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Your Yard, Your Salad or Both?

UMD Digs Into Edible Cover Crops

Cover crops are planted to protect and replenish soil over the winter—and you can eat some of them as well. The Institute of Applied Agriculture used edible cover crops in the University of Maryland Community Learning Garden.

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