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

by Seth Kroeck, Jocelyn Langer (Illustrator)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781603583466
Publisher:	Rizzoli
Publication date:	04/15/2011
Series:	Organic Principles and Practices Handbook Series
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	96
File size:	1 MB

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.

Table of Contents

1. Historical roots
2. Thinking beyond this season's cash crop
3. What is a good rotation?
4. The economics of rotations and cover cropping
5. Two on-farm examples