Category Archives: Cover Crops

Trying high-residue no-till on a budget

Update 4/1/15: Since writing this post originally, I have received feedback from a few people that this system has been hard to implement effectively. It takes a lot of weight to crimp the cover crops, there can be a good … Continue reading

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The website will go on, but this project is ending…

When Ray and I were discussing what the domain name for this website should be, he came up with notillveggies.org (or .com– we got both, actually). I’m a little weird and the word “veggies” bugs me because I prefer to call them … Continue reading

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Under Cover: Rotational No-till and Mulching Systems for Organic Vegetable Farms in Germany

It sounds like there was a great turnout for Jan’s eOrganic webinar on the cut-and-carry mulch system he and his colleagues are using for organic vegetable production in Germany. My favorite quote: “You can completely screw up the system and … Continue reading

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Mark your calendars and get ready for an information deluge from Germany

Back in 2013, Ray and I got an inquiry from “a farmer in Germany” who was preparing a seminar on soil health and reduced tillage and wanted more information on what we were doing. He did not send a picture … Continue reading

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Can garlic planting get any better? Yes.

I think most vegetable farmers will agree that planting garlic is one of the most satisfying farm chores. There’s something about the end of the season also being the beginning of the next. It’s also one of the most common crops … Continue reading

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Peer-reviewed: you can grow no-till spinach after winterkilled forage radish

I love a good story; in fact, we all love a good story. Scientists have shown that narratives hold a sort of “privileged status” in human cognition over logical communication, which is the form that most science writing takes. A … Continue reading

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Grazing cover crops, manure concerns, and bringing cover crops to your own dinner table

If you got your cover crops in early, you might be looking at lush, verdant fields now.* I find that this lushness tends to make farmers either want to feed their animals or feed people, especially when it’s a cover … Continue reading

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