The annual Trinity Creek Ranch Soil Health Field Day featured a diversified cattle and crop operation near Red Lake Falls. Trinity Creek Ranch owner David Miller started raising cover crops in 2012 with one field to graze cattle. Seven years later, the family is integrating more cover crops into the system. Miller says a more tolerant, resilient soil is the result. “The end goal is a legacy; to improve the soil, leave the farm in better shape than I got it. That’s not to say my father didn’t do a good job, but he didn’t have the tools we have now,” he says. “It’s really changed. We have a good opportunity and want to take advantage of it.” In the afternoon, attendees walked fields, starting with corn interseeded with a cover crop mix including sunn hemp, flax, cereal rye, faba beans and more. The second field featured sunflowers interseeded with flax, buckwheat and kale. Other fields featured rye and soybeans. Cattle will graze some of the fields. Listen to the story.