In late September 2024, the GLBW Team (Erin, Aaron, Evelyn), Dr. Akilah Martin and 11 of our 12 mentees traveled to Wendy Johnson’s Joia Food and Fiber Farm in Charles City, Iowa for a two-day farm visit. A huge thank you to Evelyn Reilly’s very detailed mapping of our routes to connect in Charles City,…
Applications for 2025 are now open! Applications for another cohort of this program beginning in Spring 2025 are now open! Are you a grad student or similar stage emerging leader interested in a career in agriculture and conservation? Are you ready to explore your purpose and possible career paths in a supportive environment that includes…
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…
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…
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!
Farmer Success Stories One of the best ways to understand what continuous living cover crops and cropping systems can look like on the landscape is to hear directly from the farmers themselves. Read on for several CLC success stories from the farmer’s perspective.
November 19-20, 2019 – Graduate Hotel, Minneapolis, MN THEME – Over, Under, Through to CLC: Strong partners, new allies, and fresh perspectives moving continuous living cover (CLC) farming forward Click here for the GLBW 2019 Conference Summary Report Click here for Conference Agenda Click here for Speaker Bios Conference Recap Video The way we farm…
