Growing up, my incredible parents ran their own business, which is based on the principles that align with those of Regenerative Agriculture. The business, Resource Consulting Services (RCS), is still thriving 30+ years later, working with individuals, families, corporates and government groups, empowering them to grow productive, profitable agricultural businesses within regenerative landscapes.

I suspect this was what led me down the path of Naturopathy, as the principles of Natural medicine mirror many of those which underpin Regenerative Ag.

After school, I kept my inner gypsy very happy by travelling around and exploring the world before settling in Melbourne to study. After graduating in 2011, my husband and I moved back to sunny Queensland where I owned and operated a successful multi-modality wellness clinic, Gladstone Holistic Health; and in late 2015, I became a Mum (my proudest achievement yet!) and started a new business, Cultivating Wellness.

My husband and I now have two beautiful children and a small farm which allows is to play around with growing our own nutrient-dense, chemical-free food. It’s a work in progress, but our goal is to bring fertility to what was a depleted and barren landscape. We feel it’s our duty as custodians of the land we’re temporarily calling home.
More info about Stacey Curcio : www.cultivatingwellness.com.au

We are a family owned and run business specialising in designing multi-species cover crops, forages and custom made blend seed mixes. We plant 1500ac a year of these multi species blends intergrating our livestock operation as part of our soil health program on our 8500 ac cropping program.
Why We Help
We found from our own experience that cover crops are a low risk, low input way to get maximum production above and below the ground, providing great live weight and animal health gains. In addition, cover crops assist in building soil structure, water infiltration, soil biology, water holding capacity, disease and weed supression.
How We Do It
We source the highest quality bare seed that we can inoculate with worm juice and other microbes to enhance germination and quorm sensing between each species. By using a diversity of root architecture and root exudates, the multi-species are able to explore larger areas of soil, making them far more water and nutrient efficent. Each root system has its own unique ability to unlock and solubilise different minerals and nutrients. When put together in well designed mixes, plants will collaborate through quorum sensing and fungal associations to share and release these minerals and nutrients into the soil. This in turn can provide a greater nutrient density to the animals that graze it, resulting in all round gains and gives the earth a greater chance of sequestering and building soil carbon at depth.

More Info about Grant Sims:  www.downundercovers.com