Resources
Organic Certificates
Pre-Vail Clover Inoculant (Organic Biomass and Biomass 55OG)
Exceed Clover Inoculant (Annual Clover Mix)
Boots on the Ground
Looking for help to make things happen on your land? We think these folks have great land-stewardship values and can be trusted to help you make the right decisions for your property.
Jones Vineyard Services, LLC, Amity, OR. Provides a variety of vineyard services, including cover crop seeding
Riedman Land Stewardship, McMinnville, OR. Natural resource management service provider specializing in invasive plant control, native habitat restoration, and forest management.
Pongratz Forestry, Eugene, OR. Low impact forestry, habitat restoration, fuels reduction
Cover Crop Info
Managing Cover Crops Profitably, Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE)
Organic Fertilizer and Cover Crop Calculators, Oregon State University Extension
Cover Crops and Soil Health, NRCS
UC Davis Cover Crops Database, UCD Agricultural Sustainability Institute
Ecological Farming Systems
Oregon Bee Project, Collaborations between OSU, ODA, ODF and others
Understanding the Science Behind Climate Smart Agriculture in California, California Alliance with Family Farmers &UCD
Supporting Beneficial Birds and Managing Pest Birds, Wild Farm Alliance
Living on the Land: Providing Habitat for Native Pollinators, Lamson et. al. 2017
Cover Cropping for Pollinators and Beneficial Insects, SARE
Linn Master Gardeners have good pollinator resources, including an online store with bee boxes
Sound Horticulture, Bellingham, WA. Experts in biocontrol programs and organic growing solutions. Ships quickly.
Weed ID
Portland Plant List, City of Portland. Includes extremely useful information about Natives and Noxious Weeds
King County, WA Noxious Weeds List
Weeds of the West, the classic by Tom Whitson, made available online by the University of Wyoming
About Buzz Cover Crop Seeds
Founder Rebecca Sweet was raised in the rolling foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains in California. In her adolescence she moved to ‘America’s Fruit Basket’, the San Joaquin Valley. Here is where she began asking herself:
“Where do the wild things live?”
This question was on her mind when she met her mentor, Dr. Robert Bugg, who began showing her around the many on-farm conservation biology research projects that he was part of in the central valley of California. After obtaining a BS in Environmental Biology from Humboldt State University, Rebecca moved to Oregon for grad school. At Oregon State University she studied cover crops as pathogen suppressants in vegetable systems, but was quickly lured into the subject of viticulture. Under the guidance of plant physiologist and mycorrhizal fungi expert Dr. Paul Schriener, Rebecca completed a Master’s thesis on cover crops in two Willamette Valley Pinot Noir vineyards. Rebecca’s professional experience includes managing 20 acres of organic blueberries, 13 years of sustainable and organic vineyard management, 14 years of inspection work for the LIVE program, and 3 combined years of teaching at OSU, the Southern Oregon Wine Institute and Chemeketa Community College.
Buzz Cover Crop Seeds was born out of a desire to help farms maximize ecological function and agricultural productivity with every cover crop application. We collaborate with Oregon State University and University of Oregon on pollinator research and extension, and are actively engaged in supporting the wine industry.
Member: American Society of Enology and Viticulture, Oregon Winegrower’s Association, Oregon Society of Soil Scientists
