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 and

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 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 spend 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, no, 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, 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 I started my career in market gardens.

So I've come from, well community gardens actually, I've come from that gardening space and just it's got bigger and bigger and my commitment is how do we get chemicals out of the system and how do we improve food quality and so the ones that I'm focusing on now are predominantly large scale broad acre and

environments like that. So, you know, we're working with clients

with over a million acres as our land base, which is really exciting.

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