Podcast
Reinventing Agriculture
Hosted by Kim Deans · EN
Designing regenerative lives, businesses & landscapes.
10episodes
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Less can be more
Apr 1300:08:25Tap to summarizeExploring our bias towards addition when solving problems, rather than subtraction….people are more likely to consider solutions that add features than solutions that remove them, even when removing features is more efficient.
Transcribe →Where do I start?
Feb 1200:09:45Tap to summarizeImproving soil health requires more than simple practice change. While it’s our practices that got us here, practices alone won’t get us there.
Transcribe →How long will it take?
Dec 800:08:54Tap to summarizeThis is one of the most common questions I hear from clients and workshop participants. How long it will take to regenerate soil health always depends on several factors. Let's break down five factors which you can influence to help you see improvements more quickly.
Transcribe →What are weeds and pests telling us?
Nov 1400:08:52Tap to summarizeI find it way more interesting and enjoyable to approach pests and weeds as a learning opportunity, rather than just find something to get rid of them. Here are some of the ways I approach this as a learning opportunity and use it to inform management decisions
Transcribe →The connection between a pile of rocks and the ripple effect...
Sep 2400:07:55Tap to summarizeinformation gathering is like gathering rocks, nothing can ripple out from these rocks of information and knowledge we collect until we use the rocks and put them into action.
Transcribe →What matters can't always be measured
Aug 800:08:24Tap to summarizeExploring the benefits and limitations of measuring and managing data. How we can balance the tangible and the intangible aspects.
Transcribe →Changemaking: Reflections from the Australian Rural Leadership Foundation National Changemaker Gathering June 2025.
Jul 700:18:10Tap to summarizeBringing passionate rural changemakers and some excellent facilitators together for three days created fertile conditions for learning, networking and skill building. These three days of experiential, transformational learning deepened and extended on the concepts we covered in the regional Changemaker workshops. I didn’t come home with a head full of theory and information. I came home with a head full of possibilities, a heart full of hope and hands ready to take some new actions in my work and life.
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Keep going to grow results and harness the compound effect
May 9, 202500:08:19Tap to summarizeHow we unlock the power of compounding, where small actions that we commit to over time can generate big results.
Transcribe →Creating opportunities in uncertain times
Mar 18, 202500:13:21Tap to summarizeIn agriculture we are accustomed to navigating change and uncertainty, and investing time, energy and financial resources into a crop or a livestock enterprise with no guarantee how the season or markets will be. Yet uncertainty is the most common challenge people struggle with when I am working with clients on their budgets, business plans, whole farm plans or soil restoration plans.
Transcribe →Five questions to focus on what matters
Dec 18, 202400:05:50Tap to summarizeThe review phase is one part of the planning process I use and teach in my farm business coaching and whole farm planning programs. As 2024 draws to a close I thought I would share these five questions that form the basis of my weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly review processes.
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