Nicole Masters on Regenerative Agriculture | Solvable New Works w/ SGM

On January 20th, Nicole Masters joined us to discuss Regenerative Agriculture and her book, For the Love of Soil: Strategies To Regenerate Our Food Production Systems. Together with the Social Gastronomy Movement, we took a systems view into how agriculture is the connector between water quality, food security, fisheries, climate change, and food and human health. We zoom into the future of agriculture and food production through the practical applications of projects around the world by farmers, ranchers, and growers transforming soil health.

0:00 May Bartlett introduces the series and the topic
2:52 May offers centering exercise
7:18 Introduction to the Social Gastronomy Movement
9:30 Adam Lerner introduces Nicole Masters
11:34 Adam & Mike Oliveira (SGM) in conversation with Nicole
13:18 What has been your regeneration journey?
17:24 How our perspective and observations shifting in agriculture?
21:39 How does uncertainty and the desire for control affect regenerative behaviour?
24:38 How can regenerative agriculture increase food security?
29:07 How does Nicole see the regenerative agriculture movement progressing?
30:50 How is the quantification and valuing of natural assets changing agricultural practice?
35:55 What is a starting point for regeneration?
39:50 How do we approach conversations about well-being in the context of agriculture?
43:04 Group sharebacks from breakouts
1:02:15 Closing comments & integration practice

REGENERATION NEW WORKS SERIES
We’re in a transitionary socio-cultural moment between systems with a growing recognition of the imperative to change the direction of social and planetary travel. New Works Regeneration is a knowledge commons where conversations are a space for emerging the myriad dimensions of radical improvement. The conversations are free and open to all with the intentions of strengthening connections, expanding perspectives, and championing important contributions.

NICOLE MASTERS
Nicole Masters is an agro-ecologist, educator and systems thinker with twenty years of practical and theoretical experience throughout Australasia and North America working on regenerative land practices. A self-proclaimed “soil greek,” Nicole has been working as a soils coach to agricultural producers through her organization, Integrity Soils, in diverse production sectors from dairy, sheep & beef, viticulture, compost, nurseries, market gardens, racing studs, lifestyle blocks to largescale cropping.