Technical Assistance for Continuous Living Cover Agricultural Practices

Abstract

This report explores opportunities to improve agricultural practices that improve soil health and retention while benefiting farmers, specifically by improving training for providers of technical assistance. Focused on technical assistance for agricultural practices known as continuous living cover (CLC), CLC is the idea that you always have something alive in the soil: not just mulch, and not just summer commodity crops, but living roots at all times. Research for this report includes a review of relevant literature and a survey conducted by Green Lands Blue Waters, but the primary source of this report’s findings is a collection of interviews with 11 individuals connected in various ways to soil health technical assistance.