The moment the first cool breeze sweeps through your yard, something magical starts happening in the garden. Plants shift gears, colors deepen, and hidden changes unfold beneath the surface—especially ...

Expanding efforts to measure, monitor and protect soil biodiversity around the world will intensify further with the establishment of the Global Soil Biodiversity Observatory, to be led by the Food ...

This decades is our last opportunity to turn the tide on biodiversity loss and the recovery of land and oceans. Palm Beach residents can do the right thing by avoiding pesticides and by adding diverse ...

Drought and heat waves, much like what South Carolina has experienced in the past few weeks, can be damaging to vegetable and landscape gardens. Water, too, can be just as detrimental if plants get ...

New York City’s Clean Soil Bank is turning excavated dirt into a resource for urban farms, while California has secured $7.3 million to preserve 700 acres of farmland. These efforts align with broader ...

ROME, Italy, July 25, 2014 (ENS) – A third of the world’s soils are degraded by erosion, nutrient depletion, acidification, urbanization, and chemical pollution, soil experts at a global conference ...

This newspaper, opening a 2005 investigation into farmland ownership, wrote this: “In Iowa, we’ve always been able to take for granted that the land will provide.” But Donnelle Eller’s exclusive Sept.

Using cover crops after a short-season crop is one way to protect the soil resource. In this Soil Health Minute, Abbey Wick looks at one field where a farmer has recently seeded some cover crops.

Gardeners weary of watering look eagerly forward to autumn. October marks the transition from the invariably dry if variably hot summer into the hopefully wetter winter months. Even before the rains ...

Even when harvest wraps up and the bins are full, the work isn’t done. The choices you make after harvest can make or break next year’s crop, especially when it comes to soil management. Well-managed ...

In one year, the NUTRO TM brand launched its GREATER GROUND program, which has since trained 60 growers in healthy soil practices and announced a $150,000 grant to help a select grower with transition ...