Practical experiences implementing Living Mulches in arable and horticultural farming systems

The Organic Research Centre have been running the Living Mulches project for the past three years to trial the integration of white clover, as a perennial cover crop, into a cash crop rotations through direct drilling. Welcome and introduction by ORC’s Julia Cooper. 2:39 Project updates & review of soil health data from Green Acres 2023 and how this compares with previous years results.   12:15 Matt England speaks about the living mulch systems he is trialling on the Fring Estate in Norfolk   39:00 David Newman explains how he is integrating living mulch systems in his growing operations at Bucksum market garden   A discussion followed with participants to share their current challenges with living mulches and to identify gaps that needs to be addressed to aid successfully adoption of living mulches.