Cover crops slow erosion, improve soil health, smother weeds, enhance nutrient and moisture availability, help control pests, and bring a host of other benefits to your garden. This class will address what cover crops to use in your garden, when and how to plant and terminate them, and what benefits you can expect to reap from adding cover crops to your home garden.
Teacher
Dr. Andy Clark has been working with cover crops for almost 30 years, and he has been using cover crops in his community garden for just as long. Ten years of university cover crop research addressed nitrogen and soil water dynamics using grass and legume cover crops. Currently the communications director of a USDA program in sustainable agriculture (www.sare.org), he is the editor of several editions of the SARE book, Managing Cover Crops Profitably.
