A Portfolio of Projects, Workshops & Presentations we have delivered
Extension Resource Development (2024/25)
Researching and writing the Practice Guide on Reducing Herbicides in collaboration with the team at Soils for Life.
This reducing herbicides practice guide outlines practical approaches to lower chemical inputs and adopt alternative weed control strategies.This guide covers the benefits of reducing herbicides, how to start with a range of alternative weed management strategies, and how to monitor whether these strategies are working. Throughout the guide we share examples of how four farmers are reducing herbicides in their diverse operations in Queensland, New South Wales and Western Australia.
This guide is one of ten practice guides developed by Soils for Life that explore cropping practices that build soil health and drought resilience and include case study examples from Australian grain growers.
Farm business coach with the NSW DPI Farm Business Resilience program. Delivering individual and group coaching programs. 2021 - 2025.
Farm Business Coaching program feedback:
“I can't recommend Kim highly enough as a business coach for your farming family. In our short 3 months of working together her expertise in expanding our business plan has been invaluable, especially in areas like OH&S, drought planning, and risk management. Kim's guidance in communication skills and conducting a thorough SWOT analysis has equipped us with tools to progress through the succession process. She provided many relevant resources that will help us navigate challenges with more confidence. Thanks to Kim, we feel more prepared for the future of our farm!” - Alison O’Brien
Northern Tablelands LLS: After the fire: Recovering, Rebuilding & Redesigning workshop, Tingha NSW 2019.
Northern Tablelands LLS: Whole Farm Planning course delivery, Mingoola NSW 2023
Greater Sydney LLS: Whole Farm Planning webinars 2023
Riverina LLS: Whole Farm Planning course delivery, Wagga Wagga 2024 and 2025.
Hunter LLS: Design Your Farm workshop series, Taree and Gloucester, 2025.
Design Your Farm workshop participants describe these workshops as “easy to understand and implement”, “interactive and informative”, “brilliant group interaction”, “valuable content and discussions”, “a tremendous day”.
Soil Health Workshop supported by Bellinger Landcare (2023)
Kim Deans delivered this workshop exploring how to observe and monitor soil health in the field, how we bring our soils back to life by nurturing the soil food web, our regenerative capacity as women on the land and taking a holistic approach to support our wellbeing.
Grow Well workshop series supported by NSW DPI (2023 - 2024)
Kim Deans contributed to this series of workshops with sessions on:
Getting to the heart of soil health restoration: A step by step process for creating a soil restoration strategy for your context, building our personal capacity to bring soils back to life.
Visioning
Aligning to our values for clarity, confidence & contentment.
Participants described these workshops as “amazing”, “:supportive”, “educational”, “inspiring”, “enriching”, “self - soil”.
Conference presentation (2019): TransFARMation - keys to transforming the way we farm. Watch here
Recover - Restore - Regenerate event. Natural Disaster Recovery & building resilience for future climate extremes. Kempsey 2021.
Interpreting soil tests for regenerative outcomes webinar 2021. Watch here.
Cultivating Success: Keys to Implementing Regenerative Practices. One Day workshop, Harndorf, South Australia. 2024
“Our participants' feedback has shown Kim's courses consistently exceed their expectations and provide a positive and easily adopted set of tools to begin their own journey in regenerative agriculture.” - Alex Mitchell, General Manager NASAA Organic
Contributor and co-collaborator: Gwymac Landcare’s Mastering Soil Health Together Community of Practice.
Contributor: Regenerative Agriculture Community of Practice
Weeds as indicators presentation, Inverell 2021
Teaming with Microbes workshop, Inverell 2021
Bringing Soils to Life workshop (2024)
Farm Field Day, Bowraville (2025): Soil biological health and assessing soil health in the field.
Green Triangle Farming Group Soils Benchmarking Project (2020 - 2023) read more here
What lies beneath workshop, Gravesend NSW 2021: Getting to know your underground livestock, Is your farm addicted to inputs?
Farm Planning 2 day workshop (2022)
Upper Horton Soils workshop & coaching visits (2022)
Weeds as Indicators of Soil Health workshop (2023)
Business of Biodiversity field day presentation on soil biology (2023)
Rainfall Use Efficiency webinar (2023) watch recording here
Planning for Success with Multispecies Plantings webinar (2024) watch recording here
Weeds As Indicators - What Story Are They Telling You? Webinar (2024) watch recording here
Regrouping after disaster: a three part webinar series delivered for the NSW DPI Farm Business Resilience Program, 2022.
Watch webinar 1 Plan for Success here
Coaching with THE Rural Woman Full Bloom Program (2016)
Seed Scheme Group Facilitator (2020)
Program development, delivery & facilitation (2021 - 2022): Platefull: regenerative agriculture program.
Women in Agriculture group coaching: Dairy Australia, Activating women in dairy program (2021/2022); Digital Mavens Program (2022).
THE Rural Woman Members training delivery on systems thinking, time management, regenerative agriculture.
Platefull Program Participants feedback:
“I have been educated, empowered and inspired by Platefull. The topics have been relevant and interesting and exactly what I needed. It has been an amazing platform to learn, grow and connect with other rural women and has given me the confidence to develop and follow my vision.”
“The connection with others has been incredibly valuable. The women have been authentic, honest and raw and I have been educated, empowered and inspired by them all. I can’t recommend it highly enough, and Kim Deans is a fountain of wisdom, and so absolutely kind and supportive. The calls have actually become the highlight of my week!”
Delivering Soil Health Coaching & Educational workshops for Integrity Soils Australian clients (2018 - 2021)
A project led by NSW Department of Primary Industries and funded by Meat & Livestock Australia.
Reinventing Agriculture provided coaching site visits with core producers (2021 & 2023)
Field day presentation on soil biology (2023)
Webinar presentation on Farm Financial Management for Regenerative Transitions (2023).
Byron Shire Council Agricultural Extension program webinar: Weeds as Indicators of Soil Health (2023).
Building Resilient Agricultural Systems on Kangaroo Island: Regenerative Agriculture Project Demonstrations sites. Provide webinars & coaching (2020-2023)
Soil health assessments & coaching for farmers involved in the project: Improving soil health & farm productivity by activating soil biology on dairy farms. (2019 - 2021)
Central Burnett Landcare
Soils to regenerate production systems workshop, Munduberra QLD 2021
Rain on Farm$: take advantage of rainfall, enhance farm production & profit through better soils, webinar 2021. Watch recording here
Virtual Conference presentation: Climate Smart Farming Forum 2021: Harnessing ecosystem processes including the importance of biodiversity in relation to building resilience in farming systems to better cope with climate variability.
East Gippsland Small Property Network: Basics of Healthy Soils for the small property owner webinar, 2021. Watch recording here
Tune up your Agro-ecosystems webinar: A holistic view of soil health, 2020.
Weeds as Indicators webinar presentation, 2020
Northern Gulf NRM. Is your farm addicted to inputs workshop. Mareeba QLD 2019.
Angus Deans co-presented at Biodynamics for the Home Orchard workshops for 6 years from 2013 - 2019.