BEREA, Ky. — Imagine a system with high weed suppression, nearly non-existent erosion, thriving biodiversity, increasing soil carbon and organic matter… a farm with minimal off-farm inputs and healthy, nutrient-dense crops. The no-till systems at Salamander Springs Farm are built around year-round intensive cover cropping.

Join the Organic Association of Kentucky (OAK) on July 26 from 9 a.m. to noon to learn more about Susana Lein’s diverse grain, dried bean, forage and vegetable production — developed over the last few decades and influenced by the seminal work of Japanese rice farmer Masanobu Fukuoka, and Mayan polyculture cornfield practices she learned in Latin America.