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SUMMARY:R.A.W GARDEN CLUB 2025 - Community Connections
DESCRIPTION:Come and join us for a day filled with gardening\, meaningful connections\, food swaps\, and a delicious lunch at R.A.W Urban Farm. \nWe\, at R.A.W\, aspire to the vision of Brendan Condon (The Sustainable Landscape Company Director): “To change the way cities function\, to cycle valuable nutrients from food and green waste away from landfill and back into food production. Improve food security\, nutrition and health\, beautiful spaces\, invite nature into our cities and create social connection\, exercise and liveable neighbourhoods.” \nTasks can be from gardening to the gutter or window cleaning\, paint the pavilion\, … \nIncluded: \n\nSimple and sustainable gardening principles\nTea and connections of old and new community.\n\nItinerary \n\n11:00 -13:00 Working bee\n13:30 – 14:00 Community potluck lunch\n\nWhat to bring: \n\nHat\, Gloves\, Water bottle\nSnacks or Food to share during our lunch break\n\nIn addition to our gardening efforts\, the day will end with a beautiful lunch\, fostering connections not only with food but also with your neighbours and the nurturing land that sustains us all. \nCome and be a part of this enriching experience\, embracing the joy of gardening and the spirit of community. Let’s cultivate connections – with nature\, with each other\, and with the abundance of the earth. See you there! \nWith love\, \nR.A.W. Australia
URL:https://granolamagazine.com.au/event1/r-a-w-garden-club-2025-community-connections/
LOCATION:RAW Australia\, 325 South Road Brighton East\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3187\, Australia
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SUMMARY:Industry Innovation Series | Smart Farming Tech Transforming Agriculture
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the 2025 La Trobe Industry Innovation Series as we deep-dive into the future of Smart Farming – exploring how cutting-edge technologies are transforming how we grow\, manage\, and sustain food production. \nThis focused session brings together experts from Driscoll’s Australia\, Polybee\, La Trobe University and more who are at the forefront of applying digital innovation to real-world farming challenges. \nFrom AI-powered monitoring and robotics to drone pollination and precision data analytics\, learn how smart technologies are improving productivity\, sustainability\, and resilience across the agricultural sector. \nWhat to Expect: \n\nExpert insights from leading agtech organisations and researchers\n\n\nReal-world applications of robotics\, sensors\, drones\, and data in farming\n\n\nDiscussions on sustainability\, climate adaptation\, and supply chain efficiency\n\n\nNetworking opportunities with industry professionals\, researchers\, and students\n\nThis event is ideal for growers\, agribusiness professionals\, researchers\, entrepreneurs\, and students looking to understand and adopt smart farming approaches that drive the future of agriculture. \n\n\n\n\nDetails\n\n\n\n\nDate: Tuesday 1 July 2025\, 5 – 7pm\nVenue: Digital Innovation Hub (L2\, Jenny Graves Building\, Melbourne Campus)\, Map Ref: 8G\nFormat: In-person\nCost: Free \n\n\n\n\nSpeakers and topics\n\n\n\n\n\nProfessor Simone Warner\, Head of Agriculture Victoria Research; Co-Director\, Centre for AgriBioscience\n‘AgBioTech research across Agriculture Victoria’s SmartFarm Ecosystem’\n\n\n\n\n\nThe use of AgBiotech across Agriculture Victoria’s SmartFarms in support of the Victoria’s agriculture sector \n\n\n\n\n\nRoberto Barajas\, Operations and Planning Director\, Driscoll’s Australia\n‘Automation in the Berry Industry: A Necessity\, Not a Luxury‘\n\n\n\n\n\nSparking meaningful discussion and highlight the urgency of adopting AgTech in berry farming \n\n\n\n\n\nSiddharth Jadhav\, Founder & CEO\, Polybee\n‘Increasing profits in fresh produce through automation and intelligence’\n\n\n\n\n\nUnderstanding how autonomous pollination and yield forecasting with drones and AI has consistently reduced uncertainty in decision making and improved profits for fresh produce growers. \n\n\n\n\n\nProfessor Mathew Lewsey\, Node Director\, ARC Centre of Excellence in Plants for Space\, La Trobe University\n‘Advancing Plant Biology on Earth and in Space’\n\n\n\n\n\nExploring technologies for protected cropping and vertical farming in extreme environments. \n\n\n\n\nSnapshot: Industry Innovation Series\n\n\n\n\nLa Trobe University proudly presents the Industry Innovation Series. \nEach session will feature a one-hour lecture-style presentation – followed by audience Q&A and networking opportunities – focusing on a critical topic\, such as agriculture\, health and wellbeing\, biotechnology and digital innovation. Pivotal research outcomes and industry insights will be spotlighted\, as well as technology innovations and impactful partnership opportunities. \nGlobal impact needs to start somewhere\, so we’re making it happen right here and now. At La Trobe\, we’re not just shaping the future – we’re a community of industry professionals\, researchers\, academics and graduates who are on-the-ground transforming lives every day\, including today. \nThe Industry Innovation Series is curated to support and inform industry professionals working within or seeking to learn more about the highlighted fields\, and the opportunities available to drive innovation and success. \n\n\n\n\nSnapshot: Speaker Profiles\n\n\n\n\nProfessor Simone Warner \nProf. Warner is the Head of Agriculture Victoria Research and has over 35 years experience in agricultural sciences\, biosecurity and environmental sciences\, with a PhD in molecular virology from the University of Melbourne. As Head\, Simone leads the research arm of Agriculture Victoria which undertakes national and globally significant research to support the diary\, grains\, horticulture\, biosecurity and natural resource sectors. This includes leading world-class research and innovation in the application of new\, effective and fit-for-purpose AgriBiotech to improve the productivity and biosecurity for Victoria’s agriculture sector. Simone leads approximately 400 staff and 65 PhD students across the State\, including at AgriBio\, Australia’s first integrated agricultural systems biology research centre located at the La Trobe University Bundoora campus\, and across five SmartFarms located regionally in Ellinbank\, Tatura\, Horsham\, Hamilton and Mildura. Simone was appointed as the role of Head of Agriculture Victoria Research (AVR) in February 2023\, and has recently been appointed as Head of School\, for the School of Applied Systems Biology at La Trobe University. \nRoberto Barajas \nRoberto Barajas is the Operations and Planning Director for Driscoll’s Australia\, bringing over 18 years of experience in the berry industry across North America\, Australia\, and New Zealand\, 12 of those years based in Australia. Over his career\, Roberto has developed deep expertise in grower operations\, supply chain management\, genetics\, applied research\, production planning and forecasting\, and strategic planning driving growth. Roberto is passionate about long-term thinking and delivering sustained value to Driscoll’s three core stakeholders: consumers\, growers\, and customers. His leadership is grounded in a commitment to innovation and operational excellence across the global berry supply network. \nSiddharth Jadhav \nSiddharth Jadhav is CEO at Polybee\, a Singapore and Melbourne-based agtech company. He founded Polybee in 2019 as a spinoff venture from the National University of Singapore. Siddharth leads the company’s product development and oversees business development. He has 7+ years of experience in leading teams working on field robotics\, AI and automation in agriculture. Previously\, Siddharth was an associate scientist at the National University of Singapore. \nProfessor Mathew Lewsey \nProfessor Mathew G. Lewsey studies how plants perceive and interact with the world around them through regulation of their genes. His lab at the La Trobe Institute for Sustainable Agriculture and Food (La Trobe University\, Australia) is home to a diverse team of engineers\, computational biologists\, plant and genome scientists. Their work spans from the fundamental to the applied\, involving commercial partners who grow a range of crops such as cannabis\, opium poppies\, barley\, oats and peas. \nMat completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge and then was a Marie Curie Fellow at the Salk Institute (La Jolla\, USA) and at the Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (Madrid\, Spain). He joined La Trobe University in April 2016\, where he has served in several research leadership roles\, including Director of the La Trobe Genomics Platform and Deputy Director of the Australian Research Council Industrial Transformation Research Hub for Medicinal Agriculture. \nMat helped establish the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plants for Space in 2024 with colleagues from Adelaide University\, the University of Melbourne\, the University of Western Australia and Flinders University\, which studies plant design and bioresource production to enable off-Earth habitation and provide solutions for improving on-Earth sustainability. \nAs Director of the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility at La Trobe University\, he leads a team that provide advanced plant imaging and cultivation services to academic and commercial researchers. \nMost recently\, Mat developed Plant Synthetic Biology Australia with colleagues from Adelaide University\, the Australian National University and the University of Western Australia. This distributed facility is funded by Bioplatforms Australia and the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy\, with the goal of enabling academic and commercial access to synthetic biology tools.
URL:https://granolamagazine.com.au/event1/industry-innovation-series-smart-farming-tech-transforming-agriculture/
LOCATION:Digital Innovation Hub at La Trobe University\, Kingsbury Drive\, Bundoora\, VIC\, 3086\, Australia
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SUMMARY:Act on Climate collective meeting & dinner (online and in-person)
DESCRIPTION:ORGANISING MEETINGS ON TUESDAY NIGHTS\n\nThe Act on Climate collective meet weekly on Tuesday evenings. Except on the second Thursday of the month when we host a social event instead of a meeting. This is an opportunity for new and existing members to gather outside of FoE HQ to chat about what’s going informally\, check in and hang out.\n\n\nAct on Climate campaigns for climate justice with frontline communities\, workers\, and unions. The collective is building an alliance with grassroots groups towards climate resilience and local solutions with social justice at its’ core.\n\nWeekly collective meetings are the engine room for our campaigns. Dinner is included\, cooked by a collective member. \nCome along to get involved in grassroots action for climate justice. \n\nNOTE: Friends of the Earth is a COVID-safe workplace. At face-to-face meetings\, we ask that attendees are fully vaccinated. \nWe acknowledge that the lands we meet and work on across so called Victoria are stolen from First Nations people. There can be no climate justice without justice for First Nations communities everywhere. Solidarity with Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander people under settler colonialism in so called Australia is critical in the fight for liberation from all oppressive systems that devalue and exploit people and the environment.
URL:https://granolamagazine.com.au/event1/act-on-climate-collective-meeting-dinner-online-and-in-person-2/
LOCATION:Friends of the Earth Melbourne\, 312 Smith St\, Collingwood\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3066\, Australia
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