Search Results

Searched for: cover crops
Show only:   Pages   Agendas   Sessions   Venues   Speakers   Organizations   Templates   SP Testimonials   Show All

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…

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

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,…

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…

Partners

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…

Making the Case for CLC

Find here communication tools for your own outreach about making the case for continuous living cover agriculture – case studies, reports, analyses, infographics, lit references, media contacts, and more below. Come back often because we are always adding new materials!

CLC Farmer Success Stories

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.