Cascina Romanengo Farm
This is one of the most diversified sites and also includes a landscape element through existing tree/hedgerow cover. Soil-health practices include monitoring and strengthening tree cover, winter cover crops, diversified rotations, residue retention and reduced disturbance. The crops are sunflower (food/oilseed), rye (food/feed), grain landraces (food), millet (food/feed niche) and buckwheat (food).
Carbon farming practices implemented
05 - Increasing hedgerow or field boundary tree cover
15 - Cover cropping introduction or improvement
16 - Improved crop rotations
21 - Reduced soil disturbance (ranging from reduce/ minimum tillage to no-till in cropland)
Soil and biomass sampling
Farm activities
Soil cultivation practices
Crops:
- Cover crop
- Cowpea
- Maize
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