Hey everyone, Kevin from Epic Gardening here.

We are continuing on with the best of weeks here on the podcast.

Hope you enjoy.

What's going on, everyone?

Kevin from Epic Gardening here, I am here with a very interesting guest, Nicole Masters

She's an international agroecologist in the systems thinker and I think you guys are

getting the picture now, I met her on Instagram, I'm meeting a lot of my gardening friends

on Instagram these days whether they be new or old and so we have a really, really exciting

week planned for you guys, but I figured the first thing we would do in Nicole is kind of

just give your background to everyone so they know who you are and what you're up to.

Thanks, Kevin.

Yeah, as people might be able to tell from my accent, I'm from New Zealand, but I've

been most of my life on the road, so I'm traveling and my focus really is around soil,

health and then how do we restore soil systems and then how does that connect to crop quality,

reducing inputs, animal health, water, greenhouse gases.

So it's a really big, really fun topic to be working with right now and what I'm seeing

is just the interest in how do we rebuild ecosystems is really coming together right now.

Yeah, yeah, I know it certainly is and I think it's in the regenerative ag world, I've

got a few friends there, it's obviously a hot topic, but in the home gardener world,

it does feel like it's spilling over into that a little bit, which I'm really excited

to see.

Yeah, so I've been involved in this field for 20 years and I actually started my career

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