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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…

THEME: OVER, UNDER, THROUGH to CLC – strong partners, new allies, and fresh perspectives moving continuous living cover (CLC) farming forward. The way we farm can be the solution to big challenges – climate, water, wildlife, vibrant rural communities. Attendees at our previous GLBW conference dug deep into robust discussions, highlighting major barriers to increasing CLC across the…

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…

If your work intersects with ours now or could in the future, please email us at glbw@umn.edu and describe what you would like to explore together. The GLBW Theory of Change is that through thoughtfully-designed, highly-engaged collaborations with agricultural practitioners across the region and across sectors – new, creative channels of policy, program, and market…

GLBW is a coalition — a network — of many partners working to get Continuous Living Cover on the land. The GLBW network is conducting essential research, improving the genetics of old and new crops, translating knowledge into CLC farming systems, developing new extension and outreach capacity, working in farm fields, shaping policy, building profitable…

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…