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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. If you live in a high-rainfall climate, I recommend applying straw mulch after seeding to reduce crusting and soil loss.

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

Civil Eats

Grover established a peach orchard in 1935, and cultivated grain and raised livestock until the late 1970s. This morning, while he waits for help, he reaches a pitchfork up into a back compartment of the machine to pull out the straw that got stuck. Oh, what a day, he says. I cant cut wheat until I get that fixed. He nods approvingly.