Tag Archives: Cover Crops

Doubling Down on Soil Health: Healthy Soils Week 2021

by Sarah Castle, Ryan Flaherty, Elliot Grant and Christa Harader Happy Healthy Soils Week! We’re thrilled to join the California Department of Food and Agriculture in highlighting this year’s theme: Solutions from Soil: Improving California’s Drought Resilience. Healthy soils are critical for drought-resilient agriculture and to combat climate change. Farming practices like cover cropping, compost application, and…

Science Brief: Water Solutions in our Soil

Sustainable Conservation’s Elliot Grant and Kelli McCune work diligently to sleuth out soil health and conservation incentive solutions. We hope you enjoy this excerpt from the latest issue of our Thrive California newsletter. We can support healthy soils – and the water quality and climate solutions they provide – by bringing a time-worn method back…