Cover Crops
Here are our lovely cover crops doing their job... This plot of land has been an orchard for 23 years, and it's now on a break before it gets grazed with sheep to kick start the soil biology so that it can become a vineyard. Cover crops manage soil erosion, soil fertility, soil quality, water, weeds, pests, diseases, biodiversity and wildlife. It's thought that intensively managed agricultural soils have lost 50% to 70% of their pre-cultivation carbon, and this loss is partly