SARE’s newest book, the fourth edition of Building Soils for Better Crops, is updated to reflect new science and developments in soil health.

A new Soil Health Partnership Report shows that farmers are using diverse strategies to plant a range of cover crop species.

Visit Okies for Monarchs’ website for a list of nurseries and seed houses that are still open for business. This way, you can do your part to keep the COVID-19 pandemic from becoming yet another factor in pollinator declines.

All ATTRA publications are now free.  The organization has eliminated its paywall, so that you can download as many PDFs as you’d like at no cost.

This week we planted cool-season cover crops on the Cannon Horticulture Plots: a mixture of grain rye, hairy vetch and Alsike clover. For a wealth of resources on how and why we use cover crops, have a look at our cover crops/crop rotation page.