Michele & Phil Lally began Savannah Farm after their family succession process, and after realising that they had to do something different so they could afford to stay on the 5th generation Lally family farm.  Savannah Farm produce is now one of South Australia’s most well known ethically produced, free range, grass fed, meat products. Using Regenerative Farming practices, the couple have expanded from lamb and wool production to pasture raised poultry, and heritage pasture raised beef and pork, with a focus on using animals in landscapes to create increased soil fertility.

After a city corporate career in IT, consulting and event management, Michele is now a national committee member of the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance and Chair of Australian Fair Food Farmers United focussed on solidarity between farmers around Australia, fair food regulation and policy with a key focus on food security and family farms. In between selling pasture raised meats, Michele & Phil are in the final hours of delivering a multi species micro on-farm abattoir, following in the path of their mentor and friend,  Joel Salatin, of Polyface Farms, Virginia, USA.

Simon Bryant’s 25 year career includes cooking in Thai, Indian and award winning fine dining restaurants, as well as a one year stretch as a butcher. He became Hilton Adelaide’s Executive Chef in 2003, a role he undertook for 7 years. Simon has cooked both in Melbourne and Adelaide, followed by various promotional stints in Russia, USA, Japan, China and Singapore.

From 2006 to 2009 he co-hosted 152 episodes of ABC Television’s “The Cook and the Chef” with South Australian food icon Maggie Beer. He is the author of “Vegies” and the newly released “Vegetables, Grains & Other Good Stuff” published by Penguin Lantern, with both books including a collection of seasonal vegetarian recipes.

In 2014 Simon was appointed as Co-Creative Director for Tasting Australia – Australia’s premium Food and Wine festival. This year the festival will become an annual event, with Simon continuing in this role for 2016 and 2017. He is also a providore of single origin, traceable, non GM, Australian foods with his brand
dirt(y); and a semi competent organic home vegie gardener.

Simon strongly believes in using his profile to highlight ethical food issues, including paying fair prices to producers for ethically produced food; using local, seasonal, fresh ingredients with minimal environmental impact; the responsible and culturally appropriate use of Australian native foods; and in particular, the ethical treatment of animals in the food chain.

Above all, he is an advocate of simple produce driven cooking.

Ambassador for:
• Animals Asia Foundation
• The Animal Welfare League, SA
• RSPCA Choose Wisely Campaign
• The Department of Environment and Heritage Kitchen Garden Foundation
• Premium Food and Wine from South Australia’s Clean Environment
• Oxfam GROW and FAIR
• Meat Free Week
• Adelaide Bee Sanctuary
• Australian International Year of Pulses

Patron of:
• CheeseFest

Awards and Presentations include:
• 2008 Restaurant and Catering Association (SA) – Chef of the Year
• 2007 Hotel Management Magazine Awards Excellence – Executive Chef of the Year
• 2014 The Advertiser Food Awards – Vittoria Coffee, Adelaide Food Legend

www.simonbryant.com.au

Dr Keri Chiveralls is Discipline Leader of the Graduate Certificate in Permaculture Design at CQUniversity. She is also a cultural anthropologist with an interest in environmental anthropology, social movement studies and theories of social change. She received her doctorate in anthropology/social inquiry from the University of Adelaide in 2008 and has gone on to publish numerous research outputs including presentations at national and international conferences, book chapters, journal and magazine articles.

She recently completed a Research Fellowship at UniSA, where she was engaged on a number of different projects looking at social and cultural aspects associated with ‘sustainability’ in construction, including conducting fieldwork in the permaculture and ‘natural’/alternative building movements, and lecturing in ‘sustainable  development: a global perspective’ and ‘social and community planning’.

After returning from participation in the Dialogue Days for the drafting of the Sustainable Development Goals at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in 2012, Keri became a member of Transition Adelaide Hills, and a passionate advocate for transition towards sustainability and beyond. She is currently relishing the challenge of applying her background in cultural anthropology and sustainability to the task of co-ordinating and developing one of the world’s first tertiary level permaculture programs at CQUniversity

Kate is owner/operator of ViVe, a small market garden in McLaren Vale, SA. She transformed an old vineyard into vegetable production two years ago after receiving the Young Farmers Scholarship from her local Willunga Farmers Market.

The business helps Kate showcase the importance of diversifying agriculture in her region. She is also co-founder of Land to Hand, a not-for-profit aiming to connect the community to food and local producers through workshops and a weekly produce box. Kate derives her off-farm income by teaching the Kitchen Garden program at a local primary school. “I feel so lucky to be able to work in so many ways with my passion for growing local, healthy food for the community”, Kate says.

Dr Sam Manger is a Director on the National Board of the Transitions Film Festival, a National Board Member of the Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine, a rural General Practitioner, and a student of permaculture, regenerative agriculture and bush survival.

He completed his Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery and his undergraduate Bachelor of Science from the University of Queensland. His passion for health and neuroscience has evolved into reflecting on how to change individual and social behaviour to lead to a more healthy, sustainable and ethical culture.

The TFF was founded in 2012 and has presented hundreds of positive and solutions focussed films, forums and events around Australia on the transition to a sustainable and ethical culture.