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Can Cover Cropping Heal Abused Soil? A Mad Farm Reflection

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I’ve seen the synthesis of diversity, in plants and practice, stimulate ecosystem processes to yield the benefits that have accrued to this feral garden. Plant a cover crop and, bingo, you’re a regenerative farmer. We know that industrial monocultures achieve high yields for global markets. By Andy Clark. SARE Outreach, 2015.

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Carbon Farming in Central and Southern Appalachia

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These practices include managed or adaptive grazing, silvopastures, forest farming, field borders and buffers, hedgerows, riparian area development or expansion, cover crops, and crop rotation. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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Practicing Resurrection: Using Green Manures on a Small Semi-Urban Homestead

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The planting window for these crops is broad here in the upper mid-Atlantic, and I can get a decent cover of perhaps three inches of resilient green leaves prior to the deep winter freeze. What’s more, it comes on strong in the early spring yielding loads of plant biomass and unparalleled nutrition for summer crops.

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