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Living Mulch Cover Cropping for Gardens and Small Farms: Managing an “organic matter” system

ATTRA

He would let the cover crop grow and overwinter and then plow down the following spring for green manure. Now it becomes a perennial living mulch to direct seed or transplant cash crops into. Instead, I can terminate my winter cover and lightly plow it in this spring, put out my transplants, and undersow white clover.

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Breaking Ground: The Pros and Cons of Reduced-Till Farming

Cropaia

Traditional plowing or tilling can disrupt the soil structure, making it more susceptible to erosion. The presence of crop residues provides a protective environment for weed seeds, allowing them to persist on the field’s surface. Over time, they improve soil structure, reduce erosion, and increase soil moisture retention.

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Making Farm Ownership (Or Rental) Possible For Young Farmers

Farmbrite

These days, farming is a lot more than just plowing the field and planting seeds. Farming also includes marketing your goods, managing finances and employees, keeping up with technology —and that's just the beginning. They can also be used for livestock purchases such as cows or pigs.

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Natural Senescence

ATTRA

The garden wants to go to sleep, and I tuck it in with a blanket of cover crops… my favorite seed mix of vetch, rye, and clover. As my tomato plants were more than ready to be set out, I had to get the cover cut, chopped, and plowed into the soil in preparation for transplanting. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

Crop 52
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Sustainability in a Shell: How Snail Farms are Providing a Low-Impact Protein Alternative

Agritecture Blog

These pens are seeded with leafy greens that provide food and a hospitable environment for the development of the snails. Setting up the farm was a challenge for Mattia - the physical labor was exhausting, and additionally, Mattia was not familiar with plowing, crop production, or other farm procedures. It is located on 1.2

Farming 52
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Climate savior or ‘Monsanto of the sea’?

Food Environment and Reporting Network

The MIT Technology Review published a pair of articles critical of the general idea and of Running Tide specifically. Welcome got her start building a movement of young farmers before becoming enraptured by seaweed, “beings that haven’t been corralled, that haven’t been weeded or bred or contained or plowed up,” she said.

Science 52
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Federal Climate Policy: Agriculture Resilience Act Re-Introduced

CalCAN

From losing seed crops as wildfires rage for weeks, to losing entire crops as a result of erratic freezes, to losing farms as drought dries up available water, farmers’ risks are rising. CalCAN is a member of NSAC and played a part in developing the original version of the Agriculture Resilience Act.