Episode #72: Nicole Masters
Regenerative Agriculture Podcast
AEA Marketing
4.7 • 546 Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2021
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Nicole Masters is an internationally recognized agroecologist from New Zealand. Fortified by her studies in ecology and plant physiology, Nicole currently serves as the Director of Integrity Soils, a collection of regenerative agriculture coaches that assist growers around the globe. Nicole is also the author of "For the Love of Soil: Strategies to Regenerate Our Food Production Systems."
In this episode, Nicole and John discuss:
- Nicole's background in vermicompost and her strategy of customizing microbial applications to produce specific outcomes.
- The current rise in research on microbial quorum sensing and quorum signaling.
- Many case studies and examples that explain relationships between soil life and nutrition profiles and weed populations.
- The function of biology in response to plant signals and in enhancement of plant immune systems.
- The practice of bio-priming seeds or land, and how it helps to produce disease-suppressive soils, and to regenerate native plant populations.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi friends, this is John and this is the regenerative agriculture podcast. Welcome back. |
| 0:06.0 | On this podcast we talk about agronomic science and the cultural management practices that regenerate |
| 0:12.0 | plant health and soil health, that regenerate ecological health and ultimately that regenerate |
| 0:17.0 | animal and public health, of course, as well, because those are all pieces that we care about and that are all important. My guest today is someone that I've been wanting to speak with |
| 0:25.6 | for quite some time. I grew up, spent a lot of her time and career on the other side of the planet, |
| 0:31.9 | Nicole Masters from New Zealand. Welcome, Nicole. I'm really honored to have you here. Thank you for |
| 0:36.1 | being here. Thanks for having me, John. I'm really honored to have you here. Thank you for being here. |
| 0:40.8 | Thanks for having me, John. I'm really excited to be here with you. |
| 0:48.2 | Nicole, I've really enjoyed reading your book for the love of soil, and I really like the title as well. |
| 0:56.4 | Yeah. Because I think all of us would do well to have more empathy and more appreciation for soil and for the landscape and everything that is within that landscape because the degree that we have empathy, of course, |
| 1:00.3 | is the degree that we are able to affect change and to influence change. |
| 1:05.6 | Absolutely. |
| 1:06.6 | I'd love to learn a bit more about the things that you're working on and have you share |
| 1:13.6 | some of those with our audience. |
| 1:14.7 | But before we go into some of those, can you tell us a little bit about your story and |
| 1:19.6 | the context? |
| 1:21.2 | What brought you to this work today? |
| 1:22.8 | What are some of the memorable moments on your pathway? |
| 1:25.7 | Great. |
| 1:26.2 | Thanks, John. |
| 1:27.4 | Yeah, it's always such a big question. |
| 1:29.3 | You go, wow, which bit do you kind of pick from? |
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