Cover Crops

Cover crops for your garden or fields provides benefits for building soil health and retaining nutrients in the soil for successive crops.

Regardless of what is growing - flowers, vegetables, grass or crops, soil should have a living cover for as many months of the year as possible.

7 benefits of cover Crops:

Reduce erosion or loss of topsoil
Reduce compaction
Reduce runoff, leaching and volatilization of nutrients
Improve soil organic matter
Improves water infiltration and drainage
Improves soil structure retention
Provides microbiome food and a stable environment

Using the principles of feeding the soil to feed the plants, sustainability can improve dramatically. The bacteria, fungi and other microbes living in the soil create a symbiotic relationship with the plants growing. Once a good balance of soil pH, organic matter, Cation exchange capacity and nutrients are stabilized in the soil over time, the balance becomes easier to maintain and the soil health improvements are evident in less weed and pathogen pressure, healthier crops, higher yields, and less input costs. Symbiosis occurs when healthy soils are able to support more beneficial microbe populations which in turn can break down and provide the growing plants nutrients that are already present in the soil and from the microbial waste stream. In other words, happy, healthy soil microbes, provide food and an ideal soil substrate for healthy productive plants.

Feed the microbes to feed the plants!

Ask us about soil testing and a plan to help improve the health of your soil!

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