviours, and thought disorders.
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PETER BYCK

Peter Byck is a professor of practice at Arizona State University, in both the School of Sustainability and the Cronkite School of Journalism.

He is the director, producer and writer of carbon nation. 
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PHOTOS FROM 2024
Grassroots festival

drone photo showing grassroots festival participants in front of rocky cape tarvern
grassroots festival 2024 exhibitors
grassroots festival 2024 participants
listening to experts at grassroots festival 2024
amelia gunningham talking about sustainable beef at grassroots festival 2024
grassroots festival 2024 goers having lunch sitting on hay bale
talking about grass at grassroots festival 2024
preparing for farmers feast at grassroots festival 2024
kids sitting on hay bales at grassroots festival 2024
farmers feast at grassroots festival 2024
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