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Greens as a Secondary Income from your Cash Crop Plants

ATTRA

But did you know that our gardens have delectable green vegetables available for harvesting and consumption while we wait for the fruits to grow. Harvest the leaves when young and tender, as older leaves can be fibrous. Usually, you have them when harvesting large amounts of root carrots for storage.

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Regenerative Gardening, No-Till Winter Cover Crop Strategies

UnderstandingAg

Identifying Opportunities and Planning Successful cover cropping starts with a strong crop plan and requires additional planning around cash-crop termination and no-till seeding methods. The good news is most winter cover crop species can establish in rough ground without a clean seed bed, or any form of soil prep.

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High Tunnel Soil Management for Season Extension

ATTRA

Salts from added compost, manure, or fertilizers can build up in the rain-free environment of a tunnel and accumulate near the soil surface, affecting crop growth. And because tunnel crops are entirely dependent on irrigation water, elevated alkalinity, iron, sodium, or chloride in the water can cause problems in the soil, as well.

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Regenerative Agriculture: A Strategic Approach for Farming

Cropaia

Cover cropping : Cover crops are strategically planted in between cash crops or during fallow periods. Cover crops also support biodiversity and provide habitat for beneficial insects. Proper water management helps conserve this resource and ensures its availability for crops.

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Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

Civil Eats

Isaiah White harvests kale at his familys fifth-generation farm in Warren County, where the U.S. Early Days in the Tobacco Fields Growing up in the 1980s and 90s, Brown helped out on the farm, mostly with the tobacco crop, after school and over summers. Patrick Browns nephew Justice White pauses while harvesting organic purple kale.

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Palestine in the spotlight: The devastation of farming in Gaza and the West Bank

Sustainable Food Trust

Before the conflict, Gazans produced a diverse range of crops despite limited resources, including olives, contributing to an agricultural sector that was worth over $575m a year Agriculture in Gaza had its own issues prior to the war. The UN recorded more than 700 settler attacks on Palestinians since 7 th October.

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