If you have been growing cover crops for
several years and would like to share your system/insight with the “world”
we would like to consider featuring you and your work in the upcoming new
edition of “Managing
Cover Crops Profitably” that was issued in 1997.
Here is the document on line:
http://www.sare.org/publications/covercrops/covercrops.pdf.
Please review this if you think you would like to
participate as an organic grower and one who uses cover crops intensely in your
system(s).
Please let me know if you would like to be featured so we
can connect all the dots so it can happen.
For those who would like to know a little more about cover
crops or need some guidance on including cover crops in your system this is an
excellent resource (the pdf link above).
Vicki Morrone
Organic Vegetable and
Crop Specialist
C.S. Mott Group for
Sustainable Food Systems
CARRS Departent of
Community, Agriclture, Recreation and Resource Studies
303 Natural Resources
Bldg
Phone: 517-353-3542
Cell: 517-282-3557
FAX 517-353-3834
E-Mail: [log in to unmask]
Don’t
forget! A carrot a day may keep the doctor away but an ORGANIC carrot a
day,
grown
locally will taste good, support your farmer neighbor AND may keep the doctor
away!!!
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006
11:13:19 -0500
From: Andy Clark
<[log in to unmask]>
Subject: [SARE-PDP] SAN seeks cover crop experts and reviewers
SARE colleagues:
We are
planning to revise the SAN book, "Managing Cover Crops Profitably."
This will involve fact-checking existing information and adding new knowledge
gained since we researched the book in 1996-1997. See the complete book online
at http://www.sare.org/publications/covercrops/covercrops.pdf.
I am
seeking cover crop experts in your state. Please forward this message and/or
reply to me with contact information for anyone (researchers,
Extension/educators, and/or farmers) who fit the bill. Please send replies
directly to me ([log in to unmask]).
1)
Cover crop experts. We plan to list cover crop experts in the appendix. See
Appendix F, pp. 173-179 in the second edition. Experts should be willing to
respond to calls or e-mails about cover crops. We will not list anyone without
their permission.
2)
Innovative farmers. Do you know or work with an innovative farmer or rancher
whom we might profile in the book?
3)
Reviewers. We need several researchers, educators and farmers to review and
fact-check every cover crop chapter. You will have ample time until late summer
to review and fact check. The chapters are short -- 4-9 pages -- so the time
commitment to review one or two cover crop species is not great. Reviewers will
receive a complimentary copy of the finished book.
Please
see the list of cover crop species below and indicate what cover crops you or
your recommended expert might review. Please include contact information!
________
I would like to be listed as an expert in the book. (SAN will be back in touch
about your listing).
________
A really great farmer to profile:
_______________________________________________
________
I can review chapters on the following cover crop species:
__________________________
__________________________
__________________________
__________________________
Annual
Ryegrass
Barley
Oats
Cereal
Winter wheat
Buckwheat
Sorghum Sudangrass
BRASSICAS
(we plan to add a this chapter)
Berseem
Clover
Cowpeas
Crimson Clover
Field Peas
Hairy Vetch
Medics
Red Clover
Subterranean Clover
Sweetclover
White Clover
Woolypod Vetch
Thanks. Please send replies directly to me ([log in to unmask]).
Andy Clark, Ph.D.
Sustainable Agriculture Network
Bldg. 046 BARC-WEST
PH: 301-504-6425
FX: 301-504-5207
E: [log in to unmask]
http://www.sare.org