*Global CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE*
*for sustainable agriculture and land management*
Dear Subscribers,
Please see herebelow a message from Didi Pershouse regarding a *Diverse
Cover Crop Webinar with Keith Berns & Didi Pershouse, May 7th, 2020.*
Apologies for any cross-posting.
Thank you Didi for sharing.
*Amir Kassam *
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*Global CA-CoP*
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*Conservation Agriculture is an ecosystem approach to regenerative
sustainable agriculture and land management based on the practical
application of context-specific and locally adapted three interlinked
principles of: (i) Continuous no or minimum mechanical soil disturbance
(no-till seeding/planting and weeding, and minimum soil disturbance with
all other farm operations including harvesting); (ii) permanent
maintenance of soil mulch cover (crop biomass, stubble and cover crops);
and (iii) diversification of cropping system (economically, environmentally
and socially adapted rotations and/or sequences and/or associations
involving annuals and/or perennials, including legumes and cover crops),
along with other complementary good agricultural production and land
management practices. *
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From: Didi Pershouse <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sun, 3 May 2020 at 00:17
Subject: Diverse Cover Crop Webinar with Keith Berns & Didi Pershouse, May
7th
To: Amir <[log in to unmask]>
This Thursday at 11 AM Eastern...Resilience from the Ground Up
*
<https://didipershouse.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6075151f49894b2c63289a22a&id=61dac9ce90&e=7906f4d8e3>Didi
Pershouse*
*Author • Soil Sponge Strategist • Educator*
*Founder of the Land & Leadership Initiative*
*Author of The Ecology of Care
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and Understanding Soil Health and Watershed Function
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*Hello friends, *
I know many of you are planting your farms and gardens right now, and I
wanted to let you know that* this Thursday, May 7th*, cover-crop guru Keith
Berns and I are offering a *free webinar on the benefits of diverse cover
cropping.* This is not just a farming issue, diversity in cropping systems
has beneficial impacts on life, right up the food chain. Scroll down for a
longer description of our webinar...
...and stay tuned for* a mini-course coming up soon* that I will be
co-teaching with* Fred Provenza*, the author of *Nourishment: What Animals
Can Teach Us About Rediscovering Our Nutritional Wisdom
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* Fred is Professor Emeritus of Behavioral Ecology in the Department of
Wildland Resources at Utah State University. While there, he directed an
award-winning research group that pioneered an understanding of how
learning influences foraging behavior and how behavior links soils and
plants with herbivores and humans. Fred and I got to know each other's work
while we were both teaching at Gail Fuller's Field School in Kansas
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last year.
Okay...back to this week's webinar with Keith! (Whom I also met at
Gail's...it's *the* place to be, if you can get there from here, which you
can't..obviously...that's one of many reasons I'm looking forward to the
end of this pandemic.)
*RESILIENCY FROM THE GROUND UP: *
HOW DIVERSE COVER CROPPING CAN PROFIT YOUR FARM AND COMMUNITY
Thursday, May 7th, 11 AM Eastern (USA)
How do we address the extinction of so many bird, insect, and animal
species at once? Why are researchers finding that a mixture of plants often
performs better than a monoculture of the best performing plant in the mix?
What makes a landscape resilient to flooding and drought? How do we deal
with increasing pressures from insect pests?
*Join Keith Berns and Didi Pershouse, two respected voices in the Soil
Health movement, to learn why diverse cover cropping is key to resilient
communities--both above and below ground. *
The beneficial outcomes from diverse cover cropping defy “common sense,”
and the practice runs contrary to how most of us were taught to farm
(though Nature has been trying to teach us for millennia!). The secret lies
in each plant species having unique liquid-carbon root exudates that
provide a balanced diet of energy, proteins, and other nutrients to the
soil's microbial population, allowing the soil’s functional microbiome to
increase and diversify dramatically...with benefits right up the food
chain.
Plants that are surrounded by healthy, abundant microbial communities are
more drought-tolerant and better supplied with plant nutrients, making the
plants (and those who eat them) more resistant to disease. All this
microbial activity also improves soil structure, which improves the
function of the whole watershed/catchment by offering underground water
storage. Plant diversity reduces insect pressure on plants, by attracting
beneficial insects and birds, keeping the circle of life going. Come learn
about all this and more, and join in the discussion.
*Diversity is a powerful force for people as well.* Human communities
benefit greatly from a diverse agricultural landscape, and from diversity
in our food, farmers, and friendships. Here’s a chance to diversify your
education by joining us for this interactive webinar!
Even if you are not a farmer, or are relatively new to the concept of cover
cropping, you are welcome to attend.
*This webinar is offered for free, but we encourage people to donate
towards the work of the Land & Leadership Initiative to make more of these
offerings possible. When: Thursday, May 7, 2020 at 11:00 AM EST*
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*Keith Berns *combines over 20 years of no-till farming with 10 years of
teaching Agriculture and Computers. In addition to no-tilling 2,500 acres
of irrigated and dryland corn, soybeans, rye, triticale, peas, sunflowers,
and buckwheat in South Central Nebraska, he also co-owns and operates Green
Cover Seed
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one of the major cover crop seed educators and providers in the United
States.
Through Green Cover Seed, Keith has experimented with over 100 different
cover crop types, and hundreds of mixes, planted into various situations
and has learned a great deal about cover crop growth, nitrogen fixation,
moisture usage, and grazing utilization of cover crops. Keith was honored
by the White House as a 2016 Champion of Change for Sustainable and
Climate-Smart Agriculture. Keith also developed the SmartMix CalculatorTM
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one of the most widely used cover-crop selection tools on the internet.
Keith has a Masters Degree in Agricultural Education from the University of
Nebraska and teaches on cover crops and soil health more than 30 times per
year to various groups and audiences. Keith was also recently appointed
by Nebraska Governor Pete Rickets to be the chairman of the Nebraska
Healthy Soils Task Force
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.
*Didi Pershouse *is the author of The Ecology of Care: Medicine,
Agriculture, Money, and the Quiet Power of Human and Microbial Communities
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and Understanding Soil Health and Watershed Function
<https://didipershouse.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6075151f49894b2c63289a22a&id=e11663e986&e=7906f4d8e3>.
She is a lead author for the "Future Directions" chapter of the UN-FAO
Technical Manual on Soil Organic Carbon Management, and a contributing
author for Health in the Anthropocene
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.
Didi brings conservatives and liberals together into effective working
groups with common goals: improving soil health, public health, water
security, and regional resilience through simple changes in land
management. Both online and in-person, her participatory workshops engage
farmers and ranchers, policy makers, investors, and scientists in systems
thinking and deep listening, to allow for emergent strategies. She was one
of five speakers at the United Nations-FAO World Soil Day
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in 2017.
She is the founder of the Land and Leadership Initiative
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and the Center for Sustainable Medicine, and a co-founder of Regenerate
Earth and the "Can we Rehydrate California?"
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Initiative. She is currently working on projects with the UN-FAO Farmer
Field School program; the Climate Resilient Zero Budget Natural Farming
Initiative in Andhra Pradesh, India; and the No Regrets Initiative. She is
a member of the Vermont State appointed Payment For Ecosystem Services and
Soil Health Working Group
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and is on the board of directors of the Soil Carbon Coalition
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and the Vermont Healthy Soils Coalition
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.
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Hope to see you there. I've written all this while lying on my belly in the
new green grass, watching the bumblebees visiting my daffodils.
Wishing you very well!
Warmly,
*Didi*
PS: In case you missed my last newsletter, click below for my latest short
video, entitled "The Great Work of Our Time."
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All of the Land and Leadership Initiative's past webinars are now available
for FREE (though if you can afford to pay, please do.)
- Case Studies of the Soil Food Web with Dr. Elaine Ingham
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- The Soil Food Web with Dr. Elaine Ingham
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- Walter Jehne & Didi Pershouse on the Soil Carbon Sponge: Structure,
Function, and Formation
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- How a state in India got half a million farmers to adopt Zero Budget
Natural Farming
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- How New Mexico Successfully Passed its Healthy Soil Act
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- Walter Jehne on Hydrological Cooling and the Soil Sponge
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