Vocal About Local

Grown Not Flown
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Vocal About Local Podcast

Vocal About Local is a podcast by Grown Not Flown. It's all about celebrating local -  local farmers, local produce, local communities. Join us as we interview a really diverse range of guests from lots of different industries with the aim to cross pollinate information, and share knowledge and stories so we can all grow together. 

  1. MAY 10

    QUICK FIVE with Kimberley Furness - celebrating regional and rural women and their businesses

    This is a non-hostile takeover - while you're regular podcast hosts are away, Nikki is coming out to play... well, maybe not play, but to host a mini-series called the QUICK FIVE - as part of this series Nikki will ask her guests 5 quick questions about business and life. 😎In this episode Nikki chats with Kimberley Furness, the award winning Editor and Founder of OAK Magazine, and chart topping podcast host of A Friend of Mine and She Makes News. Kimberley was the 2022 Agrifutures Rural Women...

    27 min

  2. MAY 1

    QUICK FIVE with Nadine Brown - we chat business, sustainability, floristry and flowers

    This is a non-hostile takeover - while you're regular podcast hosts are away, Nikki is coming out to play... well, maybe not play, but to host a random little mini-series called the QUICK FIVE - as part of this series Nikki will ask her guests 5 fast questions about business and life. 😎 In this episode Nikki chats with Nadine Brown, founder of the The Ivy Institute. Nadine started her floral journey over 30 years ago and is a seasoned business professional with a background in marketing, busi...

    22 min

  3. APR 24

    Not "Just a Farmer" - meet Leila McDougall the farmer turned film maker tackling on-farm mental health through both storytelling and film

    Having grown up on a farm Leila McDougall finished school, and headed straight to the big city lights of Sydney to study fashion design. Home on the farm was never far from her thoughts though with fashion being a pathway brought about from years on the sheep farm and a want to use the Australian Wool she was so familiar with. The Big Smoke charm wore off though and it wasn't long before the country came calling, with Leila settling down with now husband in down in rural NE Victoria.In ...

    1h 9m

  4. APR 17

    Living Our Values - Sustainable floristry and supporting locally grown flowers with Ellen Douglas from Botany Melbourne

    Having recently collaborated with Grown Not Flown and collected a Bronze Medal at the 2024 Melbourne Flower and Garden Show with a sustainable exhibit that ended with only 1 small piece of plastic from some chicken wire being the only thing to go into waste; we sit down to chat with Ellen Douglas, the tour de force behind Botany Melbourne. Ellen is an apprentice trained florist who in 2020 went solo and created Botany as a alternative to conventional floristry. In Ellen's own word...

    1h 0m

  5. APR 10

    Award winning honey and Australian grown Juniper - Meet Lucy from Australian High Country Honey

    In this weeks episode we chat with Lucy Vincent who along with partner Bruce, runs Australian High Country Honey. Lucy's family farm was purchased in 1976 & has been subject to sustainable farming practices in order to improve the landscape health & biodiversity, farm profitability & the ability to cope with natural adversity of drought, fire & flood. With recent succession to the next generation, Lucy is working hard to integrate juniper & bioactive honey production into ...

    59 min

  6. APR 3

    "Meat" Jacob Wolki - Regenerative Farmer and Unstaffed 24/7 Butcher Shop Owner.

    Jacob Wolki and his namesake Wolki Farm describes itself as the connector between the conscientious consumer and quality produce. Its safe to say that Jacob and his family have been on quite the journey over the last decades, brought about initially by Jacob's health and taking over the counter medications focussed on treating symptoms as opposed to curing whatever it was that wrong with him. Becoming obsessed only to then realise he was finding answers but then having more questio...

    1h 8m

  7. MAR 27

    Permaculture with Hannah Maloney from Gardening Australia

    Hannah Maloney has perhaps the most enviable job in the world - and she knows it - as a presenter on Gardening Australia which she calls a "dream gig". Hannah's journey to the small screen however started in, inner city Brisbane where her parents had a small herb nursery. Leaving this behind at 18, Hannah travelled the country (and world) ending up right back where she started - working on small scale farms and this led her to the world of permaculture. Hannah now lives in a pink ho...

    49 min

  8. FEB 14

    "I'll never forget that - I cried then too"- Business Lessons with Katie Arena from Little Lyndoch Flower Farm and The Queens Quarters

    There are lots of pretty instagram accounts - but one that stands out more than most is Little Lyndoch Flower Farm. But it didn't start instantly with pretty flowers and a landscaped flower farm.In this week's episode we are lucky to speak with Katie Arena who runs Little Lyndoch Flower Farm and The Queens Quarters with her partner Rob. Katie takes us from her lack of enjoyment in the Corporate world in 2016 to going all in and backing herself to create her dream. From renting without a ...

    1h 1m
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Vocal About Local is a podcast by Grown Not Flown. It's all about celebrating local -  local farmers, local produce, local communities. Join us as we interview a really diverse range of guests from lots of different industries with the aim to cross pollinate information, and share knowledge and stories so we can all grow together. 

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  • Creator
    Grown Not Flown
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2024
  • Episodes
    26
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2024 GNF Group Pty Ltd
  • Show Website
    Vocal About Local

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