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title: "Your Yard, Your Salad or Both?"
date: 2018-08-09T10:00:00-04:00
author: University of Maryland
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# Your Yard, Your Salad or Both?

*August 9, 2018* — by [Maryland Today Staff](/author/maryland-today-staff)


> UMD Digs Into Edible Cover Crops

[Your Yard, Your Salad or Both?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW5uor7zdPI)



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.


**Topics:** [Research](https://today.umd.edu/tags/research)


**Tags:** [Research](https://today.umd.edu/topic/research)


**Units:** [College of Agriculture and Natural Resources](https://today.umd.edu/topic/college-agriculture-and-natural-resources)