We’re standing at the season’s peak, looking down. Garlic harvest has begun. Spring greens are about to be plowed under. Summer fruits are ripening, and winter storage crops are coming along. Now we begin the descent towards fall. 

Ordinarily, July is when I start drafting the field map for the following year. As cash crops exit the fields, cover crops go in, and what varieties to plant where depends on next year’s field map. In that regard, the cash crop-cover crop rotation is a chicken-or-the-egg scenario. But what to plant with no cash crops on the horizon? That’s a scenario I’ve never faced. Read more...