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 ...

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 ...

Beneath the urban landscapes of California lies a diverse ecosystem, teeming with invertebrates and microbes. Soil acts as a carbon sink, filters water and provides essential nutrients to plants.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(MENAFN- GetNews) Expansive soil is a highly plastic clay rich in strongly hydrophilic clay minerals, characterized by volumetric changes under moisture variation. During wetting and drying cycles, ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — A $3 million groundwater protection and soil health initiative has been rolled out to Olmsted County farm operators through the Olmsted County Soil and Water Conservation District.