In this episode of the Green Cover Podcast, host Keith Berns welcomes wildlife biologist Dr. Grant Woods to explore how multi-species cover crops in food plots can serve as a powerful tool for both soil regeneration and wildlife management. Dr. Woods shares practical strategies for using cover crops and microbial life to revitalize degraded land, transform conventional food plots into biodiverse systems, and support ethical, nutrient-rich wildlife populations. The conversation highlights how regenerative food plot design can help landowners become better stewards while creating thriving ecosystems above and below ground.Shop Food Plot seed here: https://store.greencover.com/collecti...Learn more from Dr. Grant Woods at the Growing Deer TV YouTube page:    / @growingdeertv  If you love our podcast, dive into our other great resources like the Soil Health Resource Guide: ⁠https://greencover.com/freeguides/At Green Cover, we grow, clean, mix, and deliver the highest quality cover crop seed directly to agricultural producers across the United States.Our faith-based company is built by farmers, family-owned and united in our purpose to help farmers regenerate, steward and share God's creation for future generations.We'd love to provide you with excellent quality seed, expert cover crop advice, and a custom seed blend designed to meet your goals for your field.Contact our expert sales team at (402) 469-6784 or [email protected] Or visit us online at ⁠https://greencover.com⁠Build your own custom mix at ⁠https://smartmix.greencoverseed.com

Join us on the Green Cover Podcast as we dive into the world of regenerative agriculture with Tyler Tobald, a passionate no-till farmer and cover cropper from Glasco, Kansas. In this episode, Tyler shares his intriguing journey from being a bassoon player to an accomplished regenerative farmer. Learn about his innovative practices, the importance of diversity in cover crop blends, and the economic and environmental benefits of integrating cover crops into agricultural systems. Whether you have livestock or not, discover how you can make cover crops work for you and improve profitability on the farm. Don't miss out on Tyler's insights into regenerative agriculture, community relationships, and maximizing return on investment. 

Find Tyler on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JTACFarms

If you love our podcast, dive into our other great resources like the Soil Health Resource Guide: ⁠https://greencover.com/freeguides/At Green Cover, we grow, clean, mix, and deliver the highest quality cover crop seed directly to agricultural producers across the United States.Our faith-based company is built by farmers, family-owned and united in our purpose to help farmers regenerate, steward and share God's creation for future generations.We'd love to provide you with excellent quality seed, expert cover crop advice, and a custom seed blend designed to meet your goals for your field.Contact our expert sales team at (402) 469-6784 or [email protected] visit us online at ⁠https://greencover.com⁠Build your own custom mix at ⁠https://smartmix.greencoverseed.com

This week’s podcast guest, Erin Martin is revolutionizing the way we approach healthcare and spreading the word that healthy aging starts in the soil. Erin shares the story of Fresh RX, a food-as-medicine program that’s healing its patients with nutrient dense food. Working with doctors and local farms, the program has helped participants reverse chronic disease, come off prescription medications, regain vision lost to diabetes, and even achieve remission from cancer. Erin explains how this model not only transforms the lives of those who participate but also creates reliable markets for small-scale farmers and stimulates the local economy. Learn more about Erin’s amazing work at https://www.freshrxok.org/ and https://consciousagingsolutions.com/g... If you love our podcast, dive into our other great resources like the Soil Health Resource Guide: ⁠https://greencover.com/freeguides/At Green Cover, we grow, clean, mix, and deliver the highest quality cover crop seed directly to agricultural producers across the United States.Our faith-based company is built by farmers, family-owned and united in our purpose to help farmers regenerate, steward and share God's creation for future generations.We'd love to provide you with excellent quality seed, expert cover crop advice, and a custom seed blend designed to meet your goals for your field.Contact our expert sales team at (402) 469-6784 or [email protected] visit us online at ⁠https://greencover.com⁠Build your own custom mix at ⁠https://smartmix.greencoverseed.com

Greg Thoren is a regenerative farmer from Illinois whose willingness to learn and innovate has made his farming operation profitable and resilient. In this episode, Greg discusses how he’s growing and marketing nutrient dense grains, his experience with becoming certified with Regenified and how he’s grazing cattle on cover crops and then marketing that beef direct to consumers. Greg also shares about his extensive experience with corn interseeding, utilizing 60-inch rows and grazing his cover crop after corn harvest. If you love our podcast, dive into our other great resources like the Soil Health Resource Guide: ⁠https://greencover.com/freeguides/At Green Cover, we grow, clean, mix, and deliver the highest quality cover crop seed directly to agricultural producers across the United States.Our faith-based company is built by farmers, family-owned and united in our purpose to help farmers regenerate, steward and share God's creation for future generations.We'd love to provide you with excellent quality seed, expert cover crop advice, and a custom seed blend designed to meet your goals for your field.Contact our expert sales team at (402) 469-6784 or [email protected] visit us online at ⁠https://greencover.com⁠Build your own custom mix at ⁠https://smartmix.greencoverseed.com

Description: In this episode of the Green Cover Podcast, we dive into the important topics of prussic acid and nitrate poisoning when grazing cover crop forages. Our guest, Dale Strickler, a former Green Cover team member and renowned author and agronomist, shares his expertise on recognizing and managing these issues. Learn about the conditions that lead to prussic acid and nitrate toxicity, effective management strategies, and the importance of soil fertility and cover crops. Want to learn more from Dale? Check out his book, 'Managing Pastures' or visit his website to learn more about his consulting services. https://www.regenerativewisdom.com/dale-strickler-bioIf you love our podcast, dive into our other great resources like the Soil Health Resource Guide: ⁠https://greencover.com/freeguides/
At Green Cover, we grow, clean, mix, and deliver the highest quality cover crop seed directly to agricultural producers across the United States.
Our faith-based company is built by farmers, family-owned and united in our purpose to help farmers regenerate, steward and share God's creation for future generations.
We'd love to provide you with excellent quality seed, expert cover crop advice, and a custom seed blend designed to meet your goals for your field.
Contact our expert sales team at (402) 469-6784 or [email protected]
Or visit us online at ⁠https://greencover.com⁠
Build your own custom mix at ⁠https://smartmix.greencoverseed.com

What’s the difference between soil health and regenerative agriculture? What does it mean to “be regenerative”? In this episode, Keith and John Kempf discuss what regenerative agriculture really means when we zoom out from practices and start to think about how the regenerative mindset influences the way we show up in the world. Keith and John discuss how we might regenerate entire communities by embodying the core value of integrity and seeking to partake in reciprocal relationships with those around us. Plus, John shares exciting news about AEA’s Fall Festival.Stay tuned and save the date for Advancing Eco Agriculture's Fall Festival on September 11th and 12th!What if there was an event that truly embodied regenerative farming?An event that brought together the brightest minds in regen ag from around the globe...Where you could dive into cutting-edge science and practical techniques to take back to your farm...Built for farmers—not for the companies trying to sell to them...And featuring incredible local, organic food to nourish the body and the soil.Yeah, that sounds like a great idea.Let’s make it happen.Stayed Tuned...September 11th & 12th, 2025Listen to the Regenerative Agriculture Podcast: https://regenerativeagriculturepodcast.com/If you love our podcast, dive into our other great resources like the Soil Health Resource Guide: ⁠https://greencover.com/freeguides/At Green Cover, we grow, clean, mix, and deliver the highest quality cover crop seed directly to agricultural producers across the United States.Our faith-based company is built by farmers, family-owned and united in our purpose to help farmers regenerate, steward and share God's creation for future generations.We'd love to provide you with excellent quality seed, expert cover crop advice, and a custom seed blend designed to meet your goals for your field.Contact our expert sales team at (402) 469-6784 or [email protected] Or visit us online at ⁠https://greencover.com⁠Build your own custom mix at ⁠https://smartmix.greencoverseed.com

Scott Richert, an experienced farmer from central Nebraska is shaking things up on the farm with corn interseeding. In this episode, Scott shares his journey from traditional farming to prioritizing soil health, highlighting the challenges and successes of using cover crops and diverse blends. Scott shares his collaborative research efforts with Jenny Rees Brhel and the Nebraska On-Farm Research Network, exploring topics like interseeding cover crops, timing of seeding, and optimizing crop populations. The episode concludes with advice for farmers starting on the path to regeneration, underscoring the value of persistence, experimentation, and collaboration.

In this episode, world-renowned agroecologist Nicole Masters joins Keith Berns for a powerful conversation on regeneration, humility, and the importance of walking alongside farmers rather than ahead of them. Nicole describes that across the globe, soils are sending us messages and those that are learning how to listen are seeing profound shifts in soil function, and most importantly, profitability. Together, Nicole and Keith explore the ripple effects of regenerative land management—how one person’s transformation can catalyze change across an entire community when it’s rooted in curiosity rather than superiority. They also dive into the importance of locally grounded coaches, farmer-to-farmer storytelling, and Nicole’s work training agroecologists to support farmers through this transformational journey.Join us for an upcoming soil health workshop with Nicole in Nebraska on June 3–4 that promises to get your hands dirty, your mind engaged, and your heart inspired.Register for the workshop: https://greencover.com/event/nexus-in...Learn more about Nicole's CREATE program: https://integritysoils.com/pages/crea...Buy Nicole's book, For The Love of Soil: https://integritysoils.com/products/f...If you love our podcast, dive into our other great resources like the Soil Health Resource Guide: ⁠https://greencover.com/freeguides/At Green Cover, we grow, clean, mix, and deliver the highest quality cover crop seed directly to agricultural producers across the United States.Our faith-based company is built by farmers, family-owned and united in our purpose to help farmers regenerate, steward and share God's creation for future generations.We'd love to provide you with excellent quality seed, expert cover crop advice, and a custom seed blend designed to meet your goals for your field.Contact our expert sales team at (402) 469-6784 or [email protected] Or visit us online at ⁠https://greencover.com⁠Build your own custom mix at ⁠https://smartmix.greencoverseed.com

Kipp Hinrichs started out his farming career doing things the same as everyone else, growing conventional, high yield corn and soybeans on prime, irrigated cropland in south central Nebraska. 2020 brought a lot more down time and Kipp took to “YouTube University” where he came across the teachings of Gabe Brown and other regenerative farmers who were questioning the status quo. After doing the math, Kipp figured that he could actually make more profit raising livestock than growing a corn crop in the Cornhusker state. In just five years Kipp has gone from full conventional row-crop production with zero livestock to a 100% focus on rearing and finishing grass-fed and finished beef and lamb on cover crop forages.

Learn more about Kipp Hinrichs's farm operation: https://www.onceuponaprairie.com/

If you love our podcast, dive into our other great resources like the Soil Health Resource Guide: ⁠https://greencover.com/freeguides/At Green Cover, we grow, clean, mix, and deliver the highest quality cover crop seed directly to agricultural producers across the United States.

Our faith-based company is built by farmers, family-owned and united in our purpose to help farmers regenerate, steward and share God's creation for future generations.We'd love to provide you with excellent quality seed, expert cover crop advice, and a custom seed blend designed to meet your goals for your field.

Contact our expert sales team at (402) 469-6784 or [email protected]

Or visit us online at ⁠https://greencover.com⁠

Build your own custom mix at ⁠https://smartmix.greencoverseed.com

In this episode Keith Berns and Laura Kavanaugh sit down at Union Grove Farm, a regenerative vineyard in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to chat about Laura’s journey from working at the Johnson Space Center to becoming the Chief Science Officer at Advancing Eco Agriculture. Today, Laura is using her background in bioinformatics in groundbreaking research on DNA sequencing to help us better understand the diversity of life in our soils. You won’t want to miss this excellent and riveting conversation!