Reinventing Agriculture

Exploring 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.

Improving soil health requires more than simple practice change. While it’s our practices that got us here, practices alone won’t get us there.

This 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.

I 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

information 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.

Exploring the benefits and limitations of measuring and managing data. How we can balance the tangible and the intangible aspects.

Bringing 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.

How we unlock the power of compounding, where small actions that we commit to over time can generate big results.

In 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.

The 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.

Our 20-year journey of re-establishing trees on land where trees were cleared for tin mining in the early 1900’s has presented plenty of challenges, which have provided abundant opportunities to learn and try methods to improve our success growing trees.

Key steps for effectively navigating the financial aspects of transition and change.

14 Questions for Activating our Effectiveness. How can we claim we are achieving truly regenerative outcomes if we are running ourselves down in the process?

Introducing the Reinventing Agriculture Podcast