Spring field walk at Riverland Farm

Let’s talk about interseeded clover as a way to maximize cover cropping on vegetable farms!

Join us — American Farmland Trust, Emily Landeck of Riverland Farm, Ash Loehr of Hurricane Flats, and Lincoln Fishman of Sawyer Farm—  for a spring field walk.

As vegetable growers in New England, short growing seasons and high land prices make it challenging to fit in cover crops. This is particularly a true for crops harvested late into the fall, like brassicas.  Brussels sprouts from Riverland are locally famous, and Emily has been having luck interseeding dutch white clover into recently established Brussels sprouts.  Let’s walk out and take a look at the results this spring!

If you have experience interseeding cover crops into late summer crops, we hope you’ll join us for a good conversation to share both successes and failures. Or if you are curious to learn more about the technique, come and learn!

• Date: April 29th, 2024 from 3 to 5 pm
• Address: Riverland Farm, 211 River Rd, Sunderland, MA 01375
• Parking: Please park along the road by the Riverland Farm sign

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Emily Landeck recently became Director of Farm Programs at Hampshire College Farm and operates Riverland Farm in Sunderland.  She has been working on adding cover crops to a tight vegetable rotation while producing beautiful organic vegetables for regional wholesale markets.

Lincoln Fishman and Ash Loehr will join us for the conversation.  Lincoln has been developing systems for reducing tillage by utilizing dutch white clover, and recently co-founded Momentum Ag, an organization dedicated to on-farm research to help farmers implement and optimize climate-smart innovations.  Ash has a lot of experience interseeding cover crops at Hurricane Flats in South Royalton, VT where they grow organic vegetables, culinary herbs, and popcorn, for sale at their farm store and local markets.

QUESTIONS?  Contact Julie Fine at American Farmland Trust, jfine@farmland.org, 413-531-0425