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Crop Rotation and Cover Cropping: Soil Resiliency and Health on the Organic Farm by Seth Kroeck

Crop Rotation and Cover Cropping: Soil Resiliency and Health on the Organic Farm by Seth Kroeck

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Crop Rotation and Cover Cropping: Soil Resiliency and Health on the Organic Farm (Revised and Updated) (Nofa Guides Set #2)
Contributor(s): Kroeck, Seth (Author) , Langer, Jocelyn (Illustrator)

ISBN: 1603583459    EAN: 9781603583459
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company   
US SRP: $15.95 US
Binding: Paperback
Copyright Date: 2011
Pub Date: April 15, 2011
Physical Info: 0.24" H x 8.95" L x 6.05" W (0.36 lbs) 96 pages
A Project of the Northeast Organic Farming Association.;Originally published: Barre, MA: Northeast Organic Farming Association Interstate Council, 2004.;Includes bibliographical references (p. [73-75]) and index.

In Crop Rotation and Cover Cropping, you can learn some of the thinking behind--and the actual nuts and bolts of--laying out a rotation for your farm.

This volume, part of the NOFA guides, covers:

  • Historical roots of cover-crop techniques
  • Thinking beyond this season's cash crop (disease and pest reduction, weed suppression, cash vs. cover crops)
  • What is a good rotation? (mapping the farm, grouping crops, sample groupings)
  • The economics of rotations and cover cropping (organizing your work, reducing labor inputs, land and cover-crop seed costs)

Including on-farm examples and detailed appendices.

Seth Kroeck has been working and managing organic farms in the Northeast and California for the past eight years. He is currently working on his own farm, Crystal Spring Community Farm in Brunswick, Maine, with his wife, Maura, and their son, Griffin.
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