Green Cover Podcast

This week's podcast guests are Blake and Stephanie Alexandre, founders of Alexandre Family Farm, a pioneering Regenerative Organic Certified dairy and pastured egg operation in northwestern California. Over the years, they transitioned their farm to regenerative organic practices, becoming leaders in soil health, animal welfare, and quality dairy production. In this conversation, they share their personal journey, the values behind their adoption of regenerative practices, and how telling their farm’s story has helped them connect with like-minded consumers who believe in the power of food grown in harmony with nature.You can learn more about Alexandre Family Farms here: https://alexandrefamilyfarm.comAlexandre Family Farms products can be found in grocery stores across the United States. Find their products near you: https://alexandrefamilyfarm.com/pages/store-locator

In this episode of the Green Cover Podcast, Keith Berns is joined by Matt Powers, a permaculture and soil health educator whose journey into organic and regenerative food systems began after his wife’s cancer diagnosis. Matt describes how such a life altering event catalyzed his inquiry into food and soil. Since then, Matt has written over 24 books, developed courses, and taught thousands about the vital links between soil biology, plant health, and human well-being.Together, Keith and Matt explore Matt’s unconventional path from professional musician to regenerative educator, the importance of humility, and the role of innovative microscopy techniques in understanding soil health. They also discuss the value of community, the significance of regenerative entrepreneurship, and how education empowers people to create lasting change.Attend Matt's upcoming free online conference, R-Soil on October 1st-5th 2025. https://matt-powers.mykajabi.com/r-soilCheck out Matt's books and courses: https://matt-powers.mykajabi.com/

In this episode of the Green Cover Podcast, Keith Berns sits down with Clint Cox, a seasoned farmer from Long Island, Kansas. They explore Clint’s extensive journey, from growing up on a no-till farm to eventually running his own operation, where his ambitions led him to integrate cover crops and reintroduce livestock. Along the way, his experiences taught him the critical role that biological diversity plays in building a resilient system. Clint shares his trials and successes in boosting soil health, combating pests naturally, and minimizing synthetic inputs. Tune in to learn how Clint is innovating on his operation and paving a path for future generations.If you love our podcast, dive into our other great resources like the Soil Health Resource Guide: ⁠https://greencover.com/freeguides/At Green Cover, we grow, clean, mix, and deliver the highest quality cover crop seed directly to agricultural producers across the United States.Our faith-based company is built by farmers, family-owned and united in our purpose to help farmers regenerate, steward and share God's creation for future generations.We'd love to provide you with excellent quality seed, expert cover crop advice, and a custom seed blend designed to meet your goals for your field.Contact our expert sales team at (402) 469-6784 or info@greencover.com Or visit us online at ⁠https://greencover.com⁠Build your own custom mix at ⁠https://smartmix.greencoverseed.com

In this episode of the Green Cover podcast Benina Montes shares the farm's journey from traditional dairy farming to diverse regenerative organic practices, including growing almonds, walnuts, olives, chickens, and sheep. She discusses their strategies for improving soil health, water conservation, and pest management without synthetic chemicals. The conversation highlights the importance of educating the community, sharing practices, and advocating for agricultural policies that support sustainable farming. The episode also emphasizes the significance of nutrient-dense food and the efforts in marketing and selling these products directly to consumers.You can purchase Burroughs Family Farm's organic almonds, almond butters and other products directly from their website: https://burroughsfamilyfarms.com/If you love our podcast, dive into our other great resources like the Soil Health Resource Guide: ⁠https://greencover.com/freeguides/At Green Cover, we grow, clean, mix, and deliver the highest quality cover crop seed directly to agricultural producers across the United States.Our faith-based company is built by farmers, family-owned and united in our purpose to help farmers regenerate, steward and share God's creation for future generations.We'd love to provide you with excellent quality seed, expert cover crop advice, and a custom seed blend designed to meet your goals for your field.Contact our expert sales team at (402) 469-6784 or info@greencover.com Or visit us online at ⁠https://greencover.com⁠Build your own custom mix at ⁠https://smartmix.greencoverseed.com

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 systems, and support ethical, nutrient-rich wildlife populations. The conversation highlights how regenerative food plot design can help landowners become better stewards while creating thriving ecosystems above and below ground.Shop Food Plot seed here: https://store.greencover.com/collecti...Learn more from Dr. Grant Woods at the Growing Deer TV YouTube page:    / @growingdeertv  If you love our podcast, dive into our other great resources like the Soil Health Resource Guide: ⁠https://greencover.com/freeguides/At Green Cover, we grow, clean, mix, and deliver the highest quality cover crop seed directly to agricultural producers across the United States.Our faith-based company is built by farmers, family-owned and united in our purpose to help farmers regenerate, steward and share God's creation for future generations.We'd love to provide you with excellent quality seed, expert cover crop advice, and a custom seed blend designed to meet your goals for your field.Contact our expert sales team at (402) 469-6784 or info@greencover.com Or visit us online at ⁠https://greencover.com⁠Build your own custom mix at ⁠https://smartmix.greencoverseed.com

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 and environmental benefits of integrating cover crops into agricultural systems. Whether you have livestock or not, discover how you can make cover crops work for you and improve profitability on the farm. Don't miss out on Tyler's insights into regenerative agriculture, community relationships, and maximizing return on investment. Find Tyler on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JTACFarmsIf you love our podcast, dive into our other great resources like the Soil Health Resource Guide: ⁠https://greencover.com/freeguides/At Green Cover, we grow, clean, mix, and deliver the highest quality cover crop seed directly to agricultural producers across the United States.Our faith-based company is built by farmers, family-owned and united in our purpose to help farmers regenerate, steward and share God's creation for future generations.We'd love to provide you with excellent quality seed, expert cover crop advice, and a custom seed blend designed to meet your goals for your field.Contact our expert sales team at (402) 469-6784 or info@greencover.comOr visit us online at ⁠https://greencover.com⁠Build your own custom mix at ⁠https://smartmix.greencoverseed.com

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, regain vision lost to diabetes, and even achieve remission from cancer. Erin explains how this model not only transforms the lives of those who participate but also creates reliable markets for small-scale farmers and stimulates the local economy. Learn more about Erin’s amazing work at https://www.freshrxok.org/ and https://consciousagingsolutions.com/g... If you love our podcast, dive into our other great resources like the Soil Health Resource Guide: ⁠https://greencover.com/freeguides/At Green Cover, we grow, clean, mix, and deliver the highest quality cover crop seed directly to agricultural producers across the United States.Our faith-based company is built by farmers, family-owned and united in our purpose to help farmers regenerate, steward and share God's creation for future generations.We'd love to provide you with excellent quality seed, expert cover crop advice, and a custom seed blend designed to meet your goals for your field.Contact our expert sales team at (402) 469-6784 or info@greencover.comOr visit us online at ⁠https://greencover.com⁠Build your own custom mix at ⁠https://smartmix.greencoverseed.com

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 about his extensive experience with corn interseeding, utilizing 60-inch rows and grazing his cover crop after corn harvest. If you love our podcast, dive into our other great resources like the Soil Health Resource Guide: ⁠https://greencover.com/freeguides/At Green Cover, we grow, clean, mix, and deliver the highest quality cover crop seed directly to agricultural producers across the United States.Our faith-based company is built by farmers, family-owned and united in our purpose to help farmers regenerate, steward and share God's creation for future generations.We'd love to provide you with excellent quality seed, expert cover crop advice, and a custom seed blend designed to meet your goals for your field.Contact our expert sales team at (402) 469-6784 or info@greencover.comOr visit us online at ⁠https://greencover.com⁠Build your own custom mix at ⁠https://smartmix.greencoverseed.com

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, effective management strategies, and the importance of soil fertility and cover crops. Want to learn more from Dale? Check out his book, 'Managing Pastures' or visit his website to learn more about his consulting services. https://www.regenerativewisdom.com/dale-strickler-bioIf you love our podcast, dive into our other great resources like the Soil Health Resource Guide: ⁠https://greencover.com/freeguides/At Green Cover, we grow, clean, mix, and deliver the highest quality cover crop seed directly to agricultural producers across the United States.Our faith-based company is built by farmers, family-owned and united in our purpose to help farmers regenerate, steward and share God's creation for future generations.We'd love to provide you with excellent quality seed, expert cover crop advice, and a custom seed blend designed to meet your goals for your field.Contact our expert sales team at (402) 469-6784 or info@greencover.comOr visit us online at ⁠https://greencover.com⁠Build your own custom mix at ⁠https://smartmix.greencoverseed.com

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 embodying the core value of integrity and seeking to partake in reciprocal relationships with those around us. Plus, John shares exciting news about AEA’s Fall Festival.Stay tuned and save the date for Advancing Eco Agriculture's Fall Festival on September 11th and 12th!What if there was an event that truly embodied regenerative farming?An event that brought together the brightest minds in regen ag from around the globe...Where you could dive into cutting-edge science and practical techniques to take back to your farm...Built for farmers—not for the companies trying to sell to them...And featuring incredible local, organic food to nourish the body and the soil.Yeah, that sounds like a great idea.Let’s make it happen.Stayed Tuned...September 11th & 12th, 2025Listen to the Regenerative Agriculture Podcast: https://regenerativeagriculturepodcast.com/If you love our podcast, dive into our other great resources like the Soil Health Resource Guide: ⁠https://greencover.com/freeguides/At Green Cover, we grow, clean, mix, and deliver the highest quality cover crop seed directly to agricultural producers across the United States.Our faith-based company is built by farmers, family-owned and united in our purpose to help farmers regenerate, steward and share God's creation for future generations.We'd love to provide you with excellent quality seed, expert cover crop advice, and a custom seed blend designed to meet your goals for your field.Contact our expert sales team at (402) 469-6784 or info@greencover.com Or visit us online at ⁠https://greencover.com⁠Build your own custom mix at ⁠https://smartmix.greencoverseed.com

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 Network, exploring topics like interseeding cover crops, timing of seeding, and optimizing crop populations. The episode concludes with advice for farmers starting on the path to regeneration, underscoring the value of persistence, experimentation, and collaboration.

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, profitability. Together, Nicole and Keith explore the ripple effects of regenerative land management—how one person’s transformation can catalyze change across an entire community when it’s rooted in curiosity rather than superiority. They also dive into the importance of locally grounded coaches, farmer-to-farmer storytelling, and Nicole’s work training agroecologists to support farmers through this transformational journey.Join us for an upcoming soil health workshop with Nicole in Nebraska on June 3–4 that promises to get your hands dirty, your mind engaged, and your heart inspired.Register for the workshop: https://greencover.com/event/nexus-in...Learn more about Nicole's CREATE program: https://integritysoils.com/pages/crea...Buy Nicole's book, For The Love of Soil: https://integritysoils.com/products/f...If you love our podcast, dive into our other great resources like the Soil Health Resource Guide: ⁠https://greencover.com/freeguides/At Green Cover, we grow, clean, mix, and deliver the highest quality cover crop seed directly to agricultural producers across the United States.Our faith-based company is built by farmers, family-owned and united in our purpose to help farmers regenerate, steward and share God's creation for future generations.We'd love to provide you with excellent quality seed, expert cover crop advice, and a custom seed blend designed to meet your goals for your field.Contact our expert sales team at (402) 469-6784 or info@greencover.com Or visit us online at ⁠https://greencover.com⁠Build your own custom mix at ⁠https://smartmix.greencoverseed.com

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 math, Kipp figured that he could actually make more profit raising livestock than growing a corn crop in the Cornhusker state. In just five years Kipp has gone from full conventional row-crop production with zero livestock to a 100% focus on rearing and finishing grass-fed and finished beef and lamb on cover crop forages.Learn more about Kipp Hinrichs's farm operation: https://www.onceuponaprairie.com/If you love our podcast, dive into our other great resources like the Soil Health Resource Guide: ⁠https://greencover.com/freeguides/At Green Cover, we grow, clean, mix, and deliver the highest quality cover crop seed directly to agricultural producers across the United States.Our faith-based company is built by farmers, family-owned and united in our purpose to help farmers regenerate, steward and share God's creation for future generations.We'd love to provide you with excellent quality seed, expert cover crop advice, and a custom seed blend designed to meet your goals for your field.Contact our expert sales team at (402) 469-6784 or info@greencover.com Or visit us online at ⁠https://greencover.com⁠Build your own custom mix at ⁠https://smartmix.greencoverseed.com

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 understand the diversity of life in our soils. You won’t want to miss this excellent and riveting conversation!

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 soil, his mindset, and his mission. From the moment a one-inch rain exposed the damage of tillage to the spiritual and ecological awakening that followed, Rick’s story is one of humility, experimentation, and deep commitment to human and soil health.Whether you're just starting with cover crops or building your tenth cocktail mix, this conversation will challenge and inspire you to see diversity — and your farm — in a whole new way.Looking to get your own custom mix? Try our Smartmix Calculator: https://smartmix.greencoverseed.com/

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 can benefit, and what the future holds for nutrient-dense food production. Tune in for an inspiring conversation about the power of diversity, stewardship, and collaboration in agriculture.Links:Understanding Ag: https://understandingag.com/Soil Health Academy: https://soilhealthacademy.org/Regenified: https://regenified.com/If you love our pdocast, dive into our other great resources like the Soil Health Resource Guide: https://greencover.com/freeguidesAt Green Cover, we grow, clean, mix, and deliver the highest quality cover crop seed directly to agricultural producers across the United States.Our faith-based company is built by farmers, family-owned and united in our purpose to help farmers regenerate, steward and share God's creation for future generations.We'd love to provide you with excellent quality seed, expert cover crop advice, and a custom seed blend designed to meet your goals for your field.Contact our expert sales team at (402) 469-6784 or info@greencover.com Or visit us online at https://greencover.comBuild your own custom mix at https://smartmix.greencoverseed.com