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Soil Health Field Walk: Crimson & Clover Farm
July 17, 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Join Crimson Clover Farm and American Farmland Trust for a field walk exploring innovative approaches to tillage reduction on organic farms. Farmer Nathan Frigard will showcase three tillage reduction and soil health trials: zone-tilling and planting crops into established dutch white clover living mulch, growing teff as a living mulch between tomato beds, and the use of intensive cover crop successions for organic matter/residue building. Nathan will provide a farm tour, stopping at each trial plot to discuss the operations involved and any initial soil health, weed suppression, and crop performance observations. We will round out the afternoon with an informal farmer-to-farmer Q&A and discussion.
Speaker: Nate Frigard co-founded Crimson & Clover Farm in 2011 with a mission to provide quality products, build healthy soils, and create a vibrant community farm where folks could come to not just pick up their CSA vegetables but also walk the land, pick strawberries, and flowers, see their neighbors, and learn where their food came from. For Nate, farming has always been about more than just growing great food but also building connections with nature and among people.
Location: 215 Spring St, Florence, MA 01062