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  • Adaptation Practices

    Managing Cover Crops Profitably

    September 4, 2025 • SARE

    This book explains is one of the best resources to help growers learn how to use cover crops reduce erosion, improve soil health, suppress weeds, manage nutrients, and increase farm profitability over time.

  • Planning, Adaptation Practices, Climate Impacts

    Multifunctional Buffers: Design Guidelines for Buffers, Corridors, and Greenways

    January 8, 2026 • Gary Bentrup and Xinyuan Shi • USDA Forest Service

    Illustrated design guidelines for multifunctional buffers are synthesized and developed from a review of 1,900+ research publications. These guidelines are presented as easy-to-understand rules of thumb for facilitating the planning and designing of multifunctional buffers.

  • Adaptation Practices

    New England Vegetable Management Guide

    December 19, 2025 • Lisa McKeag, Genevieve Higgins, Maria Gannett, Artie Siller, Alicyn Smart, Ann Hazelrigg, Angela Madeiras, Gabriella Maia, Amber Vinchesi-Vahl, Kelsey Fisher, Shuresh Ghimire, Nick Goltz, Leanne Pundt, Peyton Ginakes, David T. Handley, Mark Hutton, Jason Lilley, Nicholas Rowley, Susan Scheufele, Heather Bryant, Wendy Johnecheck, Renuka Mathur, Olivia Saunders, and Becky Maden • University of Connecticut, University of Maine, University of Massachusetts, University of New Hampshire, University of Vermont, and Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station

    The New England Vegetable Management Guide contains a wealth of information about vegetable production including general cultural practices and crop specific recommendations. Updated with new varieties and chemical label information every two years.

  • Adaptation Practices, Planning

    Nutrient Tracking Tool (NTT)

    November 21, 2019 • Texas Institute for Applied Environmental Research

    NTT is a web-based tool to estimate nutrient and sediment losses under different management scenarios at field or watershed scales. Users define and compare scenarios for a given area of interest to estimate NPK losses, erosion, and crop yields.

  • Adaptation Practices

    Practical Approaches to Establishing No-Till Systems: Reflections from Winter Street Farm

    September 4, 2025 • Caro Roszell • NOFA/Mass

    An article on a small-farm's approach to no-till practices, including tarping, mulching paths and beds, intercropping, use of plastic mulch and weed mats, flail mowing, and more.

  • Adaptation Practices

    Raising Soil Organic Matter Content to Improve Water Holding Capacity

    November 21, 2025 • Jehangir H. Bhadha, Jay M. Capasso, Raju Khatiwada, Stewart Swanson, and Christopher LaBorde • University of Florida IFAS Extension

    This publication explains how increased soil health and organic matter content help retain moisture to aid during droughty periods. It also discusses soil health management strategies to improve organic matter content.

  • Adaptation Practices, Climate Impacts

    Regenerative Farming at Freedom Food Farm with Chuck Currie

    November 20, 2025 • NOFA/Mass

    This workshop covers regenerative systems used at Freedom Food Farm: no-till crops, livestock integration, rotational grazing, biodiversity, soil preservation, input reduction, and more! From the 2020 NOFA Summer Conference

  • Adaptation Practices

    Rhode Island's Changing Climate Creates New Opportunities for Summer Cover Crops

    September 4, 2025

    Explores the use of summer cover crops like teff and Japanese millet to fill growing gaps created by shifting planting and harvest dates in Rhode Island.

  • Planning, Adaptation Practices

    Soil Health Decision Tool (Corn and Soy)

    December 26, 2025 • Natasha Paris • University of Wisconsin-Madison

    When considering soil health practices for row crop farmers it's essentially to understand how each practice can alter the farm's bottom line. This decision making tool helps corn and soy producers simulate the financial impacts of adopting different soil health practices.

  • Adaptation Practices

    Soil Health Indicators and Tests

    December 19, 2025 • Barbara Bellows, Mike Morris, and Colin Mitchell • ATTRA Sustainable Agriculture

    Soil Health Indicators and Tests discusses different methods of soil health assessment and provides an overview of soil biology.

  • Adaptation Practices

    Soil Health: Evolution, Assessment, and Future Opportunities

    December 19, 2025 • Douglas L. Karlen • Soil and Water Conservation Society

    This article covers the history context and development of the concept of soil health within soil science. It is part of a larger collection called "Soil and Water Conservation" which includes in-depth chapters on conservation science.

  • Adaptation Practices

    Toolkit: How to Reduce Synthetic Fertilizer Use

    September 4, 2025 • ATTRA Sustainable Agriculture

    Publications, tipsheets, and videos to help farmers use cover crops, green manures, and alternative soil amendments to reduce synethetic inputs and increased self-reliance.

  • Adaptation Practices

    Using Cover Crops to Direct the Soil Microbiome

    September 4, 2025 • Heidi Reed, Sjoerd Willem Duiker, Sarah Richards, Kara Reardon, Terrence Bell, and Estelle Couradeau • PennState Extension

    This article discusses how cover crops have the potential to boost key aspects of the soil microbiome typically associated with healthy soils.

  • Adaptation Practices

    Willow Run Farmstead case study

    January 6, 2026 • Katherine Holcomb • Willow Hill Farmstead

    This beautiful case study profiles Deanne Boyer and Willow Run Farmstead LLC, located in Berks Co. Pennsylvania. The resource details the climate risks faced by Willow Run, and how Deanne has skillfully addressed them through agroforestry practices.