Cover Crops
HOMESTEADucation - A podcast by Angela and Mandi

Season 3: Cover Crops Cover crops are a form of vegetation that is grown in raised beds, in-ground gardens, and animal grazing paddocks to improve soil fertility and tilth. These crops are not harvested for use but are left within the soil. Most often, cover crops are chopped and dropped before seed-set in order to return nutrients to the soil and prevent unwanted spreading. A lot of folks call cover crops the no cash- cash crop. We don’t harvest it so I think it’s widely underused. Peo...