{"id":123335,"date":"2022-10-31T16:42:23","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T16:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/2022\/10\/31\/cover-crops-make-farming-fun-again\/"},"modified":"2022-10-31T16:42:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T16:42:23","slug":"cover-crops-make-farming-fun-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/cover-crops-make-farming-fun-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Crops Make Farming Fun Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edward Faulkner\u2019s <em>Plowman\u2019s Folly<\/em> was first published in 1943, on the heels of the Dust Bowl. 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