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This book renders the tool of crop rotation and its close relative, cover cropping, understandable and available for reducing crop pests and disease and building soil's nutrient level, balance and general health.  It's also a planning tool that releases financial benefits and allows better use of a farmer's time.  Kroek clarifies the theory and practice by grouping crops according to not just plant family, but also time of planting, time to maturity, nutrient needs and other parameters. Crop Rotation and Cover Cropping gives examples of relatively simple 6-unit rotations, along with more detailed and complex 12- and 24-unit examples.  Seth Kroek has been working and managing organic farms in the Northeast and California for the past eight years. He is currently working his own farm, Crystal Spring Community Farm in Brunswick, ME. with his wife, Maura, and their son Griffin.  Part of a series of handbooks on organic principles and practices published by NOFA, by Seth Kroeck, 2004.  88 pp.