John Jeavons Blogs on Overwintering Cover Crops!

Cover Cropping is one of the best ways gardeners can take care of their soil, by growing large amounts of compost materials and a significant amount of calories, while "covering" the soil for the winter, and we at Ecology Action have been doing continuous research on this particular technique since 1972.

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