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Videos & Presentations

What are we watching and learning about soil health?

 Adaptive Challenges - A Soil, Conservation, and Place Supplement

 

A Grass-Roots Movement For Healthy Soil Spreads Among Farmers

 

USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service – The Science of Soil Health video series

 

Benefits of No-till Farming

 

Changing The Way We Think About Soil Microbes

 

Compaction

 

Cycle, Re-cycle, Repeat

 

Discover the Cover

 

Dynamic Cropping Systems

 

Fighting Plant Disease with Microbes

 

Flail Mowing Cover Crops at Potomac Vegetable Farms

 

Getting a Handle on Mineralizable N in Soils

 

Growing Money and Soil at Potomac Vegetable Farms

 

Hay Mulch for Vegetables and Soil at Potomac Vegetable Farms

 

How Healthy Soil Should Look

 

Intensive Composting at Potomac Vegetable Farms

 

Natural Systems and Weeds

 

Nature's Way of Extracting Minerals from Soil

 

Nightcrawlers and Soil Water Flow

 

Overseeding Cover Crops into Fall Vegetables at Potomac Vegetable Farms

 

Soil Feeds Plants, and Vice Versa

 

Soil Spading for Gentle Tillage at Potomac Vegetable Farms

 

Soil Stability Test

 

Systems in Agroecology

 

Understanding the Value of Legumes and Nitrogen-Fixing Microbes

 

Using Cover Crops to Soak up Nutrients for the Next Crop

 

Using Insects to Manage Pests

 

The “Vacation Year” Cover Crop Rotation at Potomac Vegetable Farms

 

What Happens When You Till?

 

Without Carrot or Stick

 

USDA-NRCS East National Technology Support Team. 2012. Under Cover Farmers - Featured Length

 

Brown, G. 2014. Grazing Cover Crops and Benefits for Livestock Operations. Presentation at the USDA-SARE National Conference on Cover Crops and Soil Health.

 

Organic No-Till Farming - This video features Dr. Kathleen Delate of Iowa State University with funding from USDA-NIFA, USDA Agricultural Research Service, The Rodale Institute, The Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, and CERES.

 

USDA NRCS Webinar Portal

 

Starting with Soil at Waterpenny Farm

 

No-Till Vegetable Experiments at Fauquier Education Farm

 

Fine-Tuning Fertility at Potomac Vegetable Farms

 

Experiments with No-Till Cover Crops at Potomac Vegetable Farms

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