At bottom, gardening is all about dirt — its care and feeding, its microbes and fungi, bacteria and earthworms. Science has gradually recognized that the soil’s vibrant but delicate food web must be ...

"It’s so cute!" Gardener shares ancient technique to prepare garden for changing seasons: 'Keep pushing on your ... journey' ...

If you’re wondering how to remove grass for a garden, no-till gardening is the best method. It’s easy, eco-friendly, affordable, and really works. That sounds like a bad infomercial, but it’s true.

Mike Nichols, right, and his son, Cody, own and operate a dryland wheat farm in the Horse Heaven Hills of Central Washington. They adopted the no-till farming method about five years ago as a way of ...

Lisa Blazure, soil health coordinator with Stroud Water Research Center, points out night crawler tunnels in the clay soil beneath Penn England Farm’s cornfield topsoil. Night crawlers are essential ...

HAMPTON, Iowa — Long-time Practical Farmers of Iowa members Doug Alert and Margaret Smith have looked at organic no-till planting into cover crops, a system pioneered by Jeff Moyer at the Rodale ...

IDAHO FALLS (AP) | This will be Gordon Gallup's 30th season of no-till planting on his 3,000-acre Ririe farm. Gallup, who grows wheat, barley and alfalfa, said using no-till methods has helped him ...

In response to July 22 letter, “Ban no-till farming to end flooding” and the incredibly false information on no-till farming. No-till farming leaves 90 percent of crop residue covering the soil, ...

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Changing 60 years of farming one way to try the no-till method on his fields doesn't give Marshall wheat grower Boyd Cline second thoughts, but it does give him the willies."I'm not ...

Not only does it kill everything in the soil it ruins the soil structure causing a shift in the aggregate that does not allow for proper water absorption and risks runoff, and limits the space for ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — A focus on sustainability in agriculture was the purpose of a gathering in Wichita this week. No-till on the Plains held its 29th Annual Winter Conference. More than 300 farmers ...