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Sawyer Farm Reduced-Till Perennial Clover Trials
Over the past several seasons, farmers at Sawyer have been experimenting with different ways to plant row crops into perennial white clover and reduce tillage using a series of innovative practices. Join Sawyer Farm’s Lincoln Fishman for a close look at transplanter shoe adaptations designed to reduce soil disturbance and weed competition in perennial clover and cash crop production. Berkshire Conservation District will also display their no-till drill seeder, which is available for rentals and can be used for mixed or single species applications from clovers and orchard grass to rye and soybeans.
This in-person workshop will be followed with an on-farm networking opportunity. The workshop will take a close look at the system and the research underway with UMass through a SARE Partnership Grant, and is part of CISA’s 2023 Adapt Your Farm to Climate Change Webinar and Workshop Series: On-farm Climate Change Adaptation Case Studies from western Massachusetts.
Presenter: Sawyer Farm is in Worthington, MA. Lincoln, Hilary, Erica, and Butch have been growing vegetables at Sawyer since 2010.
This is an in-person event at Sawyer Farm, 19 Sawyer Rd, Worthington, MA
Contact Stephen Taranto, CISA Climate Program Coordinator, at stephen@buylocalfood.org or 413-665-7100 ext. 17 with any questions.