Kerry believes a new era in agriculture has emerged, which will put an understanding of ecology front and centre of farm decision-making and will require a shift from reductionist to holistic thinking.
Kerry was the 2009 Foundation President of the Australian Ecological Agriculture Association (EAAA) and in 2016 was instrumental in transforming the association into today’s Australian Institute of Ecological Agriculture Cooperative Ltd (IEA).
Kerry’s 35-year academic career commenced with a Bachelor of Agricultural Science (BAgSc) from The University of Sydney (USYD), followed by postgraduate studies in the humanities from Western Sydney University (WSU) and Lancaster University (US) in the United Kingdom (UK).
Kerry’s time in the UK provided a further understanding of holism and he embraced its interpretation of life. Connected to this was a passion for an ecological approach to agriculture.
Introducing Human Ecology as a unit of study led to the creation of a Bachelor of Ecological Agriculture at the University of Sydney (CSU), of which he was Course Coordinator for 15 years. He also co-designed the Regenerative Agriculture stream within the Bachelor of Science at Southern Cross University (SCU). Kerry has recently retired from teaching Human Ecology into the degree program at SCU and Transformational Change into the Graduate Certificate at SCU.