Kay Baxter has been an organic gardener for 50 years is the co-founder of the Koanga Institute. She has a vast knowledge of home gardening, nutrient dense food production and the links between regenerative food growing and human health.

The Institute and its founders have brought together, New Zealand’s largest collection of NZ heritage vegetable seeds, over 800, and a northern bio-regional heritage fruit tree and national berries collection of over 400 over a 30 year period.

Today I took an angle with Kay around regenerative agriculture. We spoke about the human health, food health, soil health cycle and had a discussion about how farmers would benefit from integrating these systems into their land to give better results while helping the world with carbon and producing more nutrient dense foods. Kay is so passionate, informed and has so much knowledge to share - it's inspiring!

We talk so often about plants using the nutrients in the soil, but how often do you think about the goodness plants put back into the soil?