Stewardship & Sustainability

One of our key focuses at Walnut Grove Farms is sustainability. We are continually finding and implementing new and better ways to be stewards of the land we farm.

Some of those practices include:
- Zone soil sampling
- Variable rate seeding
- Adding nutrients using precision technology that allows us to vary the application rate. That means fertilizers get applied precisely where they’re going to be used by our plants, reducing unused nutrients and preserving water quality across the watersheds that encompass our farms.
- Continuous no-till helps hold moisture and maintain organic matter in the soil, improving soil health.

We have been working in a joint effort for the last thirty-plus years with the University of Kentucky and the Kentucky Small Grain Growers Association to bring added commercial value to cover crops, which are a critical tool in sustaining good soil health. More recently, we have taken a role in the research and development of rye as a commercial cover crop with additional support from the DendriFund, Brown-Forman and American Farmland Trust. You can learn more about those efforts on the DendriFund website.