Rather than fight that using herbicides, we work with nature. We don't harvest our cover crops and we don't make money from them, something that scares a lot of folks. A lot of farmers resist cover crops because they think it'll put part of their land out of commission for a whole season, but that's not true. We pick cover crops that add nitrogen to the soil, feed benevolent microbes, and soak up nutrients that would otherwise leach from our system. Our favorite for weed control.
Buckwheat releases chemicals that prevent weeds from germinating.
When it's time for the next planting, we simply plow our cover crops under and get back to work. The Rodale Institute. Site design by Glenn Hughes . Maintained by Black Box.