A new study from South Dakota State University reveals reductions in tillage intensity have led to an increase in soil ...

When you think of improving the soil, you may imagine planting cover crops or utilizing minimal tillage systems that allow ...

The UC Master Gardeners of Butte County are part of the University of California Cooperative Extension system, serving our ...

After a few days, the prepared compost heap will get hot and when opened up can release steam. As the waste materials decompose, they release nutrients in forms that can be used by crops ...

Many of us enjoy the outdoors, gardening or even tending to a small farm. But today, we feel the heat — literally — of climate change. It’s a global problem, and we often wonder how we can make a ...

Organic farming starts and ends with a healthy living soil. Organic farming methods aim to achieve and maintain a healthy living soil and organic pest and disease management relies on a ...

The less intensively you manage the soil, the better the soil can function. Such as not ploughing as often or using more grass-clover mixtures as ...

Soil health hinges more on how agricultural land is managed than whether the farming system is organic or conventional, according to a new study ...

It can be organic (pine straw, bark, wood chips, leaves) or inorganic (black plastic, landscape fabric, synthetic pine straw, gravel). Its purpose is to cover the soil, look nice, help control ...