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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.

A no-till mulch garden in progress. Cardboard has been laid out over a lawn of grass, surrounded by bales of straw. To the left of the image is a pile of leaves on a blue tarp.

Create a “No-Dig” Garden with Leaf Mulch

Learn how to use cardboard, straw bales and leaf mulch to
create a new garden space without digging.

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

Cover Crop: Termination Methods

Use this chart to help decide how to terminate your cover crop this season.

Side view of a farmer attaching a tiller to BCS machine

BCS Tiller

You can use a BCS to till garden beds and large plots. You need to know how to put implements on and off to change what you are doing on your farm.

Farmer using broadfork to prepare the soil

Bed Prep by Hand

Learn how to prepare a 30-inch bed for seeds and transplants, without mechanical tillage.