Month: January 2018

Early season straw mulch and clover cover crop.                         Benefits of Cover Cropping My husband and I were fortunate enough to enroll in a course sponsored by Cultivating Success (http://www.cultivatingsuccess.org/) and Rural Roots (http://www.ruralroots.org/) back in January 2016.  It was called How to Start a Sustainable Farm in Idaho.  This fantastic course was spread over six Saturdays.  The agenda topics included everything from developing crop budgets to various livestock species.  Throughout the course, we were developing our whole farm plan which would be the initial guiding document for our …