Teaching Organic Farming & Gardening

Tillage & Cultivation

Part 1 – 92 | Unit 1.2

Appendix 5 (cont.): Field-Scale Tillage & Planting

Implements

Appendix 5: Field-Scale Tillage & Planting Implements

Illustration by José Miguel Mayo

Mechanical Spader: A primary tillage implement used to incorporate cover crop and crop residue.

Spaders operate at a very slow speed and perform deep tillage (14+ inches) without soil inversion to

create a similar effect on soil as double digging.