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Boost your farm’s health and wealth through strategic crop rotations.
Crop Rotation and Cover Cropping
Soil Resiliency and Health on the Organic Farm
$36.63
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96 pages
- Release Date
25 March 2011
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Summary
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.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781603583459 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1603583459 |
| Author: | Seth Kroeck, Jocelyn Langer |
| Publisher: | Chelsea Green Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Chelsea Green Publishing Co |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 25 March 2011 |
| Weight: | 159g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 153mm x 7mm |
| Series: | Organic Principles and Practices Handbook Series |
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About The Author
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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