Uploaded September 2016 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Natalie Lounsbury (University of New Hampshire) discusses how to manage cover crops for such ecosystem services as: suppressing weeds, attracting pollinators, cycling nutrients, promoting biological diversity and controlling erosion.
This session was part of Cover Crops for Soil Health, a three-day professional development workshop hosted by Northeast SARE and Delaware State University in March 2016. More information about the event, including all session recordings and slide presentations, is at sare.org/cover-crops-training.
Find more practical information about cover crops at sare.org/cover-crops.
About the Speaker
Natalie Lounsbury is a PhD student at the University of New Hampshire and a part-time vegetable farmer in Maine. Prior to moving back to New England, she received her M.S. at the University of Maryland where she studied cover crops and reduced tillage in vegetable production systems.
Natalie Lounsbury (University of New Hampshire) discusses how to manage cover crops for such ecosystem services as: suppressing weeds, attracting pollinators, cycling nutrients, promoting biological diversity and controlling erosion.
This session was part of Cover Crops for Soil Health, a three-day professional development workshop hosted by Northeast SARE and Delaware State University in March 2016. More information about the event, including all session recordings and slide presentations, is at sare.org/cover-crops-training.
Find more practical information about cover crops at sare.org/cover-crops.
About the Speaker
Natalie Lounsbury is a PhD student at the University of New Hampshire and a part-time vegetable farmer in Maine. Prior to moving back to New England, she received her M.S. at the University of Maryland where she studied cover crops and reduced tillage in vegetable production systems.
