Tuesday, November 19 – Wednesday, November 20, 2019 Graduate Hotel, Minneapolis, MN Over, Under, Through to CLC Strong partners, new allies, and fresh perspectives moving continuous living cover (CLC) farming forward. View our detailed agenda here! View our summary agenda here!
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…
Non-operator landowner behavior change; a shared discussion among nonprofits and researchers May 14-15, 2019 Minneapolis, MN This is a hidden web page that includes information about and resources for our meeting. Thanks for being part of the conversation! Full Meeting Packet. Meeting Packet is here: final_meeting_packet_nol_convening_2019 Includes agenda, logistics and attendee list. Our top research…
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…
2019 GLBW CONFERENCE Saint Paul, Minnesota – November 18-19, 2019 FOURTH INTERNATIONAL KERNZA CONFERENCE Madison, Wisconsin – July 1-2, 2019 2017 GLBW CONFERENCE Madison, Wisconsin – November -29, 2017 2016 GLBW CONFERENCE Columbia Missouri – November 29-30, 2016
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…
