The project's objectives are to explore the potential environmental and socioeconomic benefits of incorporating cover crops – both winter covers and perennials – into the Delmarva Region’s agricultural cash crop rotation in order to serve as an additional cellulosic feedstock for anaerobic digesters. The work will assess the potential for an agro-economy in which perennial and/or winter crops are grown by underserved farmers to sequester carbon, reduce nutrient leaching/runoff, and produce a salable harvest and valuable co-digestion feedstock for poultry litter anaerobic digestion (AD). The AD systems will generate renewable energy from the feedstock and return the digested solids back to the fields. The work will also explore the difference in greenhouse gas emissions between traditional poultry litter management practices and the new system incorporating AD.