Green Manure Crops

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PHOTO: MOTHER EARTH NEWS STAFF
After only two years of green manure cropping, Ecology Action's gardens were transformed from barren ground to the verdancy shown here.

Garden magic from John Jeavons and Bill Bruneau.

Green manuring — growing green manure crops especially for their
organic matter and ability to improve the soil — can
dramatically build up poor and exhausted soils and maintain

  • Published on Sep 1, 1986
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