Building Relationships – Listening for Common Ground – Integrating Crops & Livestock This project is a collaboration among groups that don’t always get to work together: crop and livestock associations, universities, public agencies, and conservation organizations. We’re finding common ground and putting our heads together to move shared interests forward. We hope you’ll join in…
Over GLBW’s first decade, a strong framework of regional collaborations was established around five types of CLC cropping strategies: agroforestry, cover crops, perennial biomass, perennial forage, and perennial grains. Our work is still framed by these strategies with a few minor shifts to better reflect our current foci with active partners and to update descriptive…
I appreciate the way GLBW has a broader vision that brings people and sectors together around cross-cutting issues of environmental quality and social sustainability. The Continuous Living Cover framing encompasses diverse farming systems, from conventional grain farmers thinking of trying cover crops to committed graziers and agroforesters. The focus on the Mississippi watershed brings together… Read More →
Congratulations Fall 2024 Cohort! Applications open for Spring 2025. Congratulations to the incredible mentee cohort chosen to participate in this program for Fall 2024. Scroll down to learn more. Applications for another cohort of this program beginning in Spring 2025 are open on a rolling bases. Are you a grad student or similar stage…
Continuous Living Cover 101 is a self-paced, online course for agricultural, conservation, and technical assistance professionals – as well as anyone else who is curious to learn more about CLC! Continuous Living Cover 101 introduces the concept, describes five basic strategies (annuals + cover crops, agroforestry, perennial grains, perennial forage and grazing, and perennial biomass)…
This is an archived site for the 2022-2023 cohort. For information on the 2024-2024 site, click here. Congratulations to the 2022-2023 Equipping next gen ag and conservation professionals mentorship program cohort Thank you and congratulations to the incredible mentees and other partners in this program! You can find final mentee communication projects on the…
Thank you, Green Lands Blue Waters partners. We did a lot together in 2021! The Green Lands Blue Waters network demonstrates the economic, environmental, and social benefits of CLC farming and creates an environment where these crops and systems are competitive and thriving! Check out the kinds of things we’ve accomplished with researchers, agencies, nonprofits,…
Special CLC Research Topic through Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems GLBW’s Continuous Living Cover Research Topic special collection of research articles focusing on Continuous Living Cover is available online, open access! The Research Topic is in the Agroecology and Ecosystem Services section of Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. Continuous Living Cover (CLC) refers to agricultural…
Partner Spotlight: Dr. Katherine Frels – Wintry Breeder (Oct 2021) Early this year, Dr. Katherine Frels left her position as Research Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics and moved “south” to work on small grains breeding and genetics in the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture at the…
Find here communication tools for your own outreach about making the case for continuous living cover agriculture – case studies, reports, analyses, infographics, lit references, media contacts, and more below. Come back often because we are always adding new materials!
