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Crop Rotation and Cover Cropping: Soil Resiliency and Health on the Organic Farm (Organic Principles and Practices Handbook)

Crop Rotation and Cover Cropping: Soil Resiliency and Health on the Organic Farm (Organic Principles and Practices Handbook)

by JocelynLanger (Illustrator), SethKroeck (Author)

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    Paperback 2011

    $16.98
Synopsis

Part of the NOFA guides. This volume 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.

$16.98

Quantity

2 in stock

More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 96
 Edition: Revised
 Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company
Published: 15 Apr 2011
ISBN 10: 1603583459
ISBN 13: 9781603583459

Author Bio
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.