#107 It's a Transformation
With regenerative farming pioneer Dianne Haggerty
Dianne Haggerty probably doesn’t need an introduction these days. When last on the podcast for episode 68 around 18 months ago, I’d come to visit Di and husband Ian to learn about their world breakthrough regenerative farming operation. You’ll have heard them mentioned in a number of episodes since (and featured on ABC TV and elsewhere). Their natural intelligence ethos, fierce grace and incredible story of regeneration ignite the imagination. And their episode remains among the top 6 most listened to on this podcast. So when we were heading south from the Kimberley late last year, we dropped in again.
Dianne and Ian Haggerty, showing our young fella the ropes on one of the repaired headers (pic: Anthony James).
“It’s a transformation. We need a transformation in the whole way that we’re living and functioning as a society, don’t we? And our expectations of what our planet can provide for us. How do we look after it as custodians?”
Join us under the stars on a warm December evening, for a quick catch up on some of the brilliant and challenging aspects of their year. Their regeneration of country continues apace, but there’s a clarion call here too. And fittingly it has echoes of Petrine McCrohan in the previous episode, noting that one was recorded in the region of the Haggerty’s old haunt and their transformation.
This conversation was recorded on 23 December 2021.
Click on the photos below for full view, and hover over them for descriptions where they’ve been added (all pics by Anthony James).
Discover
To hear my extended conversation with Di and Ian back on the farm in 2020, and see a range of links and photos, head to episode 68.
The influential Textile Exchange Report, hot off the press, that the Haggerty’s were engaged extensively in: ‘Regenerative Agriculture Landscape Analysis’.
And my young fella did his own podcast episode with Di, so of course I’m including that link here too! ‘How do you harvest all this (and can I drive the harvesting machine)?’ (or on Spotify, episode 8)
Music
The System, by The Public Opinion Afro Orchestra.
Stones & Bones, by Owls of the Swamp.
Rockin’ in the 80s, by Dr Sparkles (sourced from the Free Music Archive).