More Conservation Agriculture

By Sara:

I am continuing to visit the places where our partner organizations are working on conservation agriculture projects, to see what they are doing and how the work is progressing.  Part of my work is to do these visits and give advice and instruction and encouragement.

Here is one example of a field that was half mulched and half not mulched.  You can clearly see how the mulch suppressed the weeds.

This is the youngest resource person in the communities, Justine.  She has been trying several different conservation agriculture practices: mulching, intercropping, and using green manure/cover crops (gm/ccs) by putting small plots of each practice next to the other so she can compare them.

I really love to see the ways that these creative farmers are experimenting with conservation agriculture in their own gardens!