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Person driving a tractor with a roller crimper over a cover crop.

How to grow cover crops on small farms

Cover crops give your soil food and protection. You can plant cover crops in the spring, summer and fall.

A field of hairy vetch and rye cover crops.

Cover Crops: Benefits

A guidebook that simplifies what cover crops are and why they are important.

A field of hairvy vetch and rye is being terminated by a farmer using a BCS.

Cover Crops: How to make a cover crop plan

A guidebook that simplifies how to make a cover crop plan.

Winter Cover Crops

Learn about grass and legume cover crops. These cover crops can grow in cooler weather.

Chart with cover crop types and their benefits.

Cover Crop Decision Making Tool

This tool helps you decide which cover crop family to grow for the benefits you want.

Soil health and cover crop images like mulch, fertility, and microbes next to a column of matching vocabulary words.

Soil Health and Cover Crops Vocabulary

Learn important words to help you communicate and understand new things.

A bag of seeds placed next to a broadcast seeder in front of a prepared field.

How to seed cover crop with a Broadcast Seeder

Learn how to use a Broadcast Seeder to seed cover crop.

Images of three cover crop species growing in the field: Buckwheat, Sorgum Sudan Grass, and Cowpeas.

Cover Crops 1: Which Cover Crops Will You Use?

Learn how to use cover crops in vegetable production and other crop rotation schedules. This lesson covers three major types of cover crops (mustards, legumes, and ‘other’), and the potential

Flashcards of various cover crops as found within this card activity.

Cover Crops Plant Families: Match + Learn Game

Know your cover crop plant families. Rotate crops by family for best soil health for your farm!

Seeds and Seed Mixes

Learn about what a seed mix is, common seed mixes, and the benefits of common cover crop seed types.

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