Juicing Cover Crops... Are you Nuts? Maybe, but hear me out.

The juice probably would ferment if left more than a week? Do you have any info or references on how long vegetable waste should ferment before using it as fertilizer?

Great initiative. Keep going!

Nice video Eric. You are getting really good at making these.

I bought a small screw juicer that I used on different cover crops about 10 years ago. The difference in the extracts from the different cover crops was quite striking - the juice from buckwheat was very different from the rest. I did some analysis of Brix, but it never went anywhere. I finally turned the juicer back to WSU surplus. I never thought of using it on a large scale. Very interesting idea. I wonder what the glucosinolate-isothiocyanate effect of the mustard juice was on the soil?

Sounds like a great idea.

Eric, if the residues are removed, does that reduce the soil-building benefit of growing the cover crop in the first place?

Isn't this what korean farmers do? I think they leave the juice ferment. Which I think would happen que quickly in California anyway. What's your view on the fermentation of the juice and nutrient bioavalability? Koreans seem to think that it makes them more so.