Micro-Farm

The kitchen garden at Howell Farm qualifies, in my estimation, as a garden that employs best practices – it uses many of the same techniques found on organic farms, including raised beds, organic compost, cover cropping, and crop rotation, applied on a micro-scale.

To put the garden to bed for the winter, Farmer Rob and Intern Virginia have planted a cover crop – this year it was clover. Clover, in addition to providing ground cover to prevent soil erosion, is one of the best nitrogen fixing plants available.