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

Kroeck, Seth; Langer, Jocelyn

ISBN 10: 1603583459 / ISBN 13: 9781603583459

Published by Chelsea Green, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Crop Rotation and Cover Cropping: Soil Resiliency and Health on the Organic Farm
• Publisher: Chelsea Green
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1603583459
• ISBN 13: 9781603583459
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Langer, Jocelyn
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.