Saltgrass Podcast

30/07/2026

We are so proud to announce the latest round of successful content grant applications with the Broadcasting Foundation - helping us make great radio!

🙌 Able Radio: is back for another year! Able Radio is made by people with disability and is for everyone. Giving people with the lived experience of disability the chance to rock the mic and share their stories. Fridays 1pm - 3pm.
Check our past episodes at https://www.facebook.com/ableradiomainfm

🌱 Saltgrass Bushfire Series: Produced by Allie Hanly. The January 9th fires heavily impacted our region and community, with Harcourt one of the worst hit. This series is part oral history, part bushfire education and part exploration of how a town can try to recover and move on from such devastation. Launching in 2027, you can check out past episodes at https://saltgrasspodcast.com/

🪷 The Pause: is back for Season 2! Produced by Lucy Armstrong and Kya Moore. A ten part exploration of perimenopause and menopause. By amplifying underrepresented voices and expanding partnerships with health organisations and community groups, season 2 will foster solidarity, reduce isolation and build a broader audience through innovative, story-led audio production.
Launching in 2027 you can check out past episodes at https://thepausepodcast.com.au/

A huge congratulations to Able Radio, The Pause and Saltgrass. 👏👏👏

These shows are prime examples of the type of programming MainFM strives for, where diverse voices are amplified. Sharing stories and fostering resilience.

When you take out a MainFM subscription, your contributing to building a strong, connected community.

MainFM's Radiothon happens Sep 11-19th. Stay tuned for updates and get behind your local little station with the big heart.

28/07/2026

On Desert Discovery the tracking team have a very systematic approach to their surveys. Its a method adopted because it is consistant with how other groups survey arid zones in Australia, which allows all the data to be comparable.

Episode 6 of season 6, all about the tracking team on Desert Discovery Inc. Its available to listen on your podcast app or at the Saltgrass website, which also has links and a full transcript.

24/07/2026

Did you know that echidna poo sometimes sparkles?! Its from all the ants and beetles they eat.

The tracking team on Desert Discovery systematically covers the ground, searching for all the clues left behind by animals, like s**t (sparkely or otherwise), prints, and burrows.

After just one day with them I have become so much more aware of signs left behind by our ecological community every time I go for a walk.

Episode 6 of the Desert Discovery series is now out. Find it on your podcast app or at the Saltgrass website, where there are links and a full transcript too.

11/07/2026

On the third day of Desert Discovery Jeremy saw something odd. He went over to investigate, there were burrow entrances and mounds of red soil. Could it be bilbies?!? We had all been briefed about them, no matter which team you were on. They are a rare, burrowing marsupial, that looks a little like a rabbit. Over the next few days several teams got involved, analysing the site and any evidence we could find.

Listen to Episode 5 'Long Shots', to find out if it really was bilbies. Find it on your podcast app or on the Saltgrass website, where there is also a full transcript and links.

28/06/2026

Bilbies, great desert skinks, malleefowl and stick nest rats. Burrows, mounds, and many kinds of excretment. Clues, fragments, and ancient relics. No matter what team you were on, everyone on Desert Discovery Inc. was told to keep an eye out for these rare and unlikely species or what they may have left for us to find in the landscape.

Find this episode on your podcast app or listen on the Saltgrass Website.

This season Allie, Saltgrass’ host, will take listeners on an adventure to a remote desert location in Western Australia with citizen science group Desert Discovery. This first episode is jus…

09/06/2026

I think I'm finally getting my head around some simple video editing! Now I get to share some footage from Desert Discovery! (And I got so much footage 😅 )
This is a little snippet from Episode 4 with the invertebrate team as they spend each day beating, pooting and swooping.
The full episode is up on the podcast and if you want a transcript it's on the saltgrass website 🪲 enjoy!

06/06/2026

New designs from the Desert Discovery season and much loved oldies like 'compost' from the Saltgrass merch store. Online, of course, and also today and once a month for the next few months, in person at the Wesley Hill market, Castlemaine

06/06/2026

I'm at Wesley Hill Market today with some Saltgrass merch. I'll be here once a month for the next few months... come on down!!

18/05/2026

In the last episode we had a chat with Mount Alexander Shire Mayor Toby Heydon and YIMBY co-founder Lucy Young to explore the impacts of the rolling out a Food Organics / Garden Organics (FOGO) kerbside waste service in the shire.

It seemed clear there was a lot more to say!

So this episode we are joined once more by Lucy and also by Anthony Jansen who runs Greenaway, a garden organics waste service. Together we talk about what we might be able to imagine for the shire if we choose not to run with FOGO bins, but rather manage the FO (food organics) and GO (garden organics) in creative and practical ways.

Listen here – or find and follow Saltgrass on your podcast app. In the last episode we had a chat with Mount Alexander Shire Mayor Toby Heydon and YIMBY co-founder Lucy Young to explore the i…

10/05/2026

Lucy from YIMBY and Toby Heydon, Mayor of Mt Alexander Shire Council talk to Allie from Saltgrass Podcast about the proposed introduction of a Food Organics Garden Organics bin...

Listen to the episode at yimbycompost.com/press