Cover Cropping - Climate Smart Agricultural Practices Video 3

Want to improve your soil health? Learn how cover crops might be your answer. Dave Redfearn (Where the Redfearn Grows Natural Farm), Curtis Millsap (Millsap Farm), and Jason Hirtz (Box Turtle Farms) utilize cover crops to feed microorganisms year-round, fight erosion, add organic matter, break soil-borne pathogen cycles, outcompete weeds, and converting pastureland into production. They also share their own preferred varieties of cover crops and termination methods.
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Key Topics:
Increase biological activity in soil, fix and retain nutrients, improve organic matter, weed suppression, erosion control, beneficial habitat for pollinators, cover crops (onion, leek, carrot, spinach, cereal rye, Austrian winter pea, rye, vetch, sorghum-sudangrass, sudex, buckwheat), terminating cover crops (mowing, rolling and crimping, flaming, spading or tilling, tarping with plastic, winter kill, grazing).
Special thanks to all the local farms who generously shared for this video series:
Jason Hirtz, Box Turtle Farm: www.boxturtlefarm.farm/about-us/
Curtis Millsap, Millsap Farms: www.millsapfarms.com/about
Tom Riggeri, Fair Share Farm: fairsharefarm.com/wp2/
Dave Redfearn, Where the Redfearn Grows Natural Farm: redfearnfarm.com/
Karin Valez, Wolf Creek Family Farm: www.wolfcreekfamilyfarm.com/
Ryan Tenney, Sankara Farm: www.sankarafarm.com/on-the-farm
Editors note: spelling CORRECTION - Tom Ruggieri with Fair Share Farm