Peaceful Valley Cover Crop Grazer (lb)

Peaceful Valley Cover Crop Grazer is a diverse cool-season blend created to provide productive ground cover, abundant plant material, and forage potential in a single planting. Combining Frostmaster peas, faba beans, beardless barley, Forerunner triticale, Trophy rapa, and Sub Zero kale, this mix brings together legumes, cereal grains, and broadleaf brassicas with complementary growth habits. The result is a vigorous planting that helps keep soil covered, maintain living roots, build biomass, and add greater plant diversity to pastures, fields, orchards, and other agricultural areas.

The cereal grains provide structure and dependable vegetative growth throughout the stand. Beardless barley establishes readily and contributes fibrous roots and useful biomass, while Forerunner triticale adds vigorous cool-season growth and helps create a dense canopy. Together, these grasses help protect exposed soil, compete with weeds, and contribute organic material when the planting is mowed, grazed, or incorporated.

Frostmaster peas and faba beans add legume diversity and can form beneficial relationships with nitrogen-fixing bacteria when properly inoculated. Trophy rapa and Sub Zero kale complement the grasses and legumes with leafy brassica growth, expanding the mix's forage potential while increasing above- and below-ground plant diversity. The combination creates multiple layers of growth and rooting patterns that make the blend useful for both soil stewardship and seasonal grazing applications.

Use Peaceful Valley Cover Crop Grazer in pastures, rotational grazing areas, fallow fields, orchards, or other sites where productive seasonal vegetation and soil coverage are priorities. Depending on the management goal, the stand can be grazed, mowed, or incorporated as green manure. When soil improvement is the primary objective, terminate or incorporate the planting before mature seed develops to return plant material to the soil and help prepare the area for the next crop.

For more exclusive blends designed for soil building, seasonal ground cover, forage, and diverse planting needs, explore our Peaceful Valley cover crop seed blends.

Key Benefits

• Provides productive cool-season ground cover and forage
• Combines legumes, cereal grains, and brassicas for greater plant diversity
• Produces useful biomass for grazing, mowing, or green manure
• Helps protect exposed soil and reduce erosion
• Helps compete with weeds by occupying open ground
• Maintains diverse living roots during the growing season
• Suitable for pastures, rotational grazing areas, fallow fields, orchards, and other agricultural plantings
• Inoculant: For effective nodulation and nitrogen fixation, treat the pea and faba bean components with Pea Vetch Lentil Inoculant (treats 100 lb). For smaller plantings, use Garden Combination Mix Inoculant (treats 8 lb) or Garden Combination Mix Inoculant (treats 50 lb). Plant promptly after inoculation.

Suggested Planting Guidance

• Application Rate: Drill 60–80 lb per acre; broadcast 75–100 lb per acre.
• Planting Depth: ½–1 inch when the mix is planted together. If using a drill with a separate small-seed box, place the rapa and kale near ½ inch and the larger grains and legumes ¾–1½ inches deep.
• Planting Season: Late summer through early fall for cool-season grazing and cover; early spring is an alternative where fall establishment or overwintering is unreliable.

These are suggested starting rates based on comparable cool-season grain, legume, and brassica mixtures. Adjust for seedbed, equipment, rainfall, climate, and grazing goals.

Contains: Frostmaster Peas, Faba Beans, Beardless Barley, Forerunner Triticale, Trophy Rapa, and Sub Zero Kale