{"id":196,"date":"2026-03-20T22:49:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T22:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/commhort\/?p=196"},"modified":"2026-03-21T00:36:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T00:36:42","slug":"farmers-and-their-innovative-cover-cropping-techniques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/commhort\/farmers-and-their-innovative-cover-cropping-techniques\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmers and Their Innovative Cover Cropping Techniques | 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This 70-minute educational video features 10 vegetable farmers in 5 Northeastern states demonstrating and describing a variety of cover cropping techniques including rye, wheat, oats and\/or hairy vetch as winter covers; winter rye for strawberry mulch; field peas as a spring cover; hairy vetch and rye strips grown between crops; soil spader for incorporating cover crops; permanent ground cover for wheel tracks; living mulch between plastic mulch; buckwheat, Japanese millet, and Sudex as summer smother crops; long term rotations with cover crops and leaf mulch; white clover strips between crops; and, no-till cover crops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Farmers and their Innovative Cover Cropping Techniques | 2005\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ay0E4hQ20Qs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This 70-minute educational video features 10 vegetable farmers in 5 Northeastern states demonstrating and describing a variety of cover cropping techniques including rye, wheat, oats and\/or hairy vetch as winter covers; winter rye for strawberry mulch; field peas as a spring cover; hairy vetch and rye strips grown between crops; soil spader for incorporating cover &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/commhort\/farmers-and-their-innovative-cover-cropping-techniques\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Farmers and Their Innovative Cover Cropping Techniques | 2005&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4505,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crop-production","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/commhort\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/commhort\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/commhort\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/commhort\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4505"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/commhort\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/commhort\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/commhort\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/commhort\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/commhort\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/commhort\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}