Applicants from historically marginalized and underrepresented backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply. The Forever Green Initiative (FGI; http://www.forevergreen.umn.edu/) at the University of Minnesota is pursuing a unique market-driven strategy for clean water, soil health, and rural economic vitality. The strategy is based on augmenting current crop production systems with economically viable perennial and winter-annual crops. Such continuous-living-cover (CLC) crops and systems enable agriculture to move toward year-round vegetative cover of soil, enhancing production of marketable agricultural commodities while also protecting soil, water, and wildlife and building rural economies. The Forever Green portfolio consists of over 15 perennial and winter-annual crops and c