HMI’s Online Learning Series Getting Started Holistic Cropping Planning course had 5 participants from the United States and Denmark. This course focused on giving participants the tools to grow healthy crops, healthy soil, and healthy profits. In this course participants learned how to effectively manage their cropland and cropping practices to increase soil fertility and resilience as well as increase production and profitability from their cropping practices. They learned how to complete crop production planning all in the context of regenerative and conservation agriculture. This curriculum was developed with input from master farmers and educators and explains key cropping concepts such as no-till, cover cropping, cocktail seeding, mulching, intercropping, shelterbelts, perennial crops, and integrating livestock. This course provided numerous planning worksheets and templates as well examples of completed worksheets and a long list of multi-media resources for further study.
Thanks to Simply Organic for their funding of scholarships for HMI's training programs focused on grazing and cropping practices.