During the first part of the Trinity Creek Ranch Soil Health Field Day, attendees took a closer look at regenerating soils. The ranch is following five principles for soil health: keeping soil covered, minimizing disturbances, using plant diversity, keeping a living root in the soil all year and integrating livestock. “Conventional agriculture has really taken the diversity out of systems. Typically, we’ve not been farming with nature, but against nature,” explains Mikayla Tabert, farmer, Trinity Creek Ranch. “That’s what we’ve been learning the most; how we can work with nature by adding diversity.” The group also emphasized the importance of water storage and management in local soils with a slope test and rainfall simulator. The Soil Health Partnership will be working with Trinity Creek Ranch for five years to evaluate the economics of using cover crops.
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