Nicole would like to hear your thoughts to ensure this experience provides even more value for you and everyone attending.
**** Last Minute Updates ~ 9th April ****
#1 Covid or Flu: Many people attending will have been with family and friends over easter and likely to have been exposed to covid. Request, if you have Covid or flu please do not attend the workshop this week. You will be fully refunded if you let us know.
If you come down with it during the workshop please let us know and Ashley will organise a refund with you. Thank you for your understanding, as this may not be about you but someone who is immune compromised.
#2 Coffee Van at Venue from 7.30am to 9.00am on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. So no need to rush around Orange looking for a coffee, come out early, get a coffee and have a chat.
#3 Bring Warm Clothes: We will be trying to keep as much fresh air as possible at the venue and keep it cool as well. so bring your layers and jackets and beanies. It will be quite nice autumn days for us locals with a low of 3 deg and tops of 16 deg and mostly sunny.
#4 Airport Pickup To be sure we have a pick up arranged from airport please text Grahame your ETA so we can try and arrange a pickup. We have a lot of moving parts and not many feet on the ground so please let us know so we can arrange.
Grahame 0428953925
If you come down with it during the workshop please let us know and Ashley will organise a refund with you. Thank you for your understanding, as this may not be about you but someone who is immune compromised.
#2 Coffee Van at Venue from 7.30am to 9.00am on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. So no need to rush around Orange looking for a coffee, come out early, get a coffee and have a chat.
#3 Bring Warm Clothes: We will be trying to keep as much fresh air as possible at the venue and keep it cool as well. so bring your layers and jackets and beanies. It will be quite nice autumn days for us locals with a low of 3 deg and tops of 16 deg and mostly sunny.
#4 Airport Pickup To be sure we have a pick up arranged from airport please text Grahame your ETA so we can try and arrange a pickup. We have a lot of moving parts and not many feet on the ground so please let us know so we can arrange.
Grahame 0428953925
Nicole Masters
Integrity Soils
Integrity Soils
Nicole Masters is an independent agroecologist, author, coach and educator.
For over 2 decades Nicole has been recognized as a knowledgeable and dynamic speaker on the topic of soil health.
Her experience has spanned diverse sectors from horticulture, to commercial compost and diverse multi-species livestock systems, traveling from New Zealand across to Australia, United Kingdom and North America. Working in biomes that range from temperate to semi-arid she has witnessed up-close, the power of soil health in making measurable differences in people's lives.
Her company, Integrity Soils delivers coaching and educational programs to producers and organisations spanning over 29 million acres.
In 2021 Integrity Soils shifted away from in-person consultancy, to focus on training the next generation of coaches.
Her book titled “For the Love of Soil; Strategies to Regenerate our Food Production Systems” showcases examples of the tools and principles producers are using to regenerate their soils.
When roads in the US are good, you’ll find her travelling in her Ford 350, horse trailer in tow, working alongside producers to build soil and sink her carbon emissions.
For over 2 decades Nicole has been recognized as a knowledgeable and dynamic speaker on the topic of soil health.
Her experience has spanned diverse sectors from horticulture, to commercial compost and diverse multi-species livestock systems, traveling from New Zealand across to Australia, United Kingdom and North America. Working in biomes that range from temperate to semi-arid she has witnessed up-close, the power of soil health in making measurable differences in people's lives.
Her company, Integrity Soils delivers coaching and educational programs to producers and organisations spanning over 29 million acres.
In 2021 Integrity Soils shifted away from in-person consultancy, to focus on training the next generation of coaches.
Her book titled “For the Love of Soil; Strategies to Regenerate our Food Production Systems” showcases examples of the tools and principles producers are using to regenerate their soils.
When roads in the US are good, you’ll find her travelling in her Ford 350, horse trailer in tow, working alongside producers to build soil and sink her carbon emissions.
Meagan Lannan
Integrity Soils
Integrity Soils
Meagan Lannan has the great pleasure to serve on Nicole Masters' international team of agroecological coaches that are training systems-thinking, boots-on-the-ground ecological coaches to work with ranchers and farmers worldwide.
Meagan is an animated, straightforward coach that sparks potential through curious questions to ignite crucial conversations that open gates for action. Her joy in coaching is working with an individual or team with a story of challenges and transforming those into a reality of possibility and opportunity.
When not coaching humans, Meagan is calling cows.
She and her husband own Barney Creek Livestock, a regenerative adaptive grazing operation in Montana's Paradise Valley in the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem.
Meagan is an animated, straightforward coach that sparks potential through curious questions to ignite crucial conversations that open gates for action. Her joy in coaching is working with an individual or team with a story of challenges and transforming those into a reality of possibility and opportunity.
When not coaching humans, Meagan is calling cows.
She and her husband own Barney Creek Livestock, a regenerative adaptive grazing operation in Montana's Paradise Valley in the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem.
Stacey Curcio
Cultivating Wellness
Cultivating Wellness
Growing up, my incredible parents ran their own business, which is based on the principles that align with those of Regenerative Agriculture. The business, Resource Consulting Services (RCS), is still thriving 30+ years later, working with individuals, families, corporates and government groups, empowering them to grow productive, profitable agricultural businesses within regenerative landscapes.
I suspect this was what led me down the path of Naturopathy, as the principles of Natural medicine mirror many of those which underpin Regenerative Ag.
After school, I kept my inner gypsy very happy by travelling around and exploring the world before settling in Melbourne to study. After graduating in 2011, my husband and I moved back to sunny Queensland where I owned and operated a successful multi-modality wellness clinic, Gladstone Holistic Health; and in late 2015, I became a Mum (my proudest achievement yet!) and started a new business, Cultivating Wellness.
My husband and I now have two beautiful children and a small farm which allows is to play around with growing our own nutrient-dense, chemical-free food. It’s a work in progress, but our goal is to bring fertility to what was a depleted and barren landscape. We feel it’s our duty as custodians of the land we’re temporarily calling home.
More info about Stacey Curcio : www.cultivatingwellness.com.au
I suspect this was what led me down the path of Naturopathy, as the principles of Natural medicine mirror many of those which underpin Regenerative Ag.
After school, I kept my inner gypsy very happy by travelling around and exploring the world before settling in Melbourne to study. After graduating in 2011, my husband and I moved back to sunny Queensland where I owned and operated a successful multi-modality wellness clinic, Gladstone Holistic Health; and in late 2015, I became a Mum (my proudest achievement yet!) and started a new business, Cultivating Wellness.
My husband and I now have two beautiful children and a small farm which allows is to play around with growing our own nutrient-dense, chemical-free food. It’s a work in progress, but our goal is to bring fertility to what was a depleted and barren landscape. We feel it’s our duty as custodians of the land we’re temporarily calling home.
More info about Stacey Curcio : www.cultivatingwellness.com.au
Grant Sims
Downunder Covers
Downunder Covers
We are a family owned and run business specialising in designing multi-species cover crops, forages and custom made blend seed mixes. We plant 1500ac a year of these multi species blends intergrating our livestock operation as part of our soil health program on our 8500 ac cropping program.
Why We Help
We found from our own experience that cover crops are a low risk, low input way to get maximum production above and below the ground, providing great live weight and animal health gains. In addition, cover crops assist in building soil structure, water infiltration, soil biology, water holding capacity, disease and weed supression.
How We Do It
We source the highest quality bare seed that we can inoculate with worm juice and other microbes to enhance germination and quorm sensing between each species. By using a diversity of root architecture and root exudates, the multi-species are able to explore larger areas of soil, making them far more water and nutrient efficent. Each root system has its own unique ability to unlock and solubilise different minerals and nutrients. When put together in well designed mixes, plants will collaborate through quorum sensing and fungal associations to share and release these minerals and nutrients into the soil. This in turn can provide a greater nutrient density to the animals that graze it, resulting in all round gains and gives the earth a greater chance of sequestering and building soil carbon at depth.
More Info about Grant Sims: www.downundercovers.com
Why We Help
We found from our own experience that cover crops are a low risk, low input way to get maximum production above and below the ground, providing great live weight and animal health gains. In addition, cover crops assist in building soil structure, water infiltration, soil biology, water holding capacity, disease and weed supression.
How We Do It
We source the highest quality bare seed that we can inoculate with worm juice and other microbes to enhance germination and quorm sensing between each species. By using a diversity of root architecture and root exudates, the multi-species are able to explore larger areas of soil, making them far more water and nutrient efficent. Each root system has its own unique ability to unlock and solubilise different minerals and nutrients. When put together in well designed mixes, plants will collaborate through quorum sensing and fungal associations to share and release these minerals and nutrients into the soil. This in turn can provide a greater nutrient density to the animals that graze it, resulting in all round gains and gives the earth a greater chance of sequestering and building soil carbon at depth.
More Info about Grant Sims: www.downundercovers.com
Meet and Greet
Tuesday Evening 4.30pm
Tuesday Evening 4.30pm
You will be able to do your Registration after 4.30pm. If you are not coming until Wednesday, that is fine you can register after 8.00am.
Drover's Choice Saltbush Lamb is produced by grazing lambs on the Australian native Oldman Saltbush. Our saltbush fed lamb has a unique eating flavour which is only achieved from a diet high in protein and natural minerals, which are all available from this special Australian plant.
Ben will be doing Saltbush Lamb and Gravy rolls for everyone. We are looking to serve those who are paleo etc, so you will be covered.
There will be a bar open by ONFD where you can buy a beverage or 2.
If you have not let us know you are coming to Meet and Greet already, please do so below.
Drover's Choice Saltbush Lamb is produced by grazing lambs on the Australian native Oldman Saltbush. Our saltbush fed lamb has a unique eating flavour which is only achieved from a diet high in protein and natural minerals, which are all available from this special Australian plant.
Ben will be doing Saltbush Lamb and Gravy rolls for everyone. We are looking to serve those who are paleo etc, so you will be covered.
There will be a bar open by ONFD where you can buy a beverage or 2.
If you have not let us know you are coming to Meet and Greet already, please do so below.
Access to Online Programs
Once you have made your payment, your membership will be activated within a a day or so.
Note: They are on 2 different platforms.
It is suggested to get the best from the 3 1/2 day program, you go through Nicole's Soil Foundation online program.
The Fred Provenza Masterclass was held in summer of 2021-22 and has 12 modules with a total of about 24 hours of video and audio. ( you can choose how to consume)
There is an app you can put on your phone to easily listen on your device or car.
Note: They are on 2 different platforms.
It is suggested to get the best from the 3 1/2 day program, you go through Nicole's Soil Foundation online program.
The Fred Provenza Masterclass was held in summer of 2021-22 and has 12 modules with a total of about 24 hours of video and audio. ( you can choose how to consume)
There is an app you can put on your phone to easily listen on your device or car.
The 4 Day Itinerary
Note: This may be adapted and changed as appropriate.
| Day One |
| Introduction ~ Grahame, Meagan, Joy, Stacey and Our Facilitators. |
| Nicole's Backstory Let's talk Epigenetics |
| What do we want? How language and culture shape how we see the world around us. |
| Morning tea and chats |
| Meet your facilitator! “Without measurement there is no management.” What do we measure and why? What are soil health indicators? What are plant health indicators? Soil Health Principles |
| What are our soils # enabling factors? Assessment; Mindset, Management, Minerals, Microbes or Management? |
| Lunch |
| Building soil function, cycles- minerals, nitrogen and carbon |
| Case Study- Grant Sims. Using livestock in cropping. Journey into reducing external inputs and building soil health. |
| Afternoon tea |
| Q and A |
| Human health principles and monitoring |
| Group exercise- Farmer B and introduce skit |
| Finish |
| DAY TWO |
| Summary from day before- Meagan and Nicole Skit story from 2 groups |
| Teaming with microbes Review |
| Soil-gut-microbiome Plant/microbial communications. Secondary metabolites. Enzymes. |
| Microbiomes in roots, seeds, leaves |
| Morning Tea |
| Diagnostics- what are your plants telling you? Plant succession Weeds as indicators Leaf/sap testing |
| Lunch |
| The human/gut microbiome- relationships |
| Skit and Farmer B part 2 -prepare for tomorrow |
| Drive to field |
| Field trip Introduction to the land from owner – 10-15mins Visual soil assessments – in trench and then in groups using Soil Mentor Using tools- refractometers Identifying nutrient deficiencies in the field |
| Finish |
| DAY THREE Observations into action |
| Review from day before. Skit story from 2 tables |
| Optimising nutrient cycles- potassium, phosphorus, boron, zinc |
| Morning Tea |
| Bringing the 5 M’s together on your own property - discussions |
| Lunch |
| Using animals as tools for soil health. Grazing principles. Who are you feeding? Dung beetles. Insect biodiversity. Pro/pre-biotics. Minerals and livestock health. Reading cow coats |
| Scoop on poop |
| Stacey- Bristol chart |
| BREAK |
| Differences between extracts, teas, composts, elicitors, enzymes, vitamins. Application principles in action |
| Summary Farmer B introduce part 3 |
| DAY FOUR – Restoration Start |
| Skit from 2 tables from previous day |
| What can be diagnosed from Farmer B data? Is this a fact? |
| Fire or flooding recovery – if this is what is called for? |
| Morning tea |
Summing it all up
What you want and how does this align with soil health? |
| Transitions, final wind up. |
| 12.30pm Lunch and Hit the Road |
Grahame Rees - Co - Host of the Event
Grahame is an educator of Low Stress Stockhandling and KLR Marketing. His special interest outside doing this work is regenerative agriculture, especially when it comes to education and community.
Having lead 22 producers on a 3 week quest to the USA to learn from some of the best regenerative farmers in the world in 2018 and 2019, he is more enthused than ever to help bring educators like Nicole to Australian producers.
In 2021 Grahame teamed up with Fred Provenza to host a Regen Ag Masterclass which resulted in over 24 hours of video and audio content. He is leading another group to NZ in March 2023 looking at the way Regen NZ farmers operate.
He is looking forward to assisting Nicole to bring her knowledge and skills to The Future is Now - Farming with Integrity event in Orange.
When he is not teaching and training you will find Grahame on a stream or lake somewhere, fly fishing with his wife Ros.
Grahame is an educator of Low Stress Stockhandling and KLR Marketing. His special interest outside doing this work is regenerative agriculture, especially when it comes to education and community.
Having lead 22 producers on a 3 week quest to the USA to learn from some of the best regenerative farmers in the world in 2018 and 2019, he is more enthused than ever to help bring educators like Nicole to Australian producers.
In 2021 Grahame teamed up with Fred Provenza to host a Regen Ag Masterclass which resulted in over 24 hours of video and audio content. He is leading another group to NZ in March 2023 looking at the way Regen NZ farmers operate.
He is looking forward to assisting Nicole to bring her knowledge and skills to The Future is Now - Farming with Integrity event in Orange.
When he is not teaching and training you will find Grahame on a stream or lake somewhere, fly fishing with his wife Ros.
Bring about 1 Kg of Your Best Soil Sample
Joy McClymont has a great idea, if everyone could bring a 1 Kg bag of soil, we will build a glass vase layer of soils.
As a registered attendee to the Nicole Masters Workshop, we'd like to visually showcase the diversity of people, regions and soil by asking you to bring along
1kg bag sample of you best soil.
Clearly labelled with your: - Name- Region- State - Soil Type
You are more than welcome to bring along more than 1 type.
Thank you kindly for your contribution in making this workshop informative, inspiring and interactive.
Tools You Can Bring
If you have a Brix Refractometer, Soil Penetrometer or any other tools please bring them.
Joy McClymont has a great idea, if everyone could bring a 1 Kg bag of soil, we will build a glass vase layer of soils.
As a registered attendee to the Nicole Masters Workshop, we'd like to visually showcase the diversity of people, regions and soil by asking you to bring along
1kg bag sample of you best soil.
Clearly labelled with your: - Name- Region- State - Soil Type
You are more than welcome to bring along more than 1 type.
Thank you kindly for your contribution in making this workshop informative, inspiring and interactive.
Tools You Can Bring
If you have a Brix Refractometer, Soil Penetrometer or any other tools please bring them.
Venue:
The event is at the Orange National Field Day Function centre 15 kms west of Orange. We will have easy access to the outdoor activities as well as a great indoor venue.
This means there will be plenty of car parking for those driving.
If you are flying in, I am sure we will be able to hook you up with a ride and if you indicated
you would like to be picked up at the airport, when you registered we will be in touch.
The event is at the Orange National Field Day Function centre 15 kms west of Orange. We will have easy access to the outdoor activities as well as a great indoor venue.
This means there will be plenty of car parking for those driving.
If you are flying in, I am sure we will be able to hook you up with a ride and if you indicated
you would like to be picked up at the airport, when you registered we will be in touch.
Caravan and Camping Powered Sites:
The event is at the Orange National Field Day venue has limited powered sites for camping and caravans.
There is a shower and toilet block.
The Cost is $35 per night per site with caravans, campers, RV and tents being accommodated.
The facilities has power for every site and showers and toilets available.
To book a site please send an email to jwest@anfd.com.au stating your name, number of nights and number of people.
Payment details will be sent to you for confirmation of booking.
The event is at the Orange National Field Day venue has limited powered sites for camping and caravans.
There is a shower and toilet block.
The Cost is $35 per night per site with caravans, campers, RV and tents being accommodated.
The facilities has power for every site and showers and toilets available.
To book a site please send an email to jwest@anfd.com.au stating your name, number of nights and number of people.
Payment details will be sent to you for confirmation of booking.
Meet and Greet Tuesday Evening 11th April from 4.30pm:
We will be open for registrations for anyone coming in the day before at the venue.
Ben from Drovers Choice Saltbush Lamb will be doing Lamb and Gravy rolls (or an alternate for dietary requirements).
This is included in your tuition fee.
There will be a bar opened by the facility for you to purchase the beverage of you choice.
This will be a great opportunity to meet and chat with many of those attending the week. Don't worry, if you are not coming in on the Wednesday morning you can register then.
3 1/2 Day Workshop
Each day will start at 9.00am and finish around 5.00pm so you have plenty of time to chat after the day.
Please note we may adapt and change the itinerary and finish times based on the group.
Smoko and Lunch is included in your tuition.
We will be open for registrations for anyone coming in the day before at the venue.
Ben from Drovers Choice Saltbush Lamb will be doing Lamb and Gravy rolls (or an alternate for dietary requirements).
This is included in your tuition fee.
There will be a bar opened by the facility for you to purchase the beverage of you choice.
This will be a great opportunity to meet and chat with many of those attending the week. Don't worry, if you are not coming in on the Wednesday morning you can register then.
3 1/2 Day Workshop
Each day will start at 9.00am and finish around 5.00pm so you have plenty of time to chat after the day.
Please note we may adapt and change the itinerary and finish times based on the group.
Smoko and Lunch is included in your tuition.
The event is being co-ordinated by Ashley Boston.
Please direct all enquiry's to Ashley
Please direct all enquiry's to Ashley
An invoice will be emailed to you 8 weeks prior to the event.
Any questions or enquiry, please contact Ashley Boston -
hello@ashleybostonhq.com
Any questions or enquiry, please contact Ashley Boston -
hello@ashleybostonhq.com
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