Cover crops reduce erosion, improve soil health, suppress weeds, support biodiversity, and can increase following-year crop yields while some provide forage or marketable harvests.
Planting soil-feeding cover crops before fall and winter improves soil structure, increases nutrient availability, prevents erosion, and enhances on-farm biodiversity.
Season-extension methods like low tunnels, cold frames, and cloches enable fall and early-winter production of quick-growing crops, hardy greens, roots, and cover crops.
