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Continuous Living Cover

Over GLBW’s first decade, a strong framework of regional collaborations was established around five types of CLC cropping strategies: agroforestry, cover crops, perennial biomass, perennial forage, and perennial grains. Our work is still framed by these strategies with a few minor shifts to better reflect our current foci with active partners and to update descriptive…

Match Made in Heaven: Livestock + Crops

Building Relationships – Listening for Common Ground – Integrating Crops & Livestock This project is a collaboration among groups that don’t always get to work together: crop and livestock associations, universities, public agencies, and conservation organizations. We’re finding common ground and putting our heads together to move shared interests forward. We hope you’ll join in…

Equipping Next Gen Ag Leaders

Stay tuned! This program will be accepting applications for a new cohort of mentees in Spring 2024. If you’d like to receive an email when applications open, add your name here. Congratulations to the 2022-2023 Equipping next gen ag and conservation professionals mentorship program cohort   Thank you and congratulations to the incredible mentees and other partners in this program! You can find final mentee communication projects on…

Best of GLBW 2021

Thank you, Green Lands Blue Waters partners. We did a lot together in 2021! The Green Lands Blue Waters network demonstrates the economic, environmental, and social benefits of CLC farming and creates an environment where these crops and systems are competitive and thriving! Check out the kinds of things we’ve accomplished with researchers, agencies, nonprofits,…

I appreciate the way GLBW has a broader vision that brings people and sectors together around cross-cutting issues of environmental quality and social sustainability.   The Continuous Living Cover framing encompasses diverse farming systems, from conventional grain farmers thinking of trying cover crops to committed graziers and agroforesters.  The focus on the Mississippi watershed brings together…  Read More

Green Lands Blue Waters weaves together the strands of various strategies for a socially and environmentally improved agriculture. Their tireless staff ensures threads aren’t lost among the network of collaborators, and I am grateful for their work.

The Green Lands, Blue Waters newsletter is a real gem! The stories highlight continuous living cover practices, work of students and researchers, and on-the-ground work being done by farmers and ranchers.

CLC Special Journal

Special CLC Research Topic through Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems GLBW’s Continuous Living Cover Research Topic special collection of research articles focusing on Continuous Living Cover is available online, open access! The Research Topic is in the Agroecology and Ecosystem Services section of Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. Continuous Living Cover (CLC) refers to agricultural…