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November 29-30, 2016 – University of Missouri Campus, Memorial Union PROGRAM Going Green with Conservation-Based Farming: Market-Based Approaches to Promote Soil Health and Water Quality The 2016 Green Lands Blue Waters conference brings a market-based focus to complement innovative, science-based approaches to conservation of soil and water quality. Landowners react positively when their bottom-line is…

November 28-29, 2017 – PROGRAM The theme of the 2017 conference was Continuous Living Cover: Bridging the Gaps with Livestock. The conference was hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems (CIAS) and paired with the Savanna Institute’s Perennial Farm Gathering. In its sixth year, the Green Lands Blue Waters Conference was a…

Over, Under, Through to CLC Strong partners, new allies, and fresh perspectives moving continuous living cover (CLC) farming forward. Tuesday, November 19 – Wednesday, November 20, 2019 Graduate Hotel, Minneapolis CONFERENCE AGENDA Registration is now closed       Book your hotel room HERE The hotel block has closed but contact the Graduate for availability. Parking…

Staff Erin Meier is Director of Green Lands Blue Waters. Previously, Erin served for 14 years as Executive Director of the University of Minnesota Southeast Regional Sustainable Development Partnership. She has over 20 years of experience and training in sustainable agriculture, local food systems, food access, natural resource conservation, clean energy, community engagement and development, and…

Use the links below to access the Green Lands Blue Waters Continuous Living Cover Manual. This manual was originally produced in 2015 with support from a North Central Region SARE Professional Development Program grant (NCR-SARE-PDP) by Jane Grimsbo Jewett and Sadie Schroeder. Full Continuous Living Cover Manual (248 pages, opens in new browser tab) CLC Manual…

Getting CLC on the landscape is a multi-faceted endeavor involving research, education, extension, market and supply chain development, policy initiatives, and active collaborations that engage partners across sectors – farmers, landowners, businesses, agencies, nonprofits, policymakers, and so on. This page connects you to a number of resources to use and build upon to make CLC…

GLBW Network Priorities To realize the full potential and myriad benefits of CLC farming, it must be practiced widely across the agricultural landscape. GLBW has identified these priorities as a roadmap for multiple stakeholders (“We” below) to achieve landscape-scale change in the Upper Midwest. 1. Expand CLC crop and systems development and research We continue…

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…

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