Milpa Planting
Use Soil Health to Feed Your Neighbors
Use Soil Health to Feed Your Neighbors
Milpa Planting is a project teaching soil health concepts while growing food and building community. The purpose of this project is 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 keep track of pounds harvested and volunteer hours.
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.
We will have updates on our 2022 projects soon!
Our advisor is 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 is funded by a Kansas Department of Agriculture, Division of Conservation, Water Resources(WR) On-Farm Trial grant.
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 keep track of pounds harvested and volunteer hours.
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.
We will have updates on our 2022 projects soon!
Our advisor is 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 is funded by a Kansas Department of Agriculture, Division of Conservation, Water Resources(WR) On-Farm Trial grant.
Who is invited to participate?Everyone! You can grow, harvest, distribute, prepare, consume or promote milpa plantings.
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How can I participate?Sign up on our contributor form below.
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Funding for this project is provided by the KDA Division of Conservation.
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