No matter your feelings about kale, you have to admit this stuff is cute when it is little.  This baby kale is about a week away from planting in the garden.  It is a little late for a fall harvest, we might get some, as kale is very cold hardy, but I’m not expecting much. Mostly I am using it as a cover crop in my rotation.  The bed this is going into had beets, and beets can be rather hard on the soil, they take a lot out of it.  Kale on the other hand is a bit more gentle and adds a lot of biomass at the end of its life.  I can also easily sow micro clover around the kale once it is established to fix nitrogen, keeps weeds down and add biomass as well. Cover crops are not something I have utilized much, but I plan on learning more and making them an integral  part of our farming system.