Doug Voss - The Shovel Test: Simple Signals of Regenerative Progress

Soil health educator and Soil Health Academy co-founder Doug Voss joins Holy Crop! It’s Farmageddon from Minnesota to argue that soil health is less a technical problem than a mindset problem. We talk why carbon is the currency, what you can learn with a shovel test, how integrating animals changes everything, and why the first step is often to stop doing what isn’t working - before buying something to fix it.Doug Voss is a regenerative agriculture educator and consultant based in Minnesota, and the co-founder of the Soil Health Academy. He works with farmers to rebuild soil function through biology-first principles, practical observation, and systems thinking.

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