A gardener took to Reddit to highlight the mind-blowing discovery they made when cleaning out their garden beds.  Posting ...

The farmer and rancher adage “if you take care of machinery, the machinery will take care of you” also applies to soil health. Cassidy Million, the director of ag science at Heliae Agriculture ...

During the Dust Bowl in the 1930s, due to massive disturbance of the soil through over-tilling, the center of the American continent lost 850 million tons of topsoil to the wind. And today, even when ...

"I thought it was a rabbit’s nest at first." Homeowner shares photo after making concerning discovery while digging up ...

Beloved for their late winter flowers, hellebores or Lenten roses produce thick, evergreen foliage in dense mounds reaching ...

New research: synthetic nitrogen destroys soil carbon, ... In this way, some of the carbon gobbled up by those N-enhanced plants stays in the ground and out of the atmosphere.

To hold your ground: • Clear drainage systems such as culverts, diversion ditches, or narrow swales, of debris. Clogged drains are a primary cause of erosion, even without fire damage.

Improve your soil by making biochar in the ground. DIY biochar enhances nutrient availability and also enables soil to retain nutrients longer. Last year, I committed one of the great sins of ...

Thinking of planting a backyard garden in Louisiana? Before you dig, experts say it's critical to know what’s in your soil.

Tiny glass fertilizer beads could keep nutrients in the soil and out of the water By Ben Coxworth. February 24, 2025 ... That glass was then ground into particles ranging from 0.85 to 2 ...

From the ground up: How soil health unlocks greater yields for small-scale farmers In South Africa, over two million smallholder farming households form the backbone of the nation’s food system.

The soil in Kane's community is usually moist clay. But now, it's bone dry, she said. After multiple years of drought, she worries the ground has no moisture left, making it unstable.