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Past Conferences & Events

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

CLC Manual

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…

Making CLC Happen

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…

Landscape Scale Change

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…

Organizational History

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…

Mission & Purpose

The Mission of Green Lands Blue Waters is to support the development of and transition to a new generation of multi-functional agricultural systems in the Upper Mississippi River Basin and adjacent areas that integrate more perennial plants and other Continuous Living Cover into the agricultural landscape. We highlight models of positive agricultural transformation that can…

Faces of CLC

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Continuous Living Cover

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…