Cover Crops & Earthworms

How many earthworms per shovelful does your crop field, pasture or garden contain?

Come along as we check out 2 cover crop fields this spring.....the health of the cover crops, are there differences when we use manure to establish cover crops, and how many earthworms per shovelful can we expect.

Earthworms are a great indicator of soil health and what's occurring under the soil surface. So often we don't make time to dig in our soils. Today we went digging.....and share with you several great observations!

So join us for this short video as we dig a little to find out a lot!

Thanks & Choose to make it a great day!
- Lance Klessig
Regenerative Agriculture Advocate

[backwoodbasics]

More great content. Keep it up! I am not a farmer, but we are serious gardeners. Here in northern Minnesota, our gardens run on chopped leaves. Our soil tester is a digging fork. If worms are abundant, we have all we need for our crop. By the way, I mentioned you in a Letter to the Editor in this week's Minnesota Outdoor News. It's the letter written by Mark Schultz (me), about Regenerative farming. Hope you don't mind.

[EcoRestorationCommunities]

Great content! If you manage and enhance the health of your earthworms, they will help you manage the health of your soil! -Ben

[blakeweber]

I am in SW Missouri, we are in our 2nd year of cover crops and no till. We are seeing earthworms occasionally, you just about can’t even get a shovel into the ground. Our soil is very hard and rocky

[connormccormick]

Lance do you think it could ever be a problem to have too many earth worms?