# Reinventing Agriculture Designing regenerative lives, businesses & landscapes. Page: Feed: --- ## [Letting plants grow](https://soundcloud.com/kim-deans-934142347/letting-plants-grow) _2026-06-28_ is there a missing link in your soil health strategy? We can't buy soil health in a bag. [Listen](https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2349166982-kim-deans-934142347-letting-plants-grow.mp3) ## [Less can be more](https://soundcloud.com/kim-deans-934142347/less-can-be-more) _2026-04-13_ 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. [Listen](https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2301556619-kim-deans-934142347-less-can-be-more.mp3) ## [Where do I start?](https://soundcloud.com/kim-deans-934142347/where-do-i-start) _2026-02-12_ 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. [Listen](https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2264981240-kim-deans-934142347-where-do-i-start.mp3) ## [How long will it take?](https://soundcloud.com/kim-deans-934142347/how-long-will-it-take) _2025-12-08_ 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. [Listen](https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2225870132-kim-deans-934142347-how-long-will-it-take.mp3) ## [What are weeds and pests telling us?](https://soundcloud.com/kim-deans-934142347/what-are-weeds-and-pests-telling-us) _2025-11-14_ 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 [Listen](https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2212340312-kim-deans-934142347-what-are-weeds-and-pests-telling-us.mp3) ## [The connection between a pile of rocks and the ripple effect...](https://soundcloud.com/kim-deans-934142347/the-connection-between-a-pile-of-rocks-and-the-ripple-effect) _2025-09-24_ 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. [Listen](https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2175698490-kim-deans-934142347-the-connection-between-a-pile-of-rocks-and-the-ripple-effect.mp3) ## [What matters can't always be measured](https://soundcloud.com/kim-deans-934142347/what-matters-cant-always-be-measured) _2025-08-08_ Exploring the benefits and limitations of measuring and managing data. How we can balance the tangible and the intangible aspects. [Listen](https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2149877364-kim-deans-934142347-what-matters-cant-always-be-measured.mp3) ## [Changemaking: Reflections from the Australian Rural Leadership Foundation National Changemaker Gathering June 2025.](https://soundcloud.com/kim-deans-934142347/changemaking-reflections-from-the-australian-rural-leadership-foundation-national-changemaker-gathering-june-2025) _2025-07-07_ 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… [Listen](https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2125768899-kim-deans-934142347-changemaking-reflections-from-the-australian-rural-leadership-foundation-national-changemaker-gathering-june-2025.mp3) ## [Keep going to grow results and harness the compound effect](https://soundcloud.com/kim-deans-934142347/keep-going-to-grow-results-and-harness-the-compound-effect) _2025-05-09_ How we unlock the power of compounding, where small actions that we commit to over time can generate big results. [Listen](https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2092620873-kim-deans-934142347-keep-going-to-grow-results-and-harness-the-compound-effect.mp3) ## [Trade Smarter With IBKR (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ZZpLt1icDazn) _2025-05-09 · **Sponsored**_ Join Interactive Brokers through a referral and start investing with low-cost global access. ## [Creating opportunities in uncertain times](https://soundcloud.com/kim-deans-934142347/creating-opportunities-in-uncertain-times) _2025-03-18_ 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. [Listen](https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2056720344-kim-deans-934142347-creating-opportunities-in-uncertain-times.mp3)