FARMERS HELPING FARMERS Episode 25 – Nicole Masters

April 23, 2025

Creating a lasting legacy for soil health

Nicole, a global agro-ecologist, educator and systems thinker, has been working with VicNoTill to share knowledge about regenerative ag for more than a decade.

In this Farmers Helping Farmers episode, current president Michael Gooden talks to Nicole about how regenerative ag is a system, not an input and how people’s awareness has exploded about the critical role healthy soils play in our lives.

For Nicole, regenerative ag is an approach which enhances natural cycles, repairs ‘disturbance’ events, minimises harmful inputs and focuses on building resilience, microbial life and organic matter.

She loves that it’s not a scripted list of what you can’t do.

“As a farmer-led approach, a regenerative system encourages local innovation. Transitioning broadacre crops towards low-input, increased efficiency systems offers one of the largest opportunities for farmers, land, communities and profits.”

  • VicNoTill is thrilled to host the Integrity Soils CREATE Down Under program, which is coming to Australia for the first time, on our board member Callum Lawson’s regeneratively-managed farm in Victoria.
  • CREATE is a 34-week intensive agroecological coaching program that is creating the next generation of soil health educators.
  • Applications open on 1 May, 2025. Places are limited. Apply HERE. 
  • The program starts with an eight-day intensive in September after the VicNoTill annual conference.