This is an archived site for the 2022-2023 cohort. For information on the 2024-2024 site, click 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 the…
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,…
Partner Spotlight: Dr. Katherine Frels – Wintry Breeder (Oct 2021) Early this year, Dr. Katherine Frels left her position as Research Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics and moved “south” to work on small grains breeding and genetics in the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture at the…
Farmer Success Stories One of the best ways to understand what continuous living cover crops and cropping systems can look like on the landscape is to hear directly from the farmers themselves. Read on for several CLC success stories from the farmer’s perspective.
THEME: OVER, UNDER, THROUGH to CLC – strong partners, new allies, and fresh perspectives moving continuous living cover (CLC) farming forward. The way we farm can be the solution to big challenges – climate, water, wildlife, vibrant rural communities. Attendees at our previous GLBW conference dug deep into robust discussions, highlighting major barriers to increasing CLC across the…
November 29-30, 2016 – University of Missouri Campus, Memorial Union PROGRAM Going Green with Conservation-Based Farming: Market-Based Approaches to Promote Soil Health and Water Quality The 2016 Green Lands Blue Waters conference brings a market-based focus to complement innovative, science-based approaches to conservation of soil and water quality. Landowners react positively when their bottom-line is…
GLBW is a coalition — a network — of many partners working to get Continuous Living Cover on the land. The GLBW network is conducting essential research, improving the genetics of old and new crops, translating knowledge into CLC farming systems, developing new extension and outreach capacity, working in farm fields, shaping policy, building profitable…
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…
