When colonists arrived in Australia they ignored the First Peoples’ style of land management, which nurtured diversity, and chose instead to replicate the systems they had left behind – ploughing soil, planting exotic food plants, and almost completely ending the use of fire in the landscape. Bruce Pascoe is a Yuin, Bunurong and Tasmanian man, a writer and farmer who has been observing the recovery of his own and others’ land in Australia since the devastating Black Summer fires of 2019-2020, and exploring the potential for food forests, cultural burning, and biodiverse plantings over monoculture. In his book, Country: Future Fire, Future Farming (co-written with Bill Gammage), Bruce explains what Country means in Aboriginal worldviews, and illustrates how pre-colonial First Peoples sowed and harvested plants, managed animals and used fire with deeply emplaced knowledge and expertise. Bruce will be joined in this session by Tammi Jonas, a settler farmer on unceded Dja Dja Wurrung Country, and leader in the food sovereignty movement in Australia. Together, they will explore what food sovereignty means to Australia today and how they can build a conciliatory and convivial agroecological future for Country and all her kin.