High-tech watering gear keeps breaking down while clay pots just keep working.

Old beats new: Gardeners report traditional irrigation methods like ollas and gravity-fed systems outperform costly smart controllers in reliability and yields. Soil-specific success: Matching ...

Picture a farm or garden, and you're likely to imagine crops planted in rows. Run water between the rows and you have furrow irrigation, one of humanity's oldest methods used to grow food. It's still ...

Thousands of hectares of communal land set aside for smallholder farmers’ use in South Africa are lying fallow because of ...