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For the love of SOIL

Changing the world is something most of us think about, some of us try to do, and many of us decide is just too hard. But New Zealander Nicole Masters is on a mission to change the world, one American ranch at a time.

The agroecologist is doing it by teaching regenerative agriculture and getting farmers and ranchers to look at what lies beneath: the state of their soil.

“There is a whole world under our feet, begging to be explored. It’s a world that has been largely ignored and kept out of sight, until more recently. We’re spending trillions figuring out how to get to Mars or discovering life on other planets, when we are barely comprehending the life we have on earth,” she says in her book For the Love of Soil: Strategies to Regenerate our Food Production Systems.

Nicole and I talk by Zoom just as the

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