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NOFA Guides Set: Crop Rotation and Cover Cropping: Soil Resiliency and Health on the Organic Farm (Organic Principles and Practices Handbook Series)
Seth Kroeck
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Description for NOFA Guides Set: Crop Rotation and Cover Cropping: Soil Resiliency and Health on the Organic Farm (Organic Principles and Practices Handbook Series)
Paperback.
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
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Chelsea Green Publishing
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
White River Junction, United States
ISBN
9781603583459
SKU
V9781603583459
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-30
About Seth Kroeck
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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