This podcast was funded by the Climate Agri-Solutions Fund. Funding for the Climate Agri-Solutions Fund has been provided by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada through the Agricultural Climate Solutions – On-Farm Climate Action Fund.

This episode, a focus on cover cropping north of the 60th parallel, where long days and short growing seasons limit the applicability of the standard advice about cover cropping that was developed for farmers much further south.

We’ll learn how the unique climatic and growing conditions in the north influence which benefits of cover cropping to prioritize and which species to plant, and the limitations to and challenges of growing a cover crop successfully.

You’re going to hear from two people in this episode: an Alaska-based soil scientist and a Yukon-based veggie grower.

Caley Gasch is a research assistant professor at University of Alaska Faribanks. She leads a research program focused on soil ecology, plant-soil interactions, how soils respond to environmental change and how we can build and maintain healthy soils.

Sarah Ouellette grows mixed veggies at Sarah's Harvest, 50km north of Whitehorse.