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Milpa Planting


Use Soil Health to Feed Your Neighbors
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What Can You Do With Milpa?
​The Milpa Planting Project  was a project teaching soil health concepts while growing food and building community. The purpose of this project was to demonstrate soil health benefits while building community connections. Learn more about milpa mix and milpa gardens from Green Cover Seed.

Check out the First Acre Program from Green Cover Seed if you want to work directly with Green Cover Seed. You will get enough seed to plant from 1000 sq. feet up to one acre. You will need to donate at least 50% of the harvested produce with your local food banks, community and neighbors.


A Milpa Project Grower's Panel shared their experiences at our 2023 Annual Meeting! TSNews article here.

2022 plantings: We were so excited to have a milpa planting at Sedgwick County Extension Master Gardeners Demo Garden, a new one-acre milpa planting near Clearwater, Common Ground Producers and Growers, Monteil Farms at Little Stars Therapy, and Garden Plain High School . Pollinator-friendly tips.

We had four plantings in 2021: an irrigated one-acre milpa planting near 
Clearwater, and milpa spots at Friends University, Garden Plain High School, and KANSEL.  Green Cover Seed influenced another almost one-acre milpa planting in the Goddard area.

Our advisor was Ryan Speer of Jacob Farms, NACD Soil Health Champion, who has planted milpa the past four years. Read about him in Green Cover Soil Health Resource Guide, Seventh Edition, Page 42.

The Milpa Planting Project was inspired by a speech by Jimmy Emmons of Oklahoma at the 2017 No-Till On The Plains conference in Wichita, KS.


​The Milpa Planting Project was funded by a Kansas Department of Agriculture, Division of Conservation, Water Resources(WR) On-Farm Trial grant.

Who is invited to participate?

Everyone! Our project has ended, but you can still participate through the Green Cover Seed First Acre Program.

How can I participate?

Our project has ended, but you can still contact us with questions.

    Milpa Planting Question Form

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Funding for this project was provided by the KDA Division of Conservation.
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What can you do with milpa?
Sedgwick County Conservation District
providing resources and experiences to promote conservation of natural resources
 
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11832 West Central, Suite 100
Wichita, KS 67212-5184

(316)721-6127
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  • Home
  • About
    • Annual Meeting
    • Annual Workplan
  • Cost Share
    • NPS - waste systems
    • NPS - well plugging
    • NPS - cover crops - grid sampling
    • WR - on farm practices
    • WRAPS
  • Outreach
    • Public Programs
    • Scholarships
    • Soil Stories Project
    • Milpa Project
    • Contribute
    • Contests
    • Educator Resources
    • Calendar
  • Equipment
  • Blog