The Regional Agriculture Council (RAC) of the Lower Connecticut River Valley Council of Governments (RiverCOG) through a Department of Agriculture Farm Viability Grant, is creating a no-till and cover crop cost sharing equipment program. The purpose of the project is to expand land farmed in the region using no-till farming practices. By introducing equipment to land not being farmed now or on existing Connecticut farms, the implementation of soil health principles such as organic cover crop and no-till planting can be encouraged.