Green Cover Podcast

In this episode of the Green Cover Podcast, host Keith Berns welcomes wildlife biologist Dr. Grant Woods to explore how multi-species cover crops in food plots can serve as a powerful tool for both soil regeneration and wildlife management. Dr. Woods shares practical strategies for using cover crops and microbial life to revitalize degraded land, transform conventional food plots into biodiverse s...

Join us on the Green Cover Podcast as we dive into the world of regenerative agriculture with Tyler Tobald, a passionate no-till farmer and cover cropper from Glasco, Kansas. In this episode, Tyler shares his intriguing journey from being a bassoon player to an accomplished regenerative farmer. Learn about his innovative practices, the importance of diversity in cover crop blends, and the economic...

This week’s podcast guest, Erin Martin is revolutionizing the way we approach healthcare and spreading the word that healthy aging starts in the soil. Erin shares the story of Fresh RX, a food-as-medicine program that’s healing its patients with nutrient dense food. Working with doctors and local farms, the program has helped participants reverse chronic disease, come off prescription medications,...

Greg Thoren is a regenerative farmer from Illinois whose willingness to learn and innovate has made his farming operation profitable and resilient. In this episode, Greg discusses how he’s growing and marketing nutrient dense grains, his experience with becoming certified with Regenified and how he’s grazing cattle on cover crops and then marketing that beef direct to consumers. Greg also shares a...

Description: In this episode of the Green Cover Podcast, we dive into the important topics of prussic acid and nitrate poisoning when grazing cover crop forages. Our guest, Dale Strickler, a former Green Cover team member and renowned author and agronomist, shares his expertise on recognizing and managing these issues. Learn about the conditions that lead to prussic acid and nitrate toxicity, effe...

What’s the difference between soil health and regenerative agriculture? What does it mean to “be regenerative”? In this episode, Keith and John Kempf discuss what regenerative agriculture really means when we zoom out from practices and start to think about how the regenerative mindset influences the way we show up in the world. Keith and John discuss how we might regenerate entire communities by...

Scott Richert, an experienced farmer from central Nebraska is shaking things up on the farm with corn interseeding. In this episode, Scott shares his journey from traditional farming to prioritizing soil health, highlighting the challenges and successes of using cover crops and diverse blends. Scott shares his collaborative research efforts with Jenny Rees Brhel and the Nebraska On-Farm Research N...

In this episode, world-renowned agroecologist Nicole Masters joins Keith Berns for a powerful conversation on regeneration, humility, and the importance of walking alongside farmers rather than ahead of them. Nicole describes that across the globe, soils are sending us messages and those that are learning how to listen are seeing profound shifts in soil function, and most importantly, profitabilit...

Kipp Hinrichs started out his farming career doing things the same as everyone else, growing conventional, high yield corn and soybeans on prime, irrigated cropland in south central Nebraska. 2020 brought a lot more down time and Kipp took to “YouTube University” where he came across the teachings of Gabe Brown and other regenerative farmers who were questioning the status quo. After doing the mat...

In this episode Keith Berns and Laura Kavanaugh sit down at Union Grove Farm, a regenerative vineyard in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to chat about Laura’s journey from working at the Johnson Space Center to becoming the Chief Science Officer at Advancing Eco Agriculture. Today, Laura is using her background in bioinformatics in groundbreaking research on DNA sequencing to help us better understan...

What’s the real secret to regenerative success? In this episode, Indiana farmer Rick Clark shares how he's building organic systems at scale — without tillage, without inputs, and without regret. But the real magic? It’s not just about species diversity, it’s about  plant family diversity . Rick walks us through how rethinking his cover crop mixes — moving beyond rye and radish — transformed his s...

In this episode of the Green Cover Podcast, we sit down with renowned regenerative farmer Gabe Brown to revisit a pivotal moment in 2006 that helped spark the regenerative agriculture movement in the U.S. Learn how a bold idea from a South American expert changed the way we think about cover crops, soil health, and farming systems. We also discuss the rise of the regenerative market, how farmers c...