Soil Health Shop Talk: Knowing When to Scale Back Inputs
When Do You Stop Leaning on Fungicides and Fertilizer? This Virtual Meet-Up Has Answers
One of the hardest calls in regenerative farming is knowing when to let go — when your soil has built enough resilience to carry less chemical support. That question sits at the heart of this week’s Good Idea Shop Talk, and it’s exactly the kind of practical, high-stakes conversation our community needs more of.
What to Expect
Pitched by Minnesota producer Brady Wulf, Week 3 of this free virtual series tackles a question many transitioning producers wrestle with in silence: as you shift a field toward a soil health intensive system, how do you know when it’s time to pull back on fungicide applications, traited corn varieties, and synthetic fertilizer inputs? There’s no single formula — and that’s precisely why peer exchange matters so much here.
This isn’t a lecture or a sales pitch. It’s a producer-to-producer conversation where real decisions, real doubts, and real field data are on the table. Whether you’re mid-transition and second-guessing your timeline, or still weighing whether to start, you’ll leave with perspectives you won’t find in an agronomist’s bulletin.
Practical Details
- Date: Thursday, 20 August 2026
- Format: Virtual (online)
- Region: Kansas-based series, open to producers everywhere
- Cost: Free
- Organiser: Kansas Soil Health (kssoilhealth.org)
No travel required. Just show up with your questions and your experience.
Why It Matters
Permaculture has always understood that true soil regeneration is a process of reducing dependence — on external inputs, on chemical interventions, on systems that bypass the living web beneath our feet. But knowing the right pace for that reduction is systems thinking in practice. When producers share honest, land-based knowledge across regions and farm types, they build something more durable than any single technique: a culture of observation, adaptation, and mutual accountability. That’s regenerative agriculture working the way it should.
How to Get Involved
- Register now via the link below — it’s free and takes less than two minutes.
- Bring a question or a challenge from your own land or practice; the format rewards participation over passive listening.
- Share this with a producer in your network who’s been wondering about the same transition — this kind of peer space is rare, and the more voices, the richer the conversation.
Resources
- 🔗 Register for Good Idea Shop Talk: Week 3
- 📅 Find more upcoming permaculture and regenerative agriculture events at permanews.com
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