Regenerative agriculture is an educational journey. Farmers who embrace these practices spend their days gathering information, testing new ideas, and learning from both their victories and their setbacks. This pursuit of knowledge sometimes takes us deep into the fascinating world of plant-microbe partnerships and nutrient cycling. Other times, we're in the field experimenting with complex intercropping systems or testing 15-species cover crop cocktails. But in the midst of all this learning and innovation, there's real value in returning to the fundamentals.
That's why we launched our Cover Crop Basics webinar series in 2025. Each session focused on core principles—the kind of foundational knowledge that makes everything else work. We've now turned those webinars into a collection of articles, compiled here for easy reference.
Whether you're planting your first cover crop or you've been at this for decades, we hope these articles serve as a practical resource. Sometimes the best way forward is to make sure we've got the basics right.
If you'd like to watch recordings of the webinar series, you can find them at greencover.com/cover-crop-basics.
We also wrote a book called Cover Crops 101 that goes into even more detail about the basics of cover cropping.
You can get access to the free digital version or order a physical copy at greencover.com/cover-crops-101.
