Get the knowledge
you need
We provide a wealth of experience and resources to help you choose the right cover crop strategy for your context.
Get the right seed
at the right time
With over 100 different cover crops, endless mix combinations, and shipping to all 50 states, we can meet your needs.
Get planting
and regenerate your soil
Cover crops build healthy soil by preventing erosion, growing soil biology, cycling nutrients, and increasing soil carbon.
4th Annual Southeast Kansas
Soil Health Conference
November 29-30, 2023
At Green Cover in Iola, KS
Faith Based, Farmer Built, Family Owned
Green Cover sprouted in 2008, when brothers Keith and Brian Berns experimented with cover crops on their family farm. They observed and experienced how diverse cover crop mixes leverage the biological processes that God designed into creation and Green Cover was launched to make cover crop seed available to other farmers.
Today, Green Cover is still family owned and operated. We grow, clean, mix, and deliver cover crop seed directly to agricultural producers across the United States and Canada.
Our purpose is to help people regenerate, steward, and share God’s creation for future generations.
Cover crops build healthy soil
when you follow the Six Principles of Soil Health
Principle: Keep the Soil Covered
Cover crops protect the soil
Bare soil is vulnerable to erosion, water loss, and temperature extremes. By keeping it covered with growing plants and the residue they leave behind, you’ll protect the soil against erosion and insulate it from severe heat and cold.
Principle: Living Roots as Often As Possible
Cover crops help you maintain a living root in the soil
Life recruits life. Keeping living roots in the ground keeps your microbiology fed and flourishing.
Principle: Maximize Biodiversity
Cover crops enable you to maximize diversity
By adding multiple plant species, you get a diversity of roots, blooms, nutrients and you have a more resilient crop than any single species.
Principle: Minimize Soil Disturbance
Cover crops can help reduce soil disturbance
When incorporated into a no-till system, cover crops build soil structure and suppress weeds, reducing the need for tillage and chemicals.
Principle: Integrate Livestock
Cover crops provide forage for livestock integration
Integrating livestock naturally fertilizes the ground and feeds beneficial microbes. Using cover crops as forage gets livestock into row crop fields, mimicking the soil building buffalo herds of the Great Plains.
Principle: Know Your Context
In order to truly regenerate your soil, you have to know your context
At Green Cover, we’ll help you choose a cover crop solution that matches your context and your goals.
Who we are
Our purpose is to help people regenerate, steward, and share God’s creation.
We’ve been delivering cover crop seed, designing custom mixes, and providing soil health educational resources for over 15 years.
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