Editorial – Continuous living cover: Adaptive strategies for putting regenerative agriculture into practice.
Academic Article
Overview
Overview
Abstract
Continuous Living Cover (CLC) is a term used to describe agricultural systems that include year-round vegetative cover above ground and living roots below ground. Examples of CLC include agroforestry, perennial biomass, perennial forages and grazing lands, perennial grains, and systems of summer and winter annuals and cover crops managed to maximize soil coverage (Jewett and Schroeder, 2015; Chrisman et al., 2021). Continuous Living Cover offers a framework for studying and implementing agricultural strategies that keep land in production while maintaining or enhancing soil and water quality in the long term. These strategies promote a diversified agricultural landscape and can be combined in myriad ways to help farmers achieve both economic and environmental goals.
