Practical experiences implementing Living Mulches in arable and horticultural farming systems
Channel: OrgResCen
Date: 2024-03-27

The Organic Research Centre have been running the Living Mulches project for the past three years to trial the integration of white clover, as a perennial cover crop, into a cash crop rotations through direct drilling. 

Welcome and introduction by ORC's Julia Cooper.
2:39 Project updates & review of soil health data from Green Acres 2023 and how this compares with previous years results. 
 
12:15 Matt England speaks about the living mulch systems he is trialling on the Fring Estate in Norfolk
 
39:00 David Newman explains how he is integrating living mulch systems in his growing operations at Bucksum market garden
 
A discussion followed with participants to share their current challenges with living mulches and to identify gaps that needs to be addressed to aid successfully adoption of living mulches.