Arid Lands Newsletter--link to home pageNo. 46, Fall/Winter 1999
Tools for Small Farmers

The real dirt: Serge Parre and partner checking crops

Serge Parre and one of his partners, Jenny Rivera, evaluate a leguminous cover crop at their organic farm "Cocorit Horticola" in Obregon, Sonora, Mexico. Use of cover crops, both to shade the soil and to be tilled in as a soil improver, is a widely used technique among organic growers. evaluating cover crops
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