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COVER CROPS<br />
Top 10 reasons to plant in the fall<br />
BY LOGAN HAWKES<br />
Contributing Writer<br />
REGENERATIVE FARMING IS a term that literally has its roots dating<br />
far into farming's history. The principles it promotes have been<br />
around almost as long as farmers have been tending the soil.<br />
Cover crops, perhaps the backbone of “regenerative farming,”<br />
were used extensively by the Greeks and Romans and by Native<br />
Americans who developed a system they referred to as the `Three<br />
Sisters,' where corn, beans and squash were grown together to<br />
maintain soil health.<br />
The ancient Maya of Central America were said to have rotated<br />
crop varieties between raised earthen platforms, including plants that<br />
fortified soils, while the ancient Chinese discovered they could repeat-<br />
edly plant rice on rice on rice by maintaining nutrients in their soils.<br />
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