Stuart Granger spent 35 years at the top of the food industry - including as CEO of George Weston Foods, one of Australasia's largest food manufacturers. Then he walked away to move cattle three to five times a day on a regenerative property in Victoria's Macedon Ranges. This is why he did it, and what he's learned.

In this episode, we sit down with Stuart at Lemah Park, a 150-acre regenerative farm nestled between the Macedon and Cobaw Ranges, about an hour northeast of Melbourne. Stuart runs Red Angus cattle and Ryeland sheep using adaptive multi-paddock grazing - no pesticides, no artificial fertilisers. The results are measurable: thriving insect diversity, healthy soils, and cattle with coats that, as our host puts it, simply glow.

Stuart talks candidly about what a career feeding millions of Australians taught him about the food system - and what it didn't prepare him for when he arrived on the land. He reflects on why profitability is the wrong first metric for a regenerative farm, what five-year average cash flow actually means in practice, and why soil carbon is the number he watches most closely.

We also explore the research happening at Lemah Park: a completed Deakin University biodiversity study comparing regenerative versus conventional grazing across the fence, plus two long-term projects with Melbourne Water/RMIT and the federal government's national farm soil health assessment.

For those dreaming of making a similar move, Stuart offers a clear-eyed take: know what you're getting into, start with humility, don't copy someone else's system, and - crucially - you don't need to own a farm to get started.

🌱 Lemah Park: https://www.lemahpark.com.au
🌱 GROW Regenerative Farming Festival: https://growfestival.au
🌱 Farm Change on Substack: https://farmchange.substack.com

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