# Cover crops basics **URL:** https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/cover-crops-basics/745 **Category:** Off Topic **Tags:** cover-crop **Created:** [February 11, 2023, 9:32am UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/cover-crops-basics/745 "2023-02-11T09:32:38Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 33
### Author: ![ThomasPicard](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/goingtoseed.discourse.group/thomaspicard/32/6491_2.png) [@ThomasPicard](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/ThomasPicard) #### Post date: [May 15, 2024, 11:06pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/cover-crops-basics/745/33 "2024-05-15T23:06:42Z")
> [@Geoffrey](#): > > So, I guess next question is you have this system of nature trying to balance itself, and humans trying to harvest carbon. This energy store is eaten, stored or burned. In a system of cover cropping, farming, how can we make sure we remove an equal amount of carbon to the amount which gets sequestered into the soil? How would we know? I’m musing along the lines of sustainability now haha Yep, there are many points realtive to your question in here : [Compost, a Limiting Factor? - #35 by ThomasPicard](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/compost-a-limiting-factor/2160/35) But yes it the overall organic (emission or sequuestration of living C compounds) balance sheet is the most important thing to figure. Agronomoists can measure that, I can’t:-)… --- _[View the full topic](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/cover-crops-basics/745)._