Love the focus on sunlight harvesting!! All new energy here on earth comes from our sun, and photosynthesis is the (people's) gateway to accessing free power!
This video is the most comprehensive explanation for the use of cover crop, no tillage methods I've ever seen. Thank you so much, Dale!! You are awesome for your expertise and explanation of saving the planet. I also practice deep mulch, no till and some cover cropping in a half acre garden. We have cows which are rotated in paddocks, broadcast clover, and no medication. Our cows are too fat, and are very tasty. I'm still building up the garden with leaves, wood chip paths, and all the mulch from grass, weeds, and compost from kitchen and chickens. I attribute the most of my garden success to some cover cropping, and wood chips, giving aeration and material breakdown of chips. I'm sure the microbiology is more pronounced because our plot gets better each year. Thanks again!
Thank you so much for sharing this! I am studying Natural Resources at Oregon State University with a minor in soil science. I am most likely going to be moving to the Denver area June 2024 and trying to learn more about the management of Colorado's soils.
I don’t think any one practice should be a one size fits all best practice. I plant many different cover crops depending on what’s going in the bed after some chop and drop, some living mulch, some tilled in for biomass. I will always plant winter rye in the fall and chop and drop in the spring before planting melons and pumpkins mostly for the mulching purposes and after the harvest cover with a silage tarp. It all comes down to proper crop rotation on your bed and what you are trying to accomplish.
